Quality of Life
- Created by: westanrevision
- Created on: 24-10-22 19:06
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- Quality of Life
- improvements in quality of life
- higher disposable income to spend
- improvements to infrastructure, such as roads
- better access to safe water and sanitation
- improved access to a better diet means higher productivity
- better quality health care
- reliable electricity supplies
- reliable, better-paid jobs in manufacturing or services
- however
- many people are still poor
- the gap between the rich and poor has become wider
- corruption has been a major factor and the oil wealth was not used to diversify the economy
- over-dependence on oil could become a problem
- 60% of Nigerians live in poverty
- if their quality of life is to be improved the following challenges must be met
- political - there is a need for continuing stable government to encourage inward investment
- environmental - there are threats of disease spread by the tsetse fly, desertification and pollution by oil spills
- social - historical distrust remains between tribal groups
- kidnappings by the militant group Boko Haram spread fear among Nigerians and potential investors
- if their quality of life is to be improved the following challenges must be met
- improvements in quality of life
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