International Organisations

World Bank
–Provide aid to reduce poverty in form of $$$ or tech
–Provide loans to LDCs at low or no interst
–Kecamatan Development Programme(KDP) in Indonesia
–Over US$ 890 mil in funds in loans and credits supplied to KDP
–Access to clean water and reliable water supply
Asian Development Bank
–Reduce poverty and improve QOL in terms of $$$ and tech assistance
–Asia Pacific Region
–Lends $$$ to LDCs such as Bangladesh
–Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge Project
–Improve the country’s transport infrastructure
International Agreements
United Nations Milennium Development Goals
–Get LDCs out of poverty
–Poverty, Hunger, diseases and lack of adequate shelter
–Extreme poverty and hunger in Vietnam greatly reduced
United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea
–Control the usage of resources in the seas and oceans of the world
–Not be overused and depleted
–Coastal states have right to fish or get oil from sea
–With advancements in tech, boats travel greater dist&fish further and result
in depletion of fish stocks
–Coastal countries have a fair chance at development
–h/r landlocked countries do not benefit from it
National Development
Improving Water Supply and Sanitation Facilities
–Parivartan Slum Networking Programme
–Improve living conditions of slum dwellers and better QOL
–Basic infrastructure, access to water supply, underground sewage
–Reduce spread of diseases

Development
’O’ Geography Elective
Notes
–Death rates declined
–Fewer suffered from general illnesses succeeded
Improving Education Standards
–Royal Thai Government
–Hill tribe communities
– Extreme poverty
–No formal education, illiterate
–Lower standard of living
–Government policy to provide Education for all
– Promote literacy
 –Able to find employment in cities
–Increase income, improve agricultural production
–Effectiveness limited, live in small communities, isolated
Population Ctrl– Ctrl pop– In china
–One Child Policy
–Difficult to implement
–Want sons, so keep giving birth
–Birth rates dropped
Job Creation& financial assistance
–Phillipines, KALAHI plan
– Improving SOL
–No formal education, no loans for SMEs so failed
–With KALAHI plan then more attention and resources given to informal sector
to develop
–Loans given to set up and run small businesses
–Ultra poor given interest free loans