Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Development Case Studies
- Hazard affecting Development
- Hurricane Ivan, Grenada
- Effects
- 37 People died.
- 90% of buildings destroyed.
- Infrastructure broken/ Services
closed/ Roads blocked.
- Impacts on Development
- Destroyed schools so reduced literacy rate.
- Destroyed hospitals so reduced life
expectancy and increased infant mortality.
- Destroyed business so reduced GDP.
- With no money and broken infrastructure, took
10 yrs recovery, so lost 10 yrs of development.
- Development Project
- Practical Action,
Zimbabwe
- Why they
needed Help?
- Shanty Town Fires
- Inflation x 2
every 24 hrs
- President Mugabe, a dictator,
caused civil war and poverty
- Who they Helped?
- Epworth Women and
Youth in the production
of soil stabilized brick.
- Overall, ripple out to help all
people in poor communities.
- How they Helped?
- Spent £1.1 million
- Training on soil
stabilized bricks.
- Created local jobs
- brick delivery,
brick machinery
repair etc.
- Results of Aid?
- Over 100 small-scale businesses
set up due to ripple effect.
- 60 Brick Production
Sites in Epworth.
- 20% homes in Epworth now
built of brick - reduced fire risk.
- Comparing 2 EU Country
- Ireland Vs. Bulgaria
- Ireland
- HDI Rank: 5th
- GDP: $48,000
- Joined EU in first stages.
- Became place for HQ's of many
international organisations as it was
cheap and had trade links to Europe.
- Economy grew by
10% each year -
Celtic Tiger.
- Bulgaria
- HDI Rank: 57th
- GDP: $7,158
- Was part of communist
USSR - when it collapsed,
lost 80% of it's wealth.
- Trades in cheap
primary products not
manufactured ones.