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Limited development (55 cards)

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Causes - health - what fraction of the 25 million HIV/AIDS cases are in Africa and how much does this impact their economic growth?

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2/3rd in Africa, impacts growth by 2-4%

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Causes - health - WHO estimates that there are 216 million malaria cases worldwide, how many of these cases and deaths are in Africa?

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90% of cases and 91% of deaths in Africa

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Causes - education - how many children are missing from education in sub Saharan Africa with an average of only 1 teacher provided for every 130 pupils

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35 million

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Causes - education - how many doctors trained in Kenya leave the country once they are qualified and what is this known as?

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30-40%, the brain drain

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Causes - gender inequality - how many girls in sub Saharan Africa are out of primary education compared to boys?

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23% compared to 19% of boys

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Causes - gender inequality - how much money does the World Bank estimate it costs a country that doesn’t educate girls per year?

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$15-30 trillion

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Causes - incompetent government - the Monument of African Renaissance costed $27 million meanwhile how much of Senegal live below the poverty line?

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47%

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Causes - corrupt government - according to the World Economic Forum, how much is lost each year due to corruption?

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$3.6 trillion

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Causes - corrupt government - what country suffers from inadequate legal framework, lack of political reforms and an economy that isn’t growing due to corruption and since when?

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Iraq since 2003

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Causes - poverty - according the the UN, how many people face food insecurity in the Dominican Republic of Congo as of 2023?

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25.8 million

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Causes - poverty - the guardian argues that what percentage of under 25s globally are unlikely to reach potential due to stunting and poverty?

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43%

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Causes - debt - how much debt is Zimbabwe in and what does this lead to?

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$7 billion and this leads to 18 hour long power cuts as they’re unable to pay bills

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Causes - debt - African countries alone owe how much on debt repayments meaning they can’t invest in education, healthcare, or infrastructure?

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£200 billion

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Effects on ind, fam and com - more likely to suffer from conflict - WFP highlights that in South Sudan, how many people struggle to find food and how many have fled the country due to conflict?

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6.3 million struggle to find food, 4 million have fled

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Effects on ind, fam and com - more likely to experience low or little education - Pakistan has one of the worlds lowest literacy rates at ____

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58%

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Effects on ind, fam and com - more likely to suffer from ill health - Africa accounts for how many malaria cases and how many malaria deaths?

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90% of cases, 91% of deaths

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Effects on ind, fam and com - more likely to be trapped in poverty - how many people in sub Saharan Africa live on less than $1.90 a day?

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400 million (40%)

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Effects on ind, fam and com - more likely to experience gender inequality - in Afghanistan women are banned from higher education, entertainment venues and so much more. This is under the rule of who?

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The Taliban

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Effects on ind, fam and com - more likely to suffer from poor infrastructure - Zimbabwe is in debt by how much and this causes….?

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$7 billion, 18 hour long power cuts

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Effects on ind, fam and com - more likely to be a victim to terrorism - how much did militants in Nigeria demand after kidnapping 280 people from the town of Kuriga on what day?

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They demanded $690,000. This kidnapping happened on March 7th 2024

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Effects on the gov and WC - govt are unable to provide education - what is the average school career in Africa compared to the UK?

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Just 5 years compared to 13 years in the Uk

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Effects on the gov and WC - govt are unable to provide education - how much of their GDP does Pakistan dedicate to education despite having only a 58% literacy rate?

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2.8%

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Effects on the gov and WC - govt have a reduced work force - Swaziland has how much of its population infected by HIV/AIDS and how much of the population in unemployed?

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26% infected by HIV/AIDS, 24.9% are unemployed

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Effects on the gov and WC - govt have to cope with high levels of corruption - Nigeria has a poverty rate of what despite being the largest producer of oil in Africa.

