issues of development
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ISSUES OF DEVELOPMENT. What follows tend to apply to most LEDCs, but not to all. Access to Food. Enough grain is produced to feed everyone more than 3000 calories a day. MEDCs dump food rather than sell it for a price that is too low. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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ISSUES OF DEVELOPMENT
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What follows tend to apply to most LEDCs,
but not to all.
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Access to Food
• Enough grain is produced to feed everyone more than 3000 calories a day.
• MEDCs dump food rather than sell it for a
price that is too low.
• There have never been so many people suffering from starvation or malnutrition than now.
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Why?
It is not being distributed effectively.
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Reasons
• The producer sells to the person that will pay the highest price.
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• Food aid
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Although food production per capita is increasing in most parts of the world, it is declining in Africa.
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Why?
• Growing population
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Characteristics of farming
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• The impact of agricultural reforms has not been felt
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Characteristics of farming
• Subsistence farming (no specialization)• Traditional farming methods (broadcasting
seeds, wooden ploughs and animal power)• Poor storage facilities (insect pests)• Small divided landholdings• Absentee landlords • Agribusiness companies encourage commercial
crops• Smaller number of people engaged in agriculture
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Some countries have been more successful
(Green Revolution)
• H.Y.V.s• Irrigation schemes• Chemical pesticides and fertilizers• Mechanisation
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Access to Shelter
Shortage of accommodation is one of the most common characteristics of cities in LEDCs due to:
1. Less taxation2. Larger proportion of income spent on food3. Few large profits available for private developers4. Massive rural-urban migration (shanty towns)
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Access to Health and Education
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Increased health risk
• More travel opportunities• Overcrowding and poverty• Poor water quality• Lack of toilets• Malaria (cannot afford draining swamps,
rice fields)• Bilharzia
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Industrialisation
• Labour-intensive, not capital-intensive• Import substitution• Export processing zones (EPZs) - offering
tax holidays, low interest loans, cheap labour, exemption from normal import taxes and duties and assistance). India, Puerto Rico.
• Special Economic Zones (SEFs). China• Tourism
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Debt
• Debt-trap (sometimes more than aid)
• Terms of trade has turned on the LEDCS (slower rise in price on raw materials than manufactured goods)
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Ecologically Sustainable Development
Several phases of the study of development since World War II.
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Structural change phase (the 1940s to the 1960s)
Rostow• The pathway to development was seen
as the route followed by Western Europe and North America during the Industrial Revolution.
• Five stages: - traditional society - economic “take-off”
- maturity - high mass consumption
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Dependency approach (1970s)
• Seeks to explain global patterns of development • China, Vietnam, Tanzania and Cuba followed
different strategies.• Core-periphery model (unequal distribution of
power - colonization, transnational companies encourage unprofitable raw materials)
• Growth poles (where economic and political power is concentrated)
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Neo-liberal counter-revolution (the 1980s)
• Free market economics• Industries in LEDCs should compete
effectively or close down.• Competed to attract foreign investment
to introduce modern technology to upgrade inefficient industries.
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Sustainable development (the 1990s)
The Brundtland Report• “development which meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”
• So development that increases pollution, reduces the resource base, reduces biodiversity or changes the global environment is unacceptable because it cannot be sustained in the long-term.
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Identifies barriers to development
1. Heavy reliance on fossil fuels (acid rain, global warming,
deforestation, health problems, TNCs more powerful than nation-states).
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2. Population growth (Development is only possible if
population grows in a way that is in harmony with the changing productive capacity of the world´s ecosystems).
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3. Lack of a strong institutional framework to oversee the process of development, in other words of ecological and environmental decision-making).
(Governments often argue that concern for the environment is a luxury enjoyed by those who are already wealthy).