human health

Question 1

what are 4 ways of measuring development?🌙

Answer 1

-happy planet index
-human development index
-the world happiness index
-the KOF index

Question 2

summarise what the
world trade organisation
international monetary fund
world bank
do🤍

Answer 2

wto-promote free trade eg by reducing tariffs
imf-promote free trade by increasing fdi flows
wb-provide loans to developing countries to fund economic development

Question 3

what are structural adjustment programmes?🌕

Answer 3

they make countries that receive loans follow specific routes to development such as privatisation

Question 4

case studies?🤍

Answer 4

sharia law and ebola
china-sweatshops and one belt one road
peragu dam and bosnia
haiti and afghanistan

Question 5

what is R2P?🙌

Answer 5

responsibility to protect
international communities have a responsibility to intervene in a country where human rights are being violated

Question 6

motives behind bilateral and multilateral aid?💕

Answer 6

bilateral - self seeking and mutually beneficial
multilateral - humanitarian

Question 7

4 types of geopolitical intervention?💞

Answer 7

development aid
trade embargoes
military aid
military action

Question 8

what is national sovereignty?🌙

Answer 8

every country has a right to govern itself without interference from other countries

Question 9

how can the success of interventions be measured?🐳

Answer 9

life expectancy
gdp per capita
gender equality
democratic elections

Question 10

what’s the main objective of foreign policy?🐬🐠🦈💗

Answer 10

to use diplomacy — or talking, meeting, and making agreements — to solve international problems.
they try to keep problems from developing into conflicts that require military settlements.

Question 11

development? what is essential to achieve these?☀️

Answer 11

countries should aim to improve env quality, health, HR and life expec.
ec growth and a stable govt is essential to this

Question 12

why is it hard to measure intervention success?🪼

Answer 12

hard to collect data accurately
external factors can affect outcomes eg global food prices changing
interventions can span many years and circumstances change
success has different definitions
data outcomes can be interpreted diff

Question 13

how may aid increase inequality🪬

Answer 13

donor countries decide how they spend their air and this could be lost to corruption or making the rich richer
aid agencies can favour large projects for publicity

Question 14

factors affecting health and life expec🏝️

Answer 14

job
education
income
immunisation
smoking
diet
alcohol

Question 15

criticisms of IGos🌻

Answer 15

they forced countries to privatise services and assets and promote free trades
but this cut budgets for education and healthcare programmes

Question 16

criticism of the geneva convention⭐️

Answer 16

establishes what a war crime is
violations rarely come to trial, 141 countries are reported to use torture still eg guantanamo bay

Question 17

what’s development aid?
what’s trade embargoes?
🫶

Answer 17

oda-given to developing countries by govts, igos and ngos eg gifts or loans
embargoes-ban that’s restrict trade, helps a country to change often after HR abuses

Question 18

MDGs drawbacks?🎀

Answer 18

only one of the goals has been achieved
some countries account for a huge part of the successes and can mask limited progress in other areas
all but one MDG focussed on poverty reduction rather than wealth creation
by 2015 800 mill still live in xtreme pov

Question 19

countries that send military aid argue that:🤍
critics argue that:
🤍

Answer 19

to stop sending would threaten intl scurity
stopping aid wouldn’t stop HR abuses
-countries sending aid do it for strategic alliances not protecting HR (MB/SS)