ACRONYMS
HDI
What is human development indicator
Life expectancy measures what?
What is the average time a person is expected to live?
The situation in which a person lacks the resources and essentials to enjoy a minimum standard of life.
What is poverty
The organisation that establish a universal document stipulating a code of Human Rights for every country.
What is the UN
This term refers to the attempt to annihilate an entire group of people
What is genocide
NGO
What is Non-Government Organisation
What measures the general health of an economy?
What is Gross Domestic Product
A mutual relationship or connection between two data points
What is correlation?
The recognition that everyone around the world, regardless of geography, age, culture, religion or political environment, aspires to live well. It is measured by combining facts and figures with indicators that have a bearing on people's lives.
What is Human Wellbeing
What is one major factor that impacted on the Wellbeing of Cambodia?
What is:
a) colonisation by the French
b) Khmer Rouge (Pol Pot) regime (genocide)
c) Vietnam war
GNI
Gross National Income
What is a way to see how much an individual or a household earns money?
What is income
When males and females are not treated equally
Gender inequality
A person who flees for safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, economic hardships, war etc
What is a refugee
Name a reason why Rattanakiri has a lower HDI than Phenom Penh?
What is:
a) rural location
b) mountainous country
c) monsoonal climate
UNHRC
What is United National Human Rights Council
How do you measure how well a country's citizens can read or write?
Literacy Rates
Which data can be measured precisely with numbers?
Quantitative Data
The right to this ensures that the government will not eavesdrop on your phone conversations
What is privacy
The average number of education years received by Cambodian children
What is 11 years
GDP
What is Gross Domestic Product
What three measurements combined make up a HDI score?
What is life expectancy, education, and per capita income.
The capacity to use resources so that they are managed and maintained for future use.
What is sustainability
Euro-Centric
Why does Siem Reap have a higher HDI than Rattanakiri and a lower one than Phenom Penh?
Siem Reap is a tourist area which attracts tourist income which assists in supporting the local population and infrastructure. It is also in a more accessible area and access to a water source (Tonle Sap lake).
Rattanakiri = is in a remote and mountainous area that has a lack of infrastructure and resources etc
Phenom Penh= is a capital city that has access to a major river- the Mekong that is used for trade and access to other countries. Also, the city attracts tourists and is easily accessible to other areas. It has well established infrastructure etc.