Development Key Words
Across
- 5. Countries which are developing and industrialising rapidly. They are MICs which are seeing their per capita GNI grow rapidly. Examples include Brazil, India, China, Mexico and Malaysia
- 6. Middle Income Country
- 13. When HICs, and banks in HICs, write‐off some LIC country debt so the LIC has to pay less back
- 14. Any difference between one group of people, or region, and another
- 15. Less Economically Developed Country
- 16. When producers in LICs are given a better price for the goods they produce. Often this is for farm products like cocoa, coffee or cotton. The better price improves income and reduces exploitation
- 18. The use of resources to improve the quality of life in a country. The progress of a country in terms of economic growth, the use of technology and human welfare
- 19. High Income Country
- 20. Know‐how and equipment that is suited to the basic conditions prevailing in the receiving country
Down
- 1. A way of dividing the world up into the richer ‘North’ (HICs) and poorer ‘South’ (LICs and MICs); it can be thought of as the world’s ‘haves’ and ‘have nots'
- 2. When people lack the income needed to have a reasonable quality of life
- 3. The simple, easily learned and maintained technology used in a range of economic activities serving local needs in LICs.
- 4. Low Income Country
- 7. The 5 countries of Brazil, Russia, India , China and South Africa. All are emerging economies
- 8. When trade between countries is not restricted by, for example, import duties or not being a member of a group of trading nations
- 9. The general level of prosperity (wealth) enjoyed by a population
- 10. More Economically Developed Country
- 11. The difference in standards of living and wellbeing between the world’s richest and poorest countries (between HICs and LICs)
- 12. Newly Industrialized Country. These are countries which have developed rapidly
- 17. The most economically / politically dominant area in a country or region is referred to as the ‘core’. Periphery areas are more isolated, have fewer businesses and well paid jobs and are less politically influential