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This economic indicator measures the total value of goods and services produced in a country per person.
What is GDP per capita?
This theory argues that development occurs in linear stages from traditional to modern societies and has to follow the same path.
What is modernization theory?
Access to schooling, literacy rates, and years of education fall under this category of development factors.
What are social factors?
This widely used definition describes development that meets present needs without compromising future generations.
What is social sustainability?
This state was given loans by the IMF 16 times which led to an unrecoverable "Debt-Trap"
What is Sri Lanka?
This composite index combines life expectancy, education, and income to assess development.
This theory claims that global inequality is caused by exploitation of peripheral countries by core countries.
What is dependency theory or World Systems Theory
This factor of development includes stability, rule of law, and absence of corruption.
What are political factors?
This type of sustainability focuses on preserving ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources.
What is environmental sustainabiltiy?
China's development initiatives are referred to as this?
What is the Belt and Road Initiative?
Unequal distribution of income within a country is measured using this coefficient.
What is the Gini Coefficient?
This theory promotes free markets, privatization, and reduced government intervention.
What is neoliberalism?
These factors include infrastructure and trade.
What are economic factors?
This theory suggests that sustainbility and capitalism are not compatible?
What is "degrowth"?
This country has been credited with successful development projects due to it's approach to environmental sustainability and committment to education.
What is Costa Rica?
This index measures life expectancy, happiness and environmental impact.
What is the Happy Planet Index (HPI)?
This is the model for development that has been adopted for the years 2015-2030
What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's)?
What are institutional factors?
This approach believes that recycling and renewable energy are key to sustainability?
What is the green growth or circular economy?
This state has often been called the "Singapore of Africa"
What is Rwanda?
This measure of development incorporated Sustainability, Economics and Investments in the future
What is SEDA ?
These are tools used by neoliberalists to "help" states enter the global marketplace.
What are SAP's (Structural Adjustment Programs)?
Debt Traps are MOST associated with which factor of development?
What are institutional factors?
This type of economy is generally considered to be unsustainable.
What is a linear economy?
This state has become the greatest success story in the history of the world due to it's location and a 10 minute video that everyone remembers.
What is Singapore?