Devt 2

Question 1

Overall challenges

Answer 1

P
- corruption
- censorship of media

P
- environmental degradation (cannot balance w devt)
- deforestation management

E
- income inequality
- lack of talented workforce (no invst in training, no manpower)

C/S
- racial harmony
- housing issues

T
- not enough talent
- no manpwoer

Question 1

SG problems

Answer 1

P
- same ruling party for years (PAP)

P
- competing land uses
- waste generation high (semakau full by 2035)
- energy/food/water security

E
- income inequality (gini coefficient of 0.378, average for OECD countries is 0.32)
- no manpower (birth rate low, ageing population)

S
- high living costs

T
- no talent (need 60k pros by 2030, we don’t have enough)
- cyber attack
- AI replace those w manual jobs

Question 2

Myanmar

Answer 2

P
- military coup in 2021

P
- air pollution in Yangon from high levels of industrial activity, many vehicles
- pollution due to poor waste management

E
- poor currency as military triggered freeze of foreign reserves in US
- high poverty of 40%
- high inequality, 57.1
- low employment rate 60%

S
- Buddhist dominated
- persecution of rohingyas

T
- telecom market monopolised by military, lead to censorship

Question 3

Brazil

Answer 3

P
- Operation Car Wash, 5 billion in money laundering from politicians uncovered

P
- Amazon deforestation 10k sqm in 2019, up 34% from 2018

E
- Income inequality (top 5% richest owns 95% of income)

S
- Lack of housing (build w poor sanitation, 35% break out in diseases)
- Education poor (2018 PISA, lower in sci/math/reading)

T
- 9.6 million tech pros in next 3 years
- lack of R&D