IB Geography Topic 2 Disparities in Wealth and Development (SL)

2.1 What does GDP stand for?

2.1 What does GNP stand for?

2.1 What does GNI stand for?

2.1 What are the problems with monetary measures?

2.1 What are the 5 stages of economic development according to Rostow's model?

2.1 What three aspects does the HDI look at?

2.1 What is the HDI and how does it work?

2.1 Explain how the Rostow Model attempts to generalise the different stages of development?

2.1 Which jobs does the Quarternary Sector encompass?

2.1 Which are the BRICS countries?

2.1 Which are the MINT countries?

2.1 What is the G20?

2.1 What are considered three important indicators of development?

2.1 What are the widely-regarded economic indicators?

2.1 What are the widely regarded social indicators?

2.1 What are the widely-regarded environmental factors?

2.1 What are the problems and limitations of development indicators?

2.2 Define Absolute poverty

2.2 What is the Brandt line?

2.2 What are the factors causing disparities in wealth?

2.2 What were the origins of debt?

2.2 Why was money available when many LEDCs decolonised and started borrowing money and how did it lock them (in most cases) into the cycle of poverty?

2.2 What are the problems caused by debt?

2.2 What are the general wealth trends in China?

2.2 What are the physical affecting the wealth disparities in China?

2.2 What are the human factors affecting the wealth disparities in China?

2.3 What arguments did Andre Gunder Frank put forawrd for the Dependency Theory?

2.3 Why has the Dependency Theory increased in popularity?

2.3 Outline facts on global life expectancy and disparities within that parameter

2.3 What are the reasons for an increased global life expectancy?

2.3 Despite the global rise in life expectancy, what are the reasons for some regions not experiencing this overall trend?

2.3 What does the World-Systems Theory state?

2.3 What evidence is there for the World Systems Theory?

2.3 When is education particularly vital to a country?

2.3 In which ways can education be measured?

2.3 Why do differences on a nation-scale exist in education?

2.3 State the 8 MDGs

2.3 What are the three main targets of the MDGs?

2.3 Name a fact on the global distribution of income

2.4 What are the five possible solutions to reducing disparities?

2.4 Study EU as trading bloc case study

2.4 What is one of the biggest barriers to free global trade?

2.4 Define Protectionism

2.4 Define Quotas

2.4 What are the benefits of free trade?

2.4 What are the benefits of Protectionism?

2.4 Case Study: Name an example of Protectionism - Banana Wars

Case Study: Incheon Free Economic Zone

2.4 Name one HIPC and explain what a country must do to retain that status?

2.4 Define Multilateral Aid

2.4 Define bilateral aid

2.4 Define SAPs

2.4 What are the advantages of aid?

2.4 What are the disadvantages of aid?

2.4 What is top-down development?

2.4 What is bottum-up development?

2.4 What are the advantages of Remittances and Migration?

2.4 What are the disadvantages of remittances and migration?