What is the relationship between patterns of international migration and socio economic development

What is development?

A measure of social, economic and technological progress

What is social development?

How good the standard of living or quality of life is for the people of a country

What is economic development?

How wealthy a country or the people are as well as the quality and quantity of jobs

What is negative development?

Due to conflict or natural disasters development can go backwards

What are the 7 ways to measure development?

• Financial stability

• Life expectancy

• Birth rate

• Literacy rate

• HDI

• Death rate

• GDP

What does FDI stand for?

Foreign direct investment

What is FDI?

Money that goes into the country by other foreign companies

How is knowledge measured?

Adult literacy and the % of children attending school

How is income measured?

GDP per capita (the total value of all goods and services produced in a country divided by its total population)

How is longevity measured?

Life expectancy at birth

How much in remittances is sent back?

404 billion

Why can migration contribute significantly to development?

It can be a positive process for stability, economic growth and socio economic change

Why can inequalities in levels of development be a cause of migration?

This has a major influence on the direction and scale of global migrant flows