Development and quality of life

Questions

1. What does GDP measure?

   • The amount of money a government owes
   • The number of people living in a country
   • The total area of a country's farmland
   • The total value of goods and services a country produces
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   The total value of goods and services a country produces

2. What does life expectancy tell us?

   • The average age of a country's workers
   • The average number of years a person is expected to live
   • The longest age anyone has reached
   • The number of babies born each year
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   The average number of years a person is expected to live

3. What does the literacy rate show?

   • The number of books printed each year
   • The share of people who attend university
   • The share of people who can read and write
   • The share of people who speak two languages
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   The share of people who can read and write

4. GDP per person is found by dividing a country's GDP by its population. (True or false?)

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   True

5. Which three things are combined in the Human Development Index (HDI)?

   • Army size, wealth and land
   • Climate, trade and population
   • Health, education and income
   • Housing, sport and tourism
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   Health, education and income

6. A country with a high GDP always has a high quality of life for everyone. (True or false?)

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   False

7. Why is HDI often seen as a better measure of development than GDP alone?

   • It ignores how long people live
   • It includes health and education as well as income
   • It is measured in a different currency
   • It only counts the richest people
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   It includes health and education as well as income

8. Which is a physical factor that can make development harder for a country?

   • A large school system
   • Frequent natural disasters such as droughts
   • Good roads and railways
   • Many trained doctors
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   Frequent natural disasters such as droughts

9. How can a lack of access to the sea affect a country's development?

   • It can make trade with other countries harder
   • It gives the country more rainfall
   • It guarantees good farmland
   • It makes the country's population grow
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   It can make trade with other countries harder

10. Is a HDI score of 0.9 high or low? (Answer out loud)

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    High (the scale runs from 0 to 1)

11. What is aid?

    • A ban on trading with a country
    • A loan that must be repaid with extra
    • A tax paid on goods that cross borders
    • Help such as money, food or skills given to another country
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    Help such as money, food or skills given to another country

12. What is the main idea of fair trade?

    • Farmers must sell to one buyer only
    • Goods are sold as cheaply as possible
    • Only rich countries may trade
    • Producers are paid a fair price for their goods
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    Producers are paid a fair price for their goods

13. Give one benefit of long-term aid, such as building schools, over emergency food aid. (Answer out loud)

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    It helps a country improve by itself over time

14. Historical factors, such as past colonial rule, can still affect how countries develop today. (True or false?)

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    True

15. Name one reason poorer countries may stay poor when they only export raw materials. (Answer out loud)

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    Raw materials sell for low prices; processed goods earn more

16. Which is an example of a country improving its development through education?

    • Building a new airport only
    • Reducing the number of schools
    • Selling more raw materials unprocessed
    • Training more teachers so more children can read
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    Training more teachers so more children can read

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