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Effects on the gov and WC -govt may be unable to protect human rights - Amnesty international points to Afghanistan where how much of their population lives in poverty due to the Taliban takeover in 2021?
97%
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Effects on the gov and WC - govt may be shunned - Zimbabwe has experienced ongoing threats from the USA and the EU since 2002 as a result of what?
This rejection to democratic values and extensive human rights violations
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Effects on the gov and WC - govt are affected by unfair trading - what country is forced to accept unfair trading due to conditions of loans and a result of money previously borrowed?
Malawi
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Effects on the gov and WC - WIC has to house refugees - in September 2023 Suello Bravemen reported that housing asylum seekers in hotels in the UK costs how much a day?
£8 a day
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Effects on the gov and WC - WC benefits from the brain drain - the Independent reported that how many NHS doctors came from Asia as they moved to the UK for better pay and living conditions?
15%
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Effects on the gov and WC - WC could be at risk from disease - what was the total cost of COVID-19 measures according to the House of Commons?
Ranged from £310 billion to £410 billion
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Effects on the gov and WC - WC has to provide aid - in 2022 the UK Office of Development Assistance spent how much on foreign aid and how much of an increase is this?
£12,774 million which is an increase of £1,352 from the previos year
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Effects on the gov and WC - WC pushes stereotypes and discrimination - what are two examples of terrorist groups that lead to xenophobia and Islamophobia
ISIS and Boko Haram ( or any other valid terrorist group)
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Effectiveness of countries tackling LD - addresses poor education and gender inequality - girls education challenge support how many girls in developing nations to access education?
1 million
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Effectiveness of countries tackling LD - addresses poor education and gender inequality - how much did the UK invest into tackling gender inequality in education in Malawi?
£36 million
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Effectiveness of countries tackling LD - improved infrastructure - how much did the UK invest in Ethiopia to create over 100,000 jobs in a new industrial park and in total provided jobs for how many refugees?
The UK invested £80 million, over 1 million refugees
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Effectiveness of countries tackling LD - improved healthcare - the UK has provided funding for over how 350 million what in 50 different countries.
Child friendly Malaria treatments
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Effectiveness of countries tackling LD - supports better governance - what country has a long running tax programme partnership with the UK?
Ethiopia
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Effectiveness of countries tackling LD - the UK favours former British Colonies - despite India being able to afford weapons and join the space race, how much did the UK provide them in 2022?
£46 million
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Effectiveness of countries tackling LD - wastes money on projects - the UK spent £285 million on building what in St Helena, only to be a waste of money how?
On an airport, St Helena is an island so it was ‘too windy’ to operate
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Effectiveness of countries tackling LD - gives up more control over funding - how much of the UKs aid budget is spent by other government departments rather than the projects allocated?
25%
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Effectiveness of countries tackling LD - money donated has been wasted - how much money was spent on the Ethiopian ‘Spice Girls’, aimed at tackling domestic violence and forced marriages?
£11 million
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Effectiveness of International Organisations tackling LD - Oxfam - what have Oxfam installed in Syria and what does this ensure?
Water pumps, this ensures populations devastated with the civil war have access to water
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Effectiveness of International Organisations tackling LD - Oxfam - Oxfam is heavily dependant on government funding, having received how much of its funding from the Uk?
£175 million (45%)
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Effectiveness of International Organisations tackling LD - Doctors Without Borders - in 2022, how many people did they provide with HIV/AIDS treatments?
54,000
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Effectiveness of International Organisations tackling LD - Doctors Without Borders - the amount of treatments in 2022 is considerably less than their 2019 number. How many treatments were provided in 2019?
74,400
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Effectiveness of International Organisations tackling LD - Mary’s Meals - how many children do they feed a day in India, how many in Liberia, and finally how many in Haiti?
71,000 , 151,000 , 206,000
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Effectiveness of International Organisations tackling LD - Mary’s Meals - Food insecurity is still incredibly widespread with how many children suffering from hunger daily?
144 million
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Effectiveness of International Organisations tackling LD - Food and Agriculture organisation - FAO works with around 50,000 farmers from where, which results in food for how many people?
Syria, 50,000 people
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Effectiveness of International Organisations tackling LD - Food and Agriculture organisation - as of 2022, how much of the worlds population remains hungry?
8.9%
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Effectiveness of International Organisations tackling LD - World Food Programme - in 2022 WFP assisted how many people to break the cycle of hunger and poverty?
160 million
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Effectiveness of International Organisations tackling LD - World Food Programme - by 2030, how many people are suggested to suffer from hunger due to trends?
More than 840 million
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Effectiveness of International Organisations tackling LD - World Health Organisation - since August 2021 WHO has spent how much on urgent medical supplies in Afghanistan preventing further displacement?
£3.45 million
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Effectiveness of International Organisations tackling LD - World Health Organisation - WHO relies heavily on funding from governments, how much do the receive from the American government alone?
£893 million
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Effectiveness of International Organisations tackling LD - UNICEF - Due to what foundation has resulted in 30 million boys and girls in Africa having access to education?
The Nelson Mandela Foundation
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Effectiveness of International Organisations tackling LD - UNICEF - it is estimated that in 2023, how many young people globally will complete education to an upper secondary level?
Only 60%

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