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What are NEEs? - CORRECT ANSWER-Countries that are currently
experiencing higher rates of economic growth and growth of industry.
What are some examples of NEEs? - CORRECT ANSWER-Brazil / Russia /
China / Indonesia / Nigeria.
What are the MINT countries? - CORRECT ANSWER-Malaysia, Indonesia,
Nigeria and Turkey.
What are the BRICS countries? - CORRECT ANSWER-Brazil, Russia, Indonesia,
China and South Africa.
What does HDI stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER-Human Development Index.
What type of development indicator is GNI? - CORRECT ANSWER-An
economic indicator.
What type of development indicator is HDI? - CORRECT ANSWER-A social
indicator.
,What does HDI measure? - CORRECT ANSWER-Life expectancy, number of
years in education and GNI per head.
What is the range for the HDI scale? - CORRECT ANSWER-0 (the lowest) to 1
(the highest).
What are some examples of countries that are very high on the HDI scale? -
CORRECT ANSWER-- Canada / U.S.A. / Argentina
- U.K. / France / Norway
- Saudi Arabia / Australia / Japan
What are some examples of countries that are high on the HDI scale? -
CORRECT ANSWER-- Brazil / Peru / Mexico
- Russia / China / Iran
- Algeria / Libya / Oman
What are some examples of countries that are medium on the HDI scale? -
CORRECT ANSWER-- Bolivia / Paraguay / Nicaragua
- Egypt / South Africa / Botswana
- India / Mongolia / Indonesia
,What are some examples of countries that are low on the HDI scale? -
CORRECT ANSWER-- Sudan / Nigeria / Mozambique
- Pakistan / Afghanistan / Papua New Guinea
What quality of life measures do GNI and HDI not measure? - CORRECT
ANSWER-- Safety, security and freedom of citizens
- Happiness
- Women's rights and vote
What is birth rate? - CORRECT ANSWER-The number of live babies born per
thousand of the population per year.
What will happen to the birth rate as a country develops? - CORRECT ANSWER-
It will decrease as women will more likely be educated and get a career
rather than marrying earlier and having children.
What is death rate? - CORRECT ANSWER-The number of deaths per thousand
of the population per year.
Why is death rate an unreliable development indicator? - CORRECT ANSWER-
Both HICs and LICs can have high death rates; HICs because of their high
elderly population and LICs because of disease or famines.
, What is infant mortality rate? - CORRECT ANSWER-The number of babies that
die under 1 year old per thousand babies born per year.
What does infant mortality rate indicate? - CORRECT ANSWER-The quality of
the country's healthcare system.
What does doctors per 1,000 people indicate? - CORRECT ANSWER-The
amount of money the country spends of medical services.
What is literacy rate? - CORRECT ANSWER-The percentage of adults that can
read and write.
What does literacy rate indicate? - CORRECT ANSWER-The quality of the
country's education system.
What does a high percentage of the population in access to safe water
indicate? - CORRECT ANSWER-The quality of the country's modern
infrastructure (e.g. dams / water treatment plants).
What factors limit the usefulness of economic and social measures of
development? - CORRECT ANSWER-- Data could be outdated / hard to collect
- Data may be unreliable
- They give an average so don't show regional variations