World Development - what is needed and what can I do?

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A/S World Development

Assignment 1

To Create Lasting Change

1. What does everyone want and need?

Everyone wants to be treated equally and everyone needs the same basic requirements, food, clean water, sanitation, shelter, clothing, fuel, healthcare and love and support from family, friends and people in their community. Everyone needs to feel that they are needed and that they are a part of the society in which they live.  

They also want an education, a sufficient income, to live in a democracy and for their voices to be heard. They want to live in a healthy and safe environment.

2. What prevents them from having it?

Their government�s can prevent the poor people in third world countries getting aid, as any money which is sent to the country hardly ever gets to them because the government who are already wealthy enough, just take it from them, for themselves, and for buying weapons.

Third world developing countries miss out on eating some foods from their own countries because Western countries are prepared to pay a higher price for their food; this is damaging to everyone�s world for example pollution and also the use of the poor people for cheap labour. So long as there is a demand for a product, the people in developing countries will stay in work and earn very little money instead of having an education, which in the long run would enable them to earn a better wage, improving their lives and their country�s economy. In the UK 40% of the food has been imported.

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3. How do you change it all?

We can help the third world countries by buying fair trade products such as bananas and chocolate, also by buying ethically sourced clothes and products and by putting pressure on businesses which are discovered to be using cheap labour, such as the pressure put on Primark after undercover filming in sweat shops using child labour.

We can also help by changing lifestyle and diet choices, for example by becoming a vegetarian. This means less land would be used. About 2500 sq m of land will ...

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