What factors make global inequalities worse
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- Created on: 30-05-15 13:01
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- What factors make global inequalities worse
- Physical factors
- Landlocked countries make trade hard which hinders development
- Climate can cause climate related disease, people are so ill that they can't improve living standards.
- Climatic hazards such as drought and floods limit future development and destroy what may have been acheived
- Poor soil causes difficulties with agriculture which can affect living standards and development
- Economic factors
- Poverty causes poverty
- The poorest countries are those coming out of civil wars
- A history of famine and war make trade difficult.
- Global trade policies do not favour the poor countries, tariffs are placed on certain goods
- Companies do not invest in certain countries due political instability, corrupt banks, bad infrastructure, an un-reliable electricity, no educated work force
- Environmental factors
- people abuse the land, e.g farmers on the edge of starvation cut down rainforests to try and feed their family.
- Deforestation and overgrazing has led to increased desertification
- Wildlife sacrificed by poachers could have been the basis of a good tourism industry.
- Poor governments have little spare to protect and develop environmental resources.
- Social factors
- Poor water quality causes disease, which debilitates people and prevents economic development.
- Many tropical countries suffer from malaria, yellow fever and river blindness. Diseases are carried in the water and water quality is unreliable.
- Inadequate water supplies limit crop yields and therefore food supply, there is not enough water for irrigation to allow yield to be increased.
- A poor country finds it difficult to fund education for all children to a good level.
- Investors are put off by a lack of educational workforce.
- A poor country is not able to maintain a good health system
- It is difficult for sick people to work hard and so the economy of the country spirals downward.
- Physical factors
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