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Development and Inequality
Quick questions on Measuring development and wellbeing explained: H2 Geography
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What are composite indicators?Show answer
Because development is multidimensional, composite indices combine several measures:
What are evaluating the measures?Show answer
No measure is complete. Economic measures are necessary but insufficient; composite indices are a real advance because they make development multidimensional and rankable, but they remain averages that can hide inequality and omit dimensions such as freedom and environmental quality. The best practice is to use a suite of indicators.
What is q1?Show answer
Give two limitations of GDP per capita as a development indicator. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
State the three components of the Human Development Index. [3 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Explain why a suite of indicators is preferable to any single measure of development. [2 marks]
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