How many people died in the Nepal earthquake?
8000
How many people were homeless in the Nepal earthquake?
2.8 million
How much damage was caused to roads and buildings after the nepal earthquake?
$10 billion
How much economic damage was there after the Nepal earthquake?
half the countries GDP
What are the aims of the Cahora Bassa Dam?
- exports invisible products (electricity) to neighbouring countries such as South Africa and Zimbabwe
- aims to produce electricity for industrialisation in mozambique
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the dam?
Pros: - tourism - money from power export - possibility of industrialisation Cons: - environmental damage (effects fishing industry) - doesn't provide local people with power - bound Mozambique to portugal
What is goat aid?
an international charitable effort by oxfam where you pay £25 for a goat which is given to a village in africa
Why is goat aid good for developing communities?
- long term sustainable solution
- goats produce butter milk, cheese and meat and can breed and be sold on
What is the village phone program?
- a micro enterprise
- women entrepeneurs provide a phone service affecting 28 000 villages and benefiting 80 million people
Give an example of a conservation swap
USA/Brazil rain forest
- swapped $21 million of debt for the conservation of the Atlantic coastal rain-forest.
Why is Bulgaria less developed than the UK?
- used to be a communist country
- less accessible (land locked + not many raw materials)
- public corruption in the 1990s
- lack of industry
- less strong currency
- not been an EU member that long
What causes malaria?
climate change (increased rainfall and temperature) INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MOSQUITOS
What are the effects of malaria?
- a child dies every 2 minutes from malaria
- costs Africa $12 billion a year
What are the solutions of malaria?
- good healthcare
- funding
- treatment, mosquito nets and & vaccines
What are the causes of bilharzia?
parasitic worms in water burrow into the human body
How does bilharzia affect development?
- 40 million people were treated in 2013 costing money for healthcare and reducing the productivity of workers
How was development effected in Zimbabwe?
- 3/4/ of major hospitals were shut down
- in 2002 it was suspended from the UN
- hyperinflation
- land distributions
Zimbabwe became isolated and unable to develop
How does fairtrade help?
- annual global sales in excess of £6 billion and operating in 70 developing countries
- money can help the local community and improves working conditions
- it cuts out the wholesaler increasing money for workers meaning children can be educated
- guaranteed buyer for the products and nolarge drops in the price give families stability
