Development Gap case studies

Question 1

How many people died in the Nepal earthquake?

Answer 1

8000

Question 2

How many people were homeless in the Nepal earthquake?

Answer 2

2.8 million

Question 3

How much damage was caused to roads and buildings after the nepal earthquake?

Answer 3

$10 billion

Question 4

How much economic damage was there after the Nepal earthquake?

Answer 4

half the countries GDP

Question 5

What are the aims of the Cahora Bassa Dam?

Answer 5

• exports invisible products (electricity) to neighbouring countries such as South Africa and Zimbabwe
• aims to produce electricity for industrialisation in mozambique

Question 6

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the dam?

Answer 6

Pros: 
- tourism
- money from power export
- possibility of industrialisation
Cons:
- environmental damage (effects fishing industry)
- doesn't provide local people with power
- bound Mozambique to portugal

Question 7

What is goat aid?

Answer 7

an international charitable effort by oxfam where you pay £25 for a goat which is given to a village in africa

Question 8

Why is goat aid good for developing communities?

Answer 8

• long term sustainable solution

- goats produce butter milk, cheese and meat and can breed and be sold on

Question 9

What is the village phone program?

Answer 9

• a micro enterprise

- women entrepeneurs provide a phone service affecting 28 000 villages and benefiting 80 million people

Question 10

Give an example of a conservation swap

Answer 10

USA/Brazil rain forest

- swapped $21 million of debt for the conservation of the Atlantic coastal rain-forest.

Question 11

Why is Bulgaria less developed than the UK?

Answer 11

• used to be a communist country
• less accessible (land locked + not many raw materials)
• public corruption in the 1990s
• lack of industry
• less strong currency
• not been an EU member that long

Question 12

What causes malaria?

Answer 12

climate change (increased rainfall and temperature) INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MOSQUITOS

Question 13

What are the effects of malaria?

Answer 13

• a child dies every 2 minutes from malaria

- costs Africa $12 billion a year

Question 14

What are the solutions of malaria?

Answer 14

• good healthcare
• funding
• treatment, mosquito nets and & vaccines

Question 15

What are the causes of bilharzia?

Answer 15

parasitic worms in water burrow into the human body

Question 16

How does bilharzia affect development?

Answer 16

• 40 million people were treated in 2013 costing money for healthcare and reducing the productivity of workers

Question 17

How was development effected in Zimbabwe?

Answer 17

• 3/4/ of major hospitals were shut down
• in 2002 it was suspended from the UN
• hyperinflation
• land distributions

Zimbabwe became isolated and unable to develop

Question 18

How does fairtrade help?

Answer 18

• annual global sales in excess of £6 billion and operating in 70 developing countries
• money can help the local community and improves working conditions
• it cuts out the wholesaler increasing money for workers meaning children can be educated
• guaranteed buyer for the products and nolarge drops in the price give families stability