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How many people live on less than $1.45 a day in the Congo?
87% of the population
What has conflict done to education and healthcare in the Congo?
School enrolment rates from primary school to uni series have plummeted
There is inadequate healthcare such as gynaecologists
How has Ebola negatively impacted development?
General
Always been a threat but only when impacting developed countries it was made a global issue
Economic
Reduced labour force
Lack of tourism due to disease
Braindrain of skilled workforce
What could potential benefits of Ebola be on development?
Economic
May be future volunteering trips
Social
Clicktivism has resulted in developed nations being aware of issue positively impacting development by improving medical care
From 2002 how much has child abuse calls to helplines increased?
6000 call increase per year since 2002
Due to media coverage
What does terrorism do to the achievement of the SDGs?
Groups like ISIS are making the goal of 16.1 and 16.11 hard to achieve as creating dear and unjust prejudice
What is the proportion of victims of trafficking being a child?
1 in 3 known victims
What are the negatives of using GNI and GDP as a way of comparing development?
Only useful in countries with many economic transactions
It hides extremes and uneven distribution
Not reflective of local value of money
What are the limitations with HDI?
Its creation by the UN was politically motivated with specific focus on health
Data isn’t always available in all countries
It can mask regional disparities between urban/rural, core/periphery, different ethnic groups
How does the modernisation theory explain why the MEDCs are so rich?
They are capitalist with enterprise
There is a strong relationship between a political system and an economic system
How does the dependency theory explain why the MEDCs are so rich?
What does it predict for the future?
They development of the rich is done by exploiting raw materials of developing world by dominating (colonialism)
It predicts that the development gap will not improve
What is the world view based on the poverty cycle theory?
How does it explain why MEDCs are rich and LEDCs are poor?
Predict for future?
Limitations?
A country is its own unit -no external factors
Doesn’t focus on MEDCs but suggests it had capital in the first place to catalyse development. LEDCs are stuck in a cycle
Developing countries will remain stagnant in a cycle
China and globalisation is not considered
What is the view of the world on the Core-periphery model?
Does it explain why MEDCs are rich and LEDCs are poor?
Future?
What are limitations
The relationship between the core and periphery are widening the gap
MEDCs - Cheap goods, material and labour from developing countries so make money.
LEDCs - YES - drcongo only five raw materials so don’t exploit relationship
NO - Morocco use tourism etc for income
No future predictions
Too vague and no future thought
What is the world view based on the debt crisis?
How does it explain why MEDCs are rich and LEDCs are poor?
What does it predict for the future?
Capitalist view on making money off enterprise.
MEDCs give money for cash crops
LEDCs High loans and interest on top and must import crops etc
Suggest in future gap will widen
What does globalisation suggest about the world view?
How does it explain why MEDCs are rich and LEDCs are poor?
What does it predict for the future?
Limitations?
Capitalist view that the world gets smaller
MEDCs - many tncs from developed countries. Schengen = make money from migrants working etc
LEDCs - exploited through cheap labour
Suggest all become interdependent and we will become a westernised world
Doesn’t acknowledge switched off places
