Malawi - Development Dilemmas

Question 1

Landlocked:

Answer 1

• no port so no imports or exports
• have to go through Mozambique to reach the coastline
• nearly all exports are shipped out from Macala
• trains return with imports
• slow process

Question 2

Since 1998

Answer 2

• DR from 23% to 12.8% improvement in development
• IFMR from 132 to 79 per 1000
• however malnutrition down from 48% to 18.5%

Question 3

Trapped in poverty

Answer 3

• faces rise in food prices, fuel shortages and 1.2 million people facing hunger
• impacts taxes because not a lot of people have money
• effects education and health care
• leads to increase of disease

Question 4

Impacts of HIV AIDS

Answer 4

• 20% of adults effected and infected
• every year 10,000 die
• main cause for DR and low life expectancy

Question 5

Economic problems

Answer 5

• people are becoming weaker and therefore unable to work -> income falls
• high costs of medicine which families cannot afford
• 1/3 people get treatment
• death of a wage earner + cost of funeral pushes families into further poverty
• by 2009, 500,000 orphans due to parents lost by AIDS

Question 6

Basic information

Answer 6

• rapid pop growth
• 85% live in rural and have low infrastructure and lack of running water
• poverty increased in these areas due to low agriculture product activity
• brain drain of educated
• huge corruption means donors stop donating
• average student stays at school 4 years
• 2 million don’t have access to safe water and 10 mill to sanitation