GREAT MARLOW SCHOOL Geography Department

Bridging the Development Gap

Booklet: Topic outline and past paper exam questions

Enquiry Question Learning objectives and outcomes

Food crisis

What is the global food crisis?

How does the global food crisis illustrate the development gap?

Understand the role of the FAO Classify the causes of rising grain prices Understand how to prevent food shortages

The development gap

What is the development gap?

How do we measure development?

How do we identify the development gap?

Use of different indicators to measure development Evaluate Brandt’s North South modelHow can HDI help us understand development?

Understand limitations of models Identify anomalies e.g. Brazil, Dubai

Debt crisis

What does the development gap mean for those

affected? How has Uganda been

affected by debt

How did Uganda and others like it get into debt?

Understand the living conditions in Uganda Compare Uganda and the UK Understand the reasons why they got into debtWhat solutions are there?

Look at / evaluate debt relief Examine the role played by debt in maintaining the development gap

Map projections and models

How do we see the world?

How are people’s attitudes linked to the development gap?

Know advantages and disadvantages of different map projectionsHow did western thinking come to dominate?

Examine theories of ‘core and periphery’ and ‘economic man’ Explain how core and peripheral regions change over time

South Africa

Why is there a development gap

within South Africa today?

Why are there disparities in wealth in SA?

Examine historical reasons for inequality in SA Understand ApartheidWhat changes have been seen since 1994?

Understand why SA is becoming a more unequal society Understand how life for black South Africans can be improved?

Bangalore

Why has Bangalore grown so rapidly?

What problems have been brought about by Bangalore’s growth?

Examine social, economic and environmental causes and effects of Bangalore’s growthHow does India’s caste system work?

Examine how the caste system works and how it impacts development

Ways forward

Is trade the best way to develop?

Trade or aid?

Explain why in the long term trade is more effective than aidHas shifting their economy benefited Uganda?

Describe and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of Uganda encouraging manufacturing Explain why joining the WTO has not benefited them Understand what barriers exist for some countries that hinder their development

Millennium development goals

How do the development goals help development?

What are the millennium development goals?

Understand what the millennium development goals are Look at examples in Bangladesh and Uganda Examine their effectiveness and the challenges faced meeting themIs aid / investment the best way to develop?

To get used to this style of assessment which there will be in the exam this will be a sample assessment

January 2010Bridging the Development Gap.4 Study Figure 4.(a)Using information in Figure 4, and your own knowledge, explain why it is difficult to

measure development. (10)

(b) Evaluate the role of different global organisations in narrowing the development gap. (15)(Total for Question 4 = 25 marks)

June 2010Bridging the Development Gap4 Study Figure 4.(a) Using Figure 4 and your own knowledge, explain why some groups of people within a country have a lower level of development than others. (10)

(b) Using named examples, assess the advantages and disadvantages of top-down and bottom-up development strategies. (15)

January 2011Bridging the Development Gap4 Study Figure 4.

(a) Suggest how the information shown can be considered as both good and bad news for the developing world. (10)

(b) Using named examples, evaluate the success of two contrasting strategies used to narrow the development gap. (15)

June 2011Bridging the Development Gap6 (a) Outline the strengths and weaknesses of Morocco’s decision to use tourism as a major development strategy. (14)(b) To what extent does environmental change threaten economic development and ecological wellbeing in the Maghreb? (12)(c) The Maghreb is at a political and economic crossroads. Evaluate the costs and benefits of the possible directions it could take for its future development. (14)

January 2012Bridging the Development Gap5 Study Figure 5.(a) Suggest why the people shown have contrasting views on the priorities for development. (10)

(b) Using named examples, examine the extent to which the development gap occurs within countries as well as globally. (15)

June 2012Bridging the Development Gap4 Study Figure 4.(a) Suggest reasons for the variable progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal targets. (10)

(b) Using named examples, assess the advantages and disadvantages of contrasting ways of measuring development. (15)

January 2013Bridging the Development Gap4 Study Figure 4.(a) Using Figure 4, explain how the groups of players have both positive and negative impacts on the development process. (10)

(b) Assess the extent to which models and theories, such as the North-South divide and dependency theory, are useful in helping to understand the development gap. (15)

June 2013Bridging the Development Gap4 Study Figure 4.(a) Using Figure 4 and your own knowledge, explain how trade patterns influence the global development gap. (10)

(b) Using named examples, evaluate the view that migration to megacities is the best solution to rural poverty in the developing world. (15)

June 2014Bridging the Development Gap6 (a) Compare the development progress made by the three East African countries since 1990. (12)(b) To what extent do economic and political issues affect the stability and development potential of the region? (14)(c) Evaluate the potential opportunities and risks of developing the LAPSSET project and creating the EAF from the EAC. (14)