Development aid

Question 1

Give two benefits and one disadvantage of bilateral aid

Answer 1

• Quick and flexible
• Encourages relationships
  x Tied and most common

Question 2

Between 2008-2011, how much global aid was bilateral?

Answer 2

60%

Question 3

Give an advantage of multilateral aid

Answer 3

Less tied to political interests and more legitimate

Question 4

Give four disadvantages of aid

Answer 4

• Dependency of LEDCs
• Corruption of government
• Political or economic pressure of recipient owing a favour
• Large scale projects often ineffective to individuals

Question 5

Give four advantages of aid

Answer 5

• Emergency/ Save lives
• Aid rebuild and redevelop
• Medical training, equipment and medicine
• Agricultural for bottom-up

Question 6

Give an example of bilateral aid

Answer 6

In the 1980s the UK funded the Pergau Dam in Malaysia as tied aid to buy warplanes

Question 7

Haiti (unsuccessful aid case study)

• (1) NGOs following 2010 earthquake and more than $(2) donated internationally
• Thousands protested chanting ‘(3)’
• NGOs still provide (4)% of services that should be provided by government
• (5) epidemic brought by UN troops

Answer 7

1 - 10,000
2 - 10 billion 
3 - UN, go home
4 - 80 
5 - Cholera

Question 8

Haiti (unsuccessful aid):

• (1) still living in temporary housing
• American Red Cross collected (2) but only donated (3)
• (4) Haitians live on less than $2 a day and (5) are illiterate

Answer 8

1 - 10,000
2 - $255 million 
3 - $106 million 
4 - four-fifths 
5 - one-third

Question 9

Haiti (unsuccessful aid):

• Highly (1) society, 1% of the population control nearly 50%
• Too many (2) NGOs involved
• Many aid pledges not fulfilled due to (3)
• Aid was unequally (4)

Answer 9

1 - Polarised
2 - Un-qualified/ Small scale
3 - Government corruption
4 - Distributed

Question 10

Tackling malaria (successful aid):

• 2017: (1) cases in (2) countries and death toll of (3)
• African region has (4)% of cases and 93% of deaths
• Total funded estimated (5)

Answer 10

1 - 219 million 
2 - 90
3 - 435,000
4 - 92
5 - $3.1 billion

Question 11

Tackling malaria (successful aid):

• Between 2000-2014, malaria deaths decreased by (1)
• 548 million insecticidal nets in (2) countries
• The Global Fund donated (3)

Answer 11

1 - 48%
2 - 100
3 - $46 billion

Question 12

Ebola (successful aid):

• First appeared in (1) in DRC and Sudan then again in (2) in West Africa
• (3)% mortality
• Over (4) died
• MSF set up 15 centres, shipped 1,400 tonnes of equipment and (5) protective suits

Answer 12

1 - 1976 
2 - 2014
3 - 50
4 - 11,000
5 - 530,000

Question 13

Partial success - gender equality:

• Between 2006-2015, female parliamentary representation is (1)% although (2) countries surveyed had a female head of state
• Gender related aid increased 150% in (3) but decreased 32.5% in (4)

Answer 13

1 - 19
2 - 77
3 - Saudi Arabia
4 - Sri Lanka