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"Stay Classy"
"What's in a name"
"Show me the Money"
"Mo Money Mo Problems"
"Broke Brutha for Life"
100
HDI
What is the Human Development index?
100
The probability at birth of not surviving until a certain age.
What is life expectancy?
100
Used to measure a country´s economic development.
What is GDP or Gross Domestic Product?
100
The result of people in richer countries that consume too many calories each day.
What is an "epidemic of obesity"?
100
The result of not getting enough to eat.
What is chronic malnutrition?
200
Consumption
What measurement do we use to describe how much food, comsumer goods or energy a person or country uses?
200
The percentage of adults that can read and write.
What is the adult literacy rate?
200
Used to show the wealth of a country by taking into account the amount of population it has.
What is GDP per capita.
200
61% of the world consumption of this is concentrated in just seven countries.
What is energy consumption?
200
Contributes to the increase in illness and deaths in LDC.
What is lack of access to safe drinking water?
300
Economic Growth
What is the measurement used to describe the economy of a country?
300
The amount of money necessary to live a good life in a particular country.
What is standard of living?
300
Something that the measurements GDP and GDP per capita fail to take into account.
What the differences are between the rich and poor people of that country?
300
Almost 100% of the population can read and write.
What are the literacy rates of developed countries?
300
In Sub-Saharan Africa, one in sixteen women die from complications during pregnancy or childbirth.
What is maternal health?
400
Income per capita
What is the average income earned each year for a family in a particular country?
400
Life expectancy, adult literacy rates, and standard of living make up this measurement of development indicator.
What is HDI or Human Development Index?
400
To have just enough food, water or basic necessities to survive.
What is living near subsistence levels?
400
38 million children.
What is the approximate number of children in Africa that do not attend primary school?
400
122 million children
What is the number of child labourers in the Asia-Pacific region?
500
Infrastructure and services
How easy can people access services such as hospitals, roads, schools, or energy?
500
Access to safe drinking water and the number of underweight children combine to make this indicator.
What is standard of living?
500
The ability to buy or consume many things, in addition to everything you need for basic survival. Hint-- It´s an "ism"
What is consumerism?
500
Coca Cola opens a factory in Honduras.
What is foreign investment?
500
When a country relies too heavily on exports of raw materials.
What is a reason that a LDC stays a LDC?