Development - a change which improves the wealth and quality of life for people., Economic development - occurs if incomes, wealth & employment improves. Standard of living.  , Development Gap - Difference in levels of development between the world's richest and poorest countries. , Development continuum - a linear scale from 'highly' developed countries to those with 'low level' development. , Positive correlation -scatter graph - Means as one variable increases, so does the other variable. , World Bank - An international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes. , Gross national income (GNI) per capita - total output for a country divided by population. An average - masks inequality. , Employment structure - Balance between primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. More primary = poorer. , Brandt Line - Divided the world into a rich north and poor south. Out of date and too simple. , Social development - occurs in places where life expectancy is increasing, access to education improves, decent housing and gender/race equality improve. Quality of life. , Economic measurements limitations - Mask inequalities, are averages, ignore social/environmental development. Ignore cost of living/inflation. , Negative correlation - scatter graph  - means as one variable increases, the other gets smaller -> infant mortality rate is highest when countries are poor ,

1. Development WJEC GCSE

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