strategies to reduce development Flashcards

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the stratagies

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  • investment
  • industrial development
  • free trade
  • tourism
  • aid
  • immediate tech
  • fairtrade
  • debt relief
  • microfinancie loans
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investment strat

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  • TNC’s invest in LIC’s to provide money and therefore employment
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example of investment

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eg. china to Africa
- mining
- construction
- manufacturing

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industrial development

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  • bring employment and income = better housing and quality of life
    eg. china
    agriculture –> manufacturing
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free trade

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  • top down (decision made from the top downwards aka the people with high to low power)
  • trading free of charge and tax
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tourism

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  • tourism
    = good investment and income
    = better infrastructure + creates direct and indirect jobs
    (dangerous is money is scarce)
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aid

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  • NGO’s donate (food, water, resources, etc) to improve lives
    eg. UK gives Pakistan 35 million pounds -> used to better education
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immediate tech

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  • suitable projects for the needs of the country
    eg. micro hydro in Nepal
    = enough energy that can be used for phones, tv, working at night etc.
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fairtrade

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  • producers get a good price
  • environmentally friendly
  • some of the end price goes to the locals
    eg. 90% of coffee farms in east Uganda joined gumotindo coffee cooperative
    = milled -> roasted for a better and higher value
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debt relief

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  • debt is cancelled to focus on development
    eg. 2006 the IMF cancelled the debt of 19 countries
  • BUT corrupt gov take the money
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microfinance loans

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  • small financial support to encourage self sufficiency
    Grameen bank in Bangladesh for women (1976)
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