Economic activity- UK + Nigeria

Question 1

HDI measures

Answer 1

Life expectancy
Income
Education

Question 2

Physical development case study

Answer 2

Haiti
7.1 mg earthquake in 2010 - $14bn
Killed 220,000

Question 3

Strategies to reduce development gap

Answer 3

TNC investment
Aid
Microfinance loans
Fairtrade

Question 4

Tunisia stats good

Answer 4

$900 million in 2009
370,000 jobs created
Literacy rates increased by 13%

Question 5

Tunisia stats unsustainble tourism

Answer 5

Leakage of profits eg Thomas Cook
2015 Terrorist attack killed 39 - lost 35% revenue
Hotel Sewage waste

Question 6

Dangote cement

Answer 6

Secondary industry - cement production
2000 and growing employees
50 million tonnes of cement a year

Question 7

Shell positive effects to nigeria

Answer 7

$300 GDP per capita in 2000 to $3000 in 2017
Multiplier effect
Paid $1.3 billion in taxes to Nigerian government
Shell foundation

Question 8

Shell negatives to Nigeria

Answer 8

2011 40,000 barrels of oil spilled
Shell accussed of humans rights violations against ogoni people
Profit leakage
Poor wages and conditions
Nigeria still has to import oil as it does not have refineries

Question 9

Shell oil spill example

Answer 9

Bodo oil spill 2008, 2000 barrels spilled damaging mangroves

Question 10

Example of governmental aid to nigeria + negative of it

Answer 10

Chinese Railway Construction Corporation
Won $12 billion contract to finance 1400km railway
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TIED loan, Nigeria has to supply petrochina with 30,000 barrels of oil a day

Question 11

Example of charitable aid

Answer 11

UN Word Food Foundation provided food to 400,000 farmers who would have otherwise died of starvation

Question 12

Example of small scale aid

Answer 12

Oxfam GB trying to increase farmers productivity - leads to higher profits due to better harvesting
Negatives : small scale

Question 13

Developmental aid example

Answer 13

2016 UK gave £305 million to Nigeria to help it achieve millenial goals - only 60% literacy rates

Question 14

Nigeria industrial growth effects

Answer 14

10,000 informal business which then are unregulated in their production of environmental waste

Question 15

UK science park stats good + bad

Answer 15

Cambridge science park
7300 employees
Brings investment to Cambridge
1500 biotech companies
Bad:
House prices increasing
Congestion

Question 16

Torr quarry sustainability

Answer 16

£15 million to economy
Resotration project on site - wildlife lakes and a water supply
Rail transport to minimise noise disruption
200 acres landscaped