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Question 1

Types of Government

Answer 1

Totalitarian Regime

Welfare State

Question 2

Types of Government: Totalitarian Regime

Answer 2

System of government centralised and dictatorial; requires complete subservience

Question 3

Types of Government: Welfare State

Answer 3

State that has policies in place (health care, benefits, education, social care) to ensure social progress. Spending on wellness of all citizens is a priority

Question 4

What is Social Progress

Answer 4

Societies have power to improve their ability to meet basic human needs and create opportunities of people to improve their lot within society

Question 5

IGO

Answer 5

Intergovernmental Organisations

Question 6

IMF

WB

WTO

Answer 6

International Monetary Fund

World Bank

The World Trade Organisation

Question 7

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Answer 7

Support by WB

• 8 goals relating to different aspects of human development.
• Agreed by UN in 2000 and were expected to be achieved by 2015.
• MDG for developing world and included over 100 sub points.

Question 8

Millennium Development Goals 6 aims

Answer 8

Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Question 9

Why Millennium Development Goals 6

Answer 9

HIV/AID, malaria and other diseases have direct and indirect impacts on rural development, agricultural productivity and food and nutrition security.

Food and nutrition insecurity and malnutrition can increase vulnerability to disease.

Question 10

Millennium Development Goals 6 Targets

Answer 10

• Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
• Halted by 2015 and begin reverse spread of HIV/AIDS
• Halted by 2015 and begun to reverse incidence of malaria and other major diseases

Question 11

Any success of MDG6 for HIV

Answer 11

To an extent
While close to 12 million people in low/middle-income countries receiving antiretroviral therapy at end of 2013.

End of 2013, approx. 2.1 million people became newly infected.

More than two-thirds of new HIV infections are in sub-Saharan Africa

Question 12

Any success of MDG6 for Malaria

Answer 12

No

2013, disease killed approx. 584000 people died

On average, malaria kills a child every minute.

Question 13

What does WB do

Answer 13

works with developing countries to reduce poverty and increase shared prosperity

Question 14

What does IMF do

Answer 14

stabilize international monetary system and acts as monitor of world’s currencies

Question 15

Criticism of the IGOs

Answer 15

Structural adjustment policies (SAPs)

Question 16

What is SAPs

Answer 16

Supporters are IMF and World Bank

Policies designed to tackle root cause of problem and provide framework for long term development and long term growth

Question 17

Problem with SAPs: Policies of Tackling Inflation

Answer 17

In practice, involved higher interest rates or higher taxes. Lead to unemployment

Question 18

Problem with SAPs: Greater Inequality

Answer 18

Privatisation often benefitted a small rich elite (e.g. Russia 1995) and have not benefitted wider population.

Question 19

Gove and IGO role in defining development targets and policies

Answer 19

MDG

SDG

Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals

Question 20

What are the SDGs

Answer 20

Agenda set out 17 SDGs to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice and tackle climate change by 2030

Address root causes of poverty and universal need for a style of development that works for all people