Geography AID summary brief
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- Created on: 02-04-16 10:07
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- Long Term
- AID SUMMARY
- Giving help / improving development
- giving resources
- food/water, mosquito nets, health care, tools/seeds, technology, help, assistance & skills
- giving money
- Short Term
- after crisis: natural disaster, war, famine
- E.G. Oxfam - £3 / month for water to Syria
- disadvantages
- doesn't help development in long term
- relies on charities & donations > donor fatigue (don't commit)
- advantages
- alleviates suffering
- immediate effect
- once crisis is over - aid is withdrawn > no dependence
- not appropriate technology - not suited to environment it's placed in
- bilateral aid - 2 countries
- often tied aid
- multilateral aid - many countries through organisation (e.g. United Nations)
- E.G. Send-A-Cow - UK to Uganda (NGO)
- disadvantages
- not immediate solution
- relies on donations & charity
- bad conditions & long distance transport for animals
- disadvantages
- sustainable > benefits future generations
- E.G. Pergau Dam - UK & Malaysia
- tied aid
- had impacts on locals - had to be rehoused / lost access to river water
- involved governments not local poor people in need
- produced hydroelectric power
- AID SUMMARY
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