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WorksheetsGCSE Geography: Strategies to reduce the development gap
Total questions: 77
Worksheet time: 1hrs 14mins
What are the strategies to reduce the development gap?
(tick all that apply)
Aid
Debt Relief
Remittances
Industrial development
Micro-finance loans
Non-manufactured products are called (a) products
Primary products are usually unreliable and bad as an economic base. Which ones of these provide reasons as to why?
Over-production
Dependency on the elements
Finite
Import taxes
Industrial development brings about more employment and wealth in what economic sector?
(a)
Industrial development brings about what effect where the economy goes into a cycle of prosperity?
(a)
Between 1952 and and 2012, the percentage of people working in agriculture had dropped by what percent?
(a)
In the same time period, the GDP per capita of China increased from under $1000 to over $ (a)
Industrial development is usually brought on by what other strategy?
(a)
What is the name of businesses that move operations to LICs and NEEs in investment?
(a)
What are some of the reasons for TNC's investing in foreign plants?
Access to wider market
Lower minimum wage (if any)
Reduces need for exports and thus impacts of tariffs
Cheap land
Tax rewards
FDI stands for what?
(a)
Name an NEE that is increasingly involved with FDI?
(a)
How many Chinese businesses have been involved in FDI in Africa?
(a)
The head quarters for the new African Union was funded entirely by China. What was the cost?
(a)
In what country have China built railways?
(a)
What are some disadvantages to tourism in reducing the development gap?
Not a long-term and economically sustainable industry
Questions over environmental cost of global travel
Money does not always end up with local (repatriation)
Growth not felt in parts of a country that do not benefit from tourism
Money often goes into improving local infrastructure
In 2014 the value of the Jamaican tourist industry was what?
(a)
How many people are employed in the Jamaican tourist industry?
(a)
What percentage of the Jamaican economy is made up of tourism?
(a)
How many tourists arrive each year?
(a)
What is the name of the area in which a new port and tourist facilities have been built?
(a)
Name an area of Jamaica where tourism isn't very prevalent
(a)
Environmental concerns can be mitigated against. Name a nature reserve set up to thrive on ecotourism
(a)
What is the name of the tourist hot spot bay?
(a)
What percentage of the Jamaican income from tourism is spent on transport and communication infrastructure?
(a)
What is the name of the new waste treatment plant?
(a)
What type of aid is this?: Aid from one country to another
(a)
What type of aid is this?: Aid given with certain conditions attached
(a)
NGO's are involved in multilateral and what other type of aid?
(a)
Long-term aid is described as always trying to be (a)
What is the name of the dam built in the DRC with US aid?
(a)
The Inga dam is a type of aid in what?
(a)
Aid can be given in two other contexts on the spec. What are they?
political
economic
health
education
communications
How much aid does the UK gov commit as a percentage of total GDP?
(a)
The UK sends most aid to Pakistan. What is the value of our contribution?
(a)
How many people in Pakistan live in poverty?
(a)
The one laptop/child project s funded by which TNC?
(a)
In Rwanda how many laptops have been donated?
(a)
In Rwanda attendance to school has risen from what to practically full?
(a)
What NGO funds Goat aid?
(a)
How many nations are involved in one laptop/child?
(a)
Negatives of aid:
Projects can stop when money runs out and with no local expertise
Aid can be used to put political pressure on other countries
Aid doesn't reach people who really need it
Aid supports access to natural resources
Often doesn't benefit smaller businesses and farmers
Intermediate technology is characterized by being.....
Sustainable
Temporary
Simple to use
Affordable
Appropriate to local economy/environment
What is the name of the hand pump provided to villages in Tanzania?
(a)
Name a village with one of these hand pumps
(a)
Chessa village had previously experienced what percentage of infant deaths linked to diarrhea?
(a)
How deep is the well?
(a)
In what decades were LICs offered huge loans by banks and governments in HICs?
(a)
Is it better economically to pay off interest on loans or invest in country?
Pay loans
Invest
What is the name of this situation in which many LICs are in?
(a)
What is the acronym for countries in deep debt?
(a)
When did the G8 agree to cancel the debts of HIPCs?
(a)
What were the terms that the G8 set in order to cancel debts of HIPCs?
No corruption
Finances are well-managed
Freed up money to be spent on healthcare and reducing poverty
Some money would have to be paid back at no interest
They would have to rely politically on the G8
What does the IMF stand for?
(a)
How many HIPCs were indebted to the IMF before the debt relief program?
(a)
How much debt has been cancelled by the IMF?
(a)
The freed up money allowed Uganda to develop its water grid. How many more now have access to safe drinking water?
(a)
In Tanzania, freed up money invested in the education system has led to a (a) % increase in school attendance. Fill the gap
What are the benefits of Micro-finance loans?
They are small scale so allow individuals to invest in what is needed
They empower people who now have better business opportunity
They have little interest
The loans can be mismanaged
They don't allow large businesses to grow
Name a bank that has been set up to provide micro-finance loans
(a)
When was the bank set up?
(a)
Loans are mostly less than what value?
(a)
How many members are there to the bank?
(a)
How much has the bank lent out in loans in total?
(a)
How much money does the bank lend to Bangladeshi villages so they can buy phones?
(a)
Phones allow for prices to be set competitively in retrospect to other markets. The phone leads to profit within how many days?
(a)
What are the two barriers to free trade?
(a)
Quotas usually apply to (a) products. Fill the gap
Which of these are LIC trading groups?
CARICOM
VEMOA
EU
OPEC
MINT
Fairtrade farmers are (a) a fair price
What percentage of the Fairtrade organisation is made up of farmers?
(a)
What are some of the things that Faritrade ensures?
All farming is sutainable
Farmers receive a crop price that is stable and protected
Part of the price of a crop is reinvested in local community projects
No Fairtrade farmer will go under
All Fairtrade products are the same price as normal products
What is this 'reinvestment into the community called'?
(a)
Fairtrade premiums fund what type of projects?
(a)
How many farmers are part of the fairtrade scheme?
(a)
How many UK companies are involved in purchasing fairtrade products over non-fairtrade?
(a)
In some countries e.g., Uganda and Tanzania- how much of the agricultural sector is owned by Fairtrade farmers via Fairtrade premiums?
(a)
