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🌐 The Development Gap – GCSE
Geography · GCSE — measuring development, causes of the gap and strategies to reduce it
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In development geography, what does the abbreviation NEE stand for?
Nationally expanding economy
New European economy
Newly emerging economy
Non-exporting economy
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Which three things are combined to calculate the Human Development Index (HDI)?
Infant mortality, trade and debt
Literacy, population and exports
Life expectancy, education and income
Birth rate, death rate and income
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What does infant mortality rate measure?
Babies born each year per 1,000 people
Mothers dying in childbirth per 100,000 births
Babies dying before age 1 per 1,000 live births
Children dying before age 18 per 1,000 people
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A country has a GNI of £60 billion and a population of 20 million. What is its GNI per head?
£1,200
£3,000
£300
£30,000
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Which of these is a historical cause of uneven development?
Falling commodity prices
Colonialism
Being landlocked
Frequent droughts
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What does the Fairtrade scheme guarantee to farmers in LICs?
Government payment of their debts
A minimum price for their crops
Free seeds and fertiliser every year
Tax-free sale of their crops abroad
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Which description best explains microfinance as a development strategy?
Cancelling debts owed by poorer countries
Large loans to governments for big dams
Emergency grants after natural disasters
Small loans to people who cannot borrow from banks
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In Nigeria, which region produces most of the country's oil?
The Jos Plateau
The Sahel in the far north
The Lake Chad basin
The Niger Delta
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Why is HDI often seen as a better measure of development than GNI per head alone?
It shows inequality between rich and poor
It combines social and economic measures
It counts only people living in cities
It is based only on average income
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Tourists pay a foreign-owned hotel chain, so most profits leave the LIC. What is this called?
The multiplier effect
Economic leakage
Debt relief
A trade deficit
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