Natural disaster
Many LEDC’s are situated in areas in the world where natural disasters are very common an earthquake tsunami or a flood can destroy many thousands of homes and villages and the farmland on which the people depend on if there is a drought crops will not grow unless people have the money to build wells which is very rare
Debt
Most LEDC's have to borrow money from the world bank or other major banks situated in MEDC's to survive or develop however these banks charge colossal amounts of interest so a LEDC can find itself paying more in interest than the country borrowed in the first place in the early seventies for example Chile borrowed 3.9 billion dollars by 1982 the country had paid 12.8 billion dollars in interest alone this extra interest could have been used to speed up Chile’s development instead it went to a country that already had enough money because unpaid interest adds to the original debt the amount of interest poor countries have to pay to rich countries has vastly increased
Unfair Trade
Most of the worlds trade Is done by MEDC's they often determine the prices of the products which is often produced in LEDC’s most people in poor countries work in agriculture and a way for them to increase their wealth would be for them to grow extra crops and export their extra to earn money from MEDC's they often give them very low prices for their products this means poor countries are being kept poor by the trade policies of rich countries.
AIDS/HIV
This disease is wiping out the LEDC’s the methods of safe sex and contraception and the drugs to control the disease used in the MEDC’s are beyond the price range of any LEDC it is estimated that if AIDS is not controlled by 2010 one quarter of all the children in south Africa will have lost their parents to aids so there will be more kids than adults and the children will not be able to have a education this will only cause the country to become poorer there only hope is us in the rich countries
I think there is an urgent need for world development because the longer it is not dealt with the worse it gets there is a decline there is a need for world development because we are all dependant on each other. If we want a raw material for example cotton from Sudan then we need to make sure that the people producing this raw product have enough to eat around 1.2 billion people in the world live on less than 50pence a day, 115 million children have no access to education and millions suffer from malnutrition whilst the UK and the USA have obesity problems this is a major difference between the two countries and the LEDC’s that have hardly any food this seems to me like injustice there are 4 main reasons for the worlds authorities to need to work for world development
The united nations made a universal declaration of human rights in 1948 all countries that are part of the UN
Article 1 states: “all human beings are born and equal in dignity and rights they are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards on another in a spirit of brotherhood
Article 25 states: “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services
Article 26 states: “everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary educations shall be compulsory”
The world is now a “global village” this means that not only aeroplanes make it easier to access other parts of the world but the things like internet e- mail and telecommunication these things have made the world a much smaller place and people in different parts of the world rely on each other we are inter-reliant the MEDC’s rely on the LEDC’s for essentials such as copper, uranium, tea, coffee and cotton mostly raw materials that often involve hard labour and hard work they are often paid very little for these products that is why organisations such as fair trade have started up fair trade aims to give farmers and people in LEDC’s who produce products to give them a little more money if the poor nations are not rewarded satisfactorily for this then they may not produce them later on
The world works on an economic system known as capitalism. This system means that people are free to set up companies and businesses and sell products that they think people will want to buy this system has led to most of the worlds technological advances owners try to sell things that will make him as much money as possible the system also raises the standard of living for the employees of the company however the system need people to have money to buy their products in the first place do it is in the interest of the major companies in the MEDC’s to promote world development
If poor countries feel alienated from the rich countries then they may turn to violence and terrorism perpetrated by groups fighting against the government of their own country or other countries to try and feel a sense of equality or to get recognized
