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Reducing Global Inequality #1
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- 1If people don't get help from authorities etc., how do they improve their lives? Give three ways1) Moving from a rural area to an urban area
2) Improving their environment, e.g housing
3) Communities can work together to make a collaborative better quality of life - 2How does moving from a rural area to an urban one help improve someones quality of life?There are more things like water, food and jobs available in urban areas
- 3What is fair trade?Getting a fair price for goods produced in poorer countries
- 4Why does buying fair trade products improve someones quality of life?Aside from being treated fairly (no discrimination etc) and being paid fairly, the fair trade products also has an extra cost, which helps develop the area the food came from, e.g schools
- 5What are trading groups?Groups of countries that make agreements to reduce barriers to trade (e.g reduce import tax)- this helps increase trade
- 6What happens when a poor country joins a trading group?The amount of money the country gets from trading increases
- 7What does it mean when a country has more money?More development can take place
- 8Why are trading groups sometimes not good?Its not easy for poor countries that aren't part of the groups to export to countries that are. This reduces the export income of the non-trading group countries and slows down the development
- 9What is debt abolition?When most, if not all, of a countries debt is cancelled
- 10Why does debt abolition exist?If a country is so poor that it will never develop enough to ever pay back the debts
- 11What happens when a countries debts has been cancelled?They can put all the saved money towards developments, rather than pay back the debt
- 12Give an example of where debt abolition improved someones quality of lifeIn Zambia in 2005 had $4 billion debt cancelled and in 2006 made a free health care system
- 13What are conservation swaps?When part of a countries debt is paid of by another in exchange for investment in conservation
- 14Give an example where conservation swaps have occurredIn 2008 the USA reduced Peru's debt by $25 million in order to have conservation of its rain forests