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JC GEOG
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
Term | Definition |
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COLONIALISM | one country takes over another and rules it |
CLIMATE CHANGE | in Africa the climate is getting drier, farmland is being destroyed |
FACTORS THAT SLOW ECONOMIC DEVELPOMENT | colonialism, spending on arms, rapid population growth, climate change |
HIGH BIRTH RATE | high numbers of babies being born |
SOLUTIONS TO NORTH SOUTH INEQUALITIES | education, reduce the sale of arms, encourage fairer trading practices, restrict developed countries interfearing in nation al politics of the south |
TYPES OF AID TO SOUTH | NGO'S, bilateral, multilateral, irish aid programmes, |
NGO'S | non-govermental organisations, e.g GOAL, Trocaire |
BILATERAL | direct aid from one government to another |
MULTILATERAL | internatoonal institutations ( Red Cross, UN Agencies) provide aid |
EXAMPLES OF SPONSORED PROGRAMMES | school of Vetinary Medicine in University of Zambia given help to educate more vets |
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY IN IRELAND | eastern region around Dublin is richer than western region of Connacht |
MILITARY SPENDING | money spent on arms (guns) and soldiers |
REASONS WHY SOUTHERN ITALY IS UNDERDEVELOPED | relief is high , shallow soils, climate is hot, few raw materials, poor transport and communications dure to isolation |
REASONS WHY NORTERN ITALY IS WEALTHY | good sioils near the river Po leading to high agricultural output, good suply of raw materials, well established industries. |
DISADVANTAGES OF INTERNATIONAL AID | tied aid may benifit te donor country rather than the reciever, increased dependency of recipent country, |
ADVANTAGES OF INTERNATIONAL AID | emergency aid saves lives, health and agriculture have improved , sharing of earth resourses, creates links between North and South |