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Define the crude birth rate (CBR) and the crude death rate (CDR)

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1. Define the crude birth rate (CBR) and the crude death rate (CDR).
   a. Describe how these rates are used to calculate the percent rate of growth and doubling times in a population. Be sure that you can do the math!
2. What is meant by the demographic transition?
   a. Relate epidemiological and fertility transition into its four stages.
3. What have been the two basic schools of thought regarding the demographic transition? How were these reflected in the three most recent global population conferences?
4. What are the Millennium Development Goals (MDG's)?
   a. Where did they come from?
5. What is meant by the debt crisis of the developing world?
   a. What is being done to help resolve this crisis?
6. What is development aid?
   a. Give examples of 2 sources of development aid that a developing country might receive.
   b. How does the amount of aid received compare to the need for such aid?
7. What are the 5 independent components that must be addressed to bring about social modernization?
   a. explain each component briefly.
8. Define family planning.
   a. explain why its critically important to all other aspects of development.
9. Whats microlending?
   a. How does it work?
10. Discuss five specific factors that influence the number of children a poor couple may desire.