Change In Economic World

Question 1

SMART moterways

Answer 1

Total cost £15 billion
More than double bed

Question 2

HS2

Answer 2

2010 price- £40bn
2029 price- £108bn
It ‘levels up’

Question 3

Food

Answer 3

Over £2 billion more undernourished
There is kawashkor and scurvy
Av cal a day in USA:AFRICA
3800:1800

UK demand for exotic food
Buy from abroad

Question 4

Water

Answer 4

2025- 50 countries in water deficit
Poor sanitation - 2nd biggest killer of children in the world

Question 5

Energy

Answer 5

Uk 37.4% renewable
35% fossil fuel

Question 6

Haiti

Answer 6

Dependent on foreign aid
$22 billion ( today ) reparations to France
80% of rev to pay it off for the next 120 years
Then USA took it over and killed people rebelling then pulled back troops for good will policy.

Question 7

Stratigies to reduce dev gap

Answer 7

Investment- FDI, multiplier effect
( shell gave Nigeria 14k jobs )

Aid- unilateral, more then one country
Bi lateral- country to country

Fair trade-small farmers given minimum wage and paid fairly

Debt relief- cancel LIC debt to help them

Micro finance loans- LICs get litttle loans to help them

Intermediate tech- tech to make them get a skill

Tourism- Kenya, 600k employed

Question 8

Shell and Nigeria

Answer 8

FDI
14k employed
2018 £1.5 billion in tax
91% of contracts go to Nigerians
250k jobs linked to Shell

Question 9

Nigeria bad

Answer 9

48% live in absolute poverty
57% literacy rate ( 78% in Kenya )

Question 10

Britain

Answer 10

Privatisation
Brexit

2015 78% in tertiary
10% in quaternary

Question 11

Hebden vs Nelson

Answer 11

House price: £195k vs £61k
Tourism: 6 mil vs none