HDI
What are the 3 factors the UN measures to figure out the Human Development Index?
Social (education), Economic, and Demographic (health)
The UN measures the extent of each country’s gender inequality using what index?
Gender Inequality Index
TRUE or FALSE: Workers in a MDC are more productive than workers in a LDC because they work harder than people in poor countries.
FALSE
What is the path to development called when a country limits international trade and wants to stay in their own economic "bubble".
Self-Sufficiency Path
What does MDC and LDC stand for? Write out the whole answer.
More Developed Country and Less Developed Country
What is process of improving the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology called?
Development
More Gender Inequality
Jobs where the workers process, assemble, and transform the raw materials into consumer goods (factories, processing plants, food processing) are apart of which labor sector?
Secondary
4 Asian countries used the international trade path to become more developed and grew quickly. This gave them the nickname of "The 4 Asian Dragons." What are those 4 countries?
South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
the percentage of a country’s population who can read and write is called what?
Literacy Rate
What region of the world has the MOST developed countries?
Western Europe
What are the 3 categories the UN measures to create the GII?
Health, Empowerment, and Labor
Jobs where the workers directly extract materials from Earth (agriculture, fishing, mining, oil drilling, forestry) are apart of which labor sector?
Primary
What makes it possible for a farmer in a MDC to produce more than a farmer in a LDC? (Theres 2 things just tell me one)
Access to Machines, Tools, or Equipment or Access to technology
A business model that is characterized by worker owned/ run cooperatives and requires employers to pay workers fair wages, and comply with minimum environmental and safety hazards is?
Fair Trade
The value of the total output of goods and services produced only inside of a country is called what?
GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
The measure for the number of women who die during childbirth per 100,000 live births is called what?
MMR (Maternal Mortality Rate)
Jobs where the workers are involved in the provision of goods and services in exchange for payment (retail, banking, law, medical, education, government) are apart of which labor sector?
Tertiary
Which path to development experiences more rapid growth?
International Trade Path
Female empowerment on the GII measures 2 things. What is ONE of them?
1. the percentage of women that complete a high school education.
2. Percentage of women in legislature/hold parliamentary seats
The value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it measures what?
Productivity
TRUE or FALSE: Sub-Sahara African countries will have a higher GII score than countries in Europe.
TRUE
Mrs. Taylor's job as a teacher is apart of which labor sector?
Tertiary Sector
What are the 2 obstacles countries face when trying to become more developed? (must have both)
1. adopting policies that encourage development
2. finding money for development
What is the most developed country on the HDI? Ranked #1.
Switzerland