Starter quiz
- When we consider intergovernmental organisations, what does U.N. stand for?
- United Nations ✓
- Unified Nature
- Uniform National
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- What is global inequality?
- The unequal distribution of resources within a country
- The unequal distribution of wealth and resources between countries ✓
- The differences in population growth rates between countries
- The differences in political systems around the world
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- Which of the following is a key measure of development?
- Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita ✓
- Biodiversity
- Natural disaster frequency
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- Match the world bank classification of a country's development with its definition.
- LIC - low income countries⇔GNI per capita of $1045 or less ✓
- MIC - medium income countries⇔GNI per capita of more than 12 695 ✓
- HIC - high income countries⇔GNI per capita of more than $12 696 ✓
- How does colonial history contribute to global inequality?
- Colonised countries developed advanced economies during colonial rule
- Colonial powers made political and economic systems that only benefited them ✓
- Colonised countries were more technologically advanced than colonising countries
- Colonialism helped to spread wealth and reduce inequality
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- How does globalisation impact global inequality?
- It has no effect on global inequality
- It reduces inequality by helping all countries grow equally
- It can increase and reduce inequality, depending on access to global markets ✓
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Exit quiz
- Extreme ______ means living on less than $2.15 a day
- 'poverty' ✓
- Globally, how many people live in extreme poverty?
- 1 person in 10 ✓
- 1 person in 100
- 1 person in 1000
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- Rostow’s modernisation theory suggests that international trade is central to economic development, put the steps in the correct order.
- 1⇔Science and technology can increase the productivity of agriculture.
- 2⇔Higher yields enables international trade.
- 3⇔Income from international trade invested in new industry (manufacturing).
- 4⇔Export of goods produced by the manufacturing sector leads to
- 5⇔increased incomes and a higher standard of living
- Which of the below describe Frank's dependency theory?
- The core (developed countries) exploit the periphery ✓
- The periphery exploit the core (developed countries)
- Countries move through five stages of economic development
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Key learning points
- There are different theories that can explain how countries develop over time.
- Rostow's modernisation theory suggests that the introduction of manufacturing causes countries to develop.
- Frank's dependency theory suggests that the development of a core and periphery leads to inequality.
Common misconception
There are more people living in poverty today than there once were.
The share of the global population living in extreme poverty has dramatically fallen in the past decades.
Keywords
Extreme poverty - living on less than $2.15 a day
Modernisation theory - a view that suggests that countries move through five stages of economic development, proposed by Rostow
Manufacturing - the secondary economic sector, involving making goods from raw materials or other manufactured products (for example motor vehicles)
Dependency theory - a socialist view that explains how the core (developed countries) exploit the periphery, proposed by Frank
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