Reducing Global Inequalities

Question 1

Which charity is trying to stop the high loan repayments?

Answer 1

Drop the Debt

Question 2

What’s a conservation swap?

Answer 2

Rich countries and organisations pay part of a poor country’s loan, as long as the money saved is used to protect important areas and enhance biodiversity

Question 3

What’s a trade bloc?

Answer 3

Countries join together to receive economic benefits as they trade freely with eachother
ie no taxes, no quotas

Question 4

What’s Fair Trade?

Answer 4

An international movement ensuring producers in LICs get a fair deal as they receive a guaranteed price for their crop- giving them security

Question 5

Short-Term Aid

Answer 5

Keeps people alive, and allows the recipient countries to cope with emergencies

Question 6

Long-Term Aid

Answer 6

Helps recipient countries become more developed

Question 7

Bi Lateral Aid

Answer 7

Aid between 2 countries

Question 8

Multilateral Aid

Answer 8

Lots of countries pay money into a pot and distribute it to where it’s most needed

Question 9

Non-Government Organisations

Answer 9

Charities that use donated money to help provide aid

Question 10

Advantages of short-term aid

Answer 10

Immediate- more will survive, easy

Question 11

Advantages of long-term aid

Answer 11

Recipient less reliant on foreign aid (but still reliant on donor country), builds trade links, develops infrastructure- improving quality of life

Question 12

Advantages of bi lateral aid

Answer 12

Improves quality of life, trade links

Question 13

Advantages of multilateral aid

Answer 13

Focuses on relieving suffering, caused by conflict or natural disaster

Question 14

Advantages of charities

Answer 14

Target small-scale community projects, send trained people to help

Question 15

Disadvantages of short-term aid

Answer 15

Doesn’t help the development of a country, become reliant on aid

Question 16

Disadvantages of long-term aid

Answer 16

Takes a while for the community to benefit ie hospitals need to be built, may not reach the poorest

Question 17

Disadvantages of bi lateral aid

Answer 17

Tied aid- have to buy donor’s products which is expensive and reduces development

Question 18

Disadvantages of multilateral aid

Answer 18

Doesn’t remove the root causes of poverty

Question 19

Disadvantages of charities

Answer 19

Still mainly funded by governments, relies on donations

Question 20

Reasons why we should give aid

Answer 20

Improves health, as it provides primary healthcare like vaccines- people aren’t ill so get jobs, improving the local economy
Can help increase yields of local crops, feeding rapidly growing populations, farmers can sell excess, increasing income

Question 21

Reasons why we shouldn’t give aid

Answer 21

Not all money spent on the poor who need it, ie India and their £ billion space project
Not all countries need the aid
Giving clothes reduces the economy as people don’t buy from shops, causing them to close down, increasing unemployment, reducing incomes

Question 22

Aid from the bottom up

Answer 22

Aid goes to the poor who need it, meaning that local economies benefit first, and it gradually helps the rest of the country

Question 23

Advantages of bottom up aid

Answer 23

Local people are involved in Bottom up aid and projects are democratic
Less money is lost to corruption
Projects tend to be more sustainable

Question 24

Disadvantages of bottom up aid

Answer 24

Less reliable, in times of recession people give less to charities.
Often lacks coordination, with many charities competing in the same areas, so is therefore inefficient in delivering whole sale change to countries and regions

Question 25

Top Down Aid

Answer 25

Money is given to the government to invest it where it’s needed

Question 26

Advantages of top down aid

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Projects aim to solve large scale problems in a recipient country so are well coordinated and backed by money
Large scale projects such as dams and superhighways improve the national infrastructure for the majority of people

Question 27

Disadvantages of top down aid

Answer 27

Big projects are capital intensive and poor countries may have to add more money to the aid given to ensure that the projects are completed.
Large scale projects are often part of TIED aid, where the LEDC has to either pay back loans or allow richer countries access to its resources.
Projects often less sustainable, consuming large amounts of time, land and resources

Question 28

Sustainable Scheme

Answer 28

Meets the needs of today’s generation without compromising the needs of future generations