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Ge g Your Memory…
Answer as many as you can!

Define what aid is 1 point

Name 2 different forms that emergency aid can take 2 points

Suggest 3 different groups/people/organisations that donate aid 3 points

Explain one social and one economic benefit of receiving aid, such
as a goat or cow for a rural African village.
4 points
 How else can we reduce the
development gap?

Can you work

out the
strategies from
the pictures?

Aims:
•To describe and explain how various strategies can be used to help reduce
the gap between HICs and LICs.
•Evaluate these strategies and suggest which is the most effective.
Reducing the Development Gap
• How confident are you with the following
terms?

TNC Investment Aid

Fairtrade Microfinance Tourism
Debt relief
Intermediate technology

Unsure Familiar Confident

You might have heard of it, You’ve heard of the word, You can define it and feel
or even never heard of it and roughly know what it confident using it in an
and not sure what it means means. explanation about how it
helps LICs
What other strategies reduce global inequalities?
Research activity
Research each strategy in the table below:
• What is it? Definitions and a brief summary of how your strategy works
• Key terms and ideas associated with your strategy
• Example(s)
• Advantages
• Disadvantages

What is it? Example A Positive A Negative

Debt relief

Intermediate Follow up activities

technology
1.Which of these strategies do you think offers the most
effective way for LICs to develop into NEEs? Justify your
Fair trade
choice in a paragraph in your books.

Microfinance loans 2.Design a quiz for the topic so far – aim for 5-10 quick-fire
or multiple choice quiz questions from any area of the
Development topic.
 Strategies for reducing the development gap
What is it? Example A Positive A Negative
Debt relief

Intermediate
technology

Fair trade

Microfinance
loans
 Intermediate technology – how does it
help LICs?
• Providing equipment and
techniques that are simple
and suitable for the people.
• Many people living in rural
areas in LICs do not have the
skills to maintain expensive
equipment.
The Hippo Roller was invented in 1991 in
• Small-scale, basic solutions South Africa to help make water more
are usually more appropriate. accessible to women and children living in
rural Africa.

The roller is a 90L plastic water carrier that can

be rolled along the ground using a metal
handle.
Intermediate technology – how does it
help LICs?
• WaterAid is a charity that
provides ‘intermediate
technology’ to rural villages
across the world so that they
can access safe, clean
drinking water.

Look at some of their examples:

https://www.wateraid.org/uk/th
e-crisis/water/water-technology
 What’s going on here?
Why is this an example of intermediate technology?

• Study Figure 7 - Bicycle ambulances in Malawi, Africa.

 Debt relief
• Many LICs owe money to
other countries.
• Often the repayments and
interest are so expensive that
indebted countries have no
money left to spend on
development projects.
• Debt relief is when debts are
Debt relief involves cancelling either reorganised to make
money owed, allowing more them more manageable, or
significant investment in reduced.
development projects such as road
building and health care.
 Microfinance loans
• Very small loans which
are given to people in
the LICs to help them
start a small business.

• The idea is that low-

income individuals are
capable of lifting
themselves out of
poverty if given access to
money to start their own
businesses.
How Microfinance Loans
work
Put the boxes in order to show how
microfinance loan works
How Microfinance Loans
work
Example of microfinance: Grameen
Bank of Bangladesh
•A bank that lends small amounts of
money to poor people who are
ignored by the conventional banking
system due to their lack of collateral.
•The bank has helped 7,000 micro-
lenders with 25 million clients
worldwide.
•Its method of small loans has
advanced the economic rights of
women in particular and has
contributed to national economic
growth.
Example exam question
How does Fairtrade help LICs?
 Fairtrade
• This banana costs 30p.
• Many people are involved in the life-cycle of this
banana. How much does each person get?
 Fairtrade
• This banana costs 30p.
• Many people are involved in the life-cycle of this
banana.
• How much of the 30p do you think you should get for
the jobs/work they do in the banana chain?
 Fairtrade
• A scheme designed to get a better
deal for the producers of the primary
products that LICs produce.
• The producers get:
– access to the market for their goods
– a contract (for extra financial security)
– better prices for their products
– access to the Fairtrade Premium (a sum
of money to be spent upon improving
yields, farming practices, health care or
education)
What does this graph tell us about the benefits for
farmers who are part of the Fairtrade scheme? (3 marks)
Most likely to…. Debt Relief Intermediate Fairtrade Microfinance
technology
Benefit poor, rural communities in
LICs

Help women in LICs

Help people economically (e.g. earn

more money)

Improves people’s health and

welfare

Benefit the government of LICs

Involve NGOs (e.g. charities)

Rely on HICs in order to work

Benefit the environment

Have long-lasting impacts

Be the most sustainable in your

opinion
Most likely to…. Debt Relief Intermediate Fairtrade Microfinance
technology
Benefit poor, rural communities in
LICs

Help women in LICs

Help people economically (e.g. earn

more money)

Improves people’s health and

welfare

Benefit the government of LICs

Involve NGOs (e.g. charities)

Rely on HICs in order to work

Benefit the environment

Have long-lasting impacts

Be the most sustainable in your

opinion
 How we reduce global inequalities?

Rank the 6 ways that we can help poor countries to reduce the development gap.
Which are best and which are worst?

Best solution Investment I think the best way to

and
industrial
help LICs develop is…
development because….

Aid Fair Trade

I think this is the least

Intermediate Microfinance Debt relief effective option
technology loans
because….

Worst solution
 How would you reduce global inequalities?

• Prepare your ideas

• Class Debate and justify your view!