Development

• Causes of uneven development

  • located near a port
  • natural disasters
  • climate
  • transport links
  • access to resources (oil)
  • conflict + war
• development in a HIC

  • Built roads
  • safe environment
  • well structured buildings
  • big business or finance
  • public transport
  • good healthcare
• Development in a LIC

  • slower rate of developments
  • poor healthcare
  • lack of sewage system
  • run down building
  • poorer housing
• HDI (human development index)

  1. Average years of schooling
  2. expected years of schooling
  3. Life expectancy at birth
  4. Gross national income per capita
• Types of migration

  • emigration
  • immigratioj
  • internal
  • international
  • voluntary
  • forced
• How to reduce development gap: tourism

  • Tourists more likely to spend more money
  • could turn into permanent residents
  • Visitors may encourage friends or family to also visit
• Types of aid

  • short term
  • long term
  • tied
  • voluntary
  • multilateral
  • bilateral
• Short term aid 


  Emergency help usually in response to a natural disaster
• long term aid

  • Sustainable aid that seeks to improve resilience over time
• Tied aid


  Aid may be given with certain conditions such as spending the money on the donor countries products
• Voluntary


  Money donated by the general public in richer countries and distributed by NGOs (not run by governement)
• Multilateral aid


  Richer governments give money to as international organisation such as the world bank then this is redistributed to poorer countries
• Bilateral aid


  Aid from one country to another
• Goat aid - oxfam (benefits)

  • create products (cheese)
  • Provide meat
  • Manure for crop fertiliser
  • Care for goat can build community spirit
  • breed if more than 2
• Rice fish farming

  • Farmers provided a loan to begin process
  • Given tools and resources to help
  • Plant rice and breed fish at the same time
  • creates jobs for people locally
• Process of rice fish farming

  • rice and fish together in same water
  • Fish feces act as nutrients for the rice simultaneously the fish remove any algae on rice
  • nets to prevent predators (birds)