Dynamic Development Case Study Zambia Flashcards
Facts about Zambia
-Southern Africa
-Landlocked
-Population 14.5 million
-Capital city Lusaka
Describe Zambia economic development
Population- growing due to higher birth than death rate
Society- history of poverty and colonial rule
Technology- evolving slowly due to high cost
Politics- gained independence from Britain 1964
Rostow’s model and Zambia’s development
Take off- Zambia has improved public services due to TNC investments
More luxuries like tourism and transport are allowing for this to emerge
What millennium development goals has/hasn’t Zambia achieved
On track:
Primary education, gender equality, disease and global partnership
Issues:
Poverty, child mortality, maternal health and environmental sustainability
How society, politics and the environment has affected Zambia
Social- 1980 HIV lowers life expectancy, 1981 drought increasing prices of food, money to improve schools if it can
Political- democracy with little political unrest after independence
Environmental- national parks, recourses, no sea border leaving trade to be difficult
International trade and development
Imports more than it exports, can’t rely on itself
64% of exports are copper, when price fell poverty
Good financial services, claim profit from interest
Benefits and problems of TNC’s
Benefits- investment in infrastructure, increases employment
Problems- pay lower salaries to locals
Advantages and disadvantages of aid or debt relief for development
Ads- investment into projects which can develop a country, with no debt money can be reinvested
Disad- locals may not always have a say
Advantages and disadvantages of top down strategies
Kariba Dam
Ads- second largest dam in the world, produces a reliable energy source, new fishing industries are developed
Disad- natural ecosystems are displaced
Advantages and disadvantages of bottom up
Water aid
Ads- allowed locals to create water systems, helped 54,000
Disads- localised, dependant upon volunteers
