Geography 3.1
Terms
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- Development
- the process of improving the material conditions of people through the diffusion of knowledge and technology.
- Human Development Index (HDI)
- United Nations measurement of relative levels of development (More or less developed countries)
- Countries in the ___ tend to be more developed.
- Northern Hemisphere
- Variable in computing HDI
- 1.Economic (GDP per capita, types of jobs, raw material and consumer goods). 2. Social (literacy rate, amount of education, health and welfare)-DOUBLED 3. Demographic (life expectancy, IMR, NIR, CBR).
- GDP
- Gross Domestic Product- value of total output of good and services produced in a country per year per capita.
- GPD of MDC, LDC and USA.
- $27.000, $4.000, $40.000.
- Cardagram
- Scale the size of country to reflect some other measurement.
- Primary Sector
- extraction of raw materials, including agriculture, fishing and mining.
- Secondary Sector
- Manufacturing (transforming materials into finished goods).
- Tertiary Sector
- Providing goods and services, including retailing, banking, law, education and government.
- Life expectancy of LDC and MDC.
- 60's;70's-80's
- Infant Mortality of LDC and MDC.
- 6%; 0.5%
- National Increase rate of LDC and MDC.
- 1.5; 0.1
- Crude Birth rate of LDC and MDC.
- 24:100; 11:100
- GNI
- Gross National Income Total amount of goods in a country and outside (TNC)
- International "free" trade
- concentrate resources on developing distinctive local industries to grow exports.
- Rostow's Development Model has __ steps and was based on __, ___ and ___.
- 5;USA, Europe, Japan.
- 1. Traditional Society
- -Primary sector jobs -No trade -No manufactured goods
- 2. Preconditions for Take-off
- -started by a few, local, educated elites. - manufacture local resources -beginning of industrial revolution -exports
- 3. The take-off
- -expansion -economy is not very diverse -can now keep the raw material in the country and begin to manufacture things themselves
- 4.Drive to maturity
- -more technology -skilled laborers -diversify economy
- 5. Age of mass consumption
- -enough wealth to make purchase for pleasure -fuels economic development