Jamaica, St Lucia, Chambamontera Flashcards
Advantages of tourism in Jamaica.
Creates lots of jobs and has low start up costs (Jamaica = 200,000 jobs)
Disadvantage of tourism in Jamaica.
Jobs are often low paid and can be seasonal
Positive effect of AID (Chambamontera)
Can provide money and target help for specific problems especially bottom up
Negitive of AID (Chambamontera)
Top –down projects are often large scale and very expensive
One positive and one negitive of Microfinance.
-Useful especially to women for small businesses
-Limit to how much money is lent
One positive and one negative of Debt relief
-LICs can spend the money they earn on improving health & Edu.
-Not all debt is cleared – doesn’t change economy
One positive effect of Fairtraide (St Lucia)
Enables the farmers to invest and improve their farms
One negitive effect of Fairtraide (St Lucia)
Still primary dependent so limit to how much earnt
3 people that benifit from Fairtraide
-The farmer – to produce a good quality product
-The Retailer – to price Fairtrade goods at a reasonable price
-The Consumer – to buy ethically rather than just the cheapest option
In 2014 what % of Jamaica’s wealth came from tourism
24% about $2 million
What is Emergency aid
Health care, clean water ect
What is Development aid
More long term help designed to improve quality of life. Can be carried out by Government or by Charities (NGOs)
What are Top Down project
This is a LARGE SCALE solution decided upon and carried out by the Government
What is a Bottom Up project
This is a SMALLER SCALE solution decided upon by individual communities specific to their needs
Where is the Chambamontera aid project
Andes mountains – remote hard to connect to electricity supply
