What are the different forms of aid given by more economically developed countries (MEDCs) to less economically developed countries (LEDCs)? Explain how useful the aid is and evaluate why some aid is more successful than other aid.
What are the different forms of aid given by more economically developed countries (MEDCs) to less economically developed countries (LEDCs)? Explain how useful the aid is and evaluate why some aid is more successful than other aid. Hafiza Bhabha 11 JT Aid... many less developed countries (LEDCs) rely on aid. In the Oxford dictionary aid is defined as, "Something that helps, money, food, etc. Sent to another country to help it..." Aid is not only given by countries (governments) but is also given by organisations which help a certain place or fund a certain project, such as Oxfam who helps those children in Africa. The real purpose of giving aid is to help those countries that need to develop their economy so that they can improve their standard of living and quality of living. At times giving and receiving aid is complex, as it may not benefit the country, as it could be unsuccessful. Many developing countries need aid because they may have large and increasing trade debts, unfortunately they need to borrow money from MEDCs, however, sometimes by doing this, they fall into bigger, more dangerous debts. Other issues such as earthquakes, volcanoes, etc, also lead countries to borrow more money. This aid is usually only needed for a short period of time. Short-term aid is aid, which is given immediately and is only needed for a small amount of time. This is used with
Christian Aid - A Charity Helping Poverty
Christian Aid In order for organisation to be successful and to achieve their aims to its best a lot of money is needed. This money comes from many fund raisings, such as the Christian aid week. Christian aid week has been known as a nation wide charity event that takes place in May each year, since 1957. The towns are divided up the leader churches, and each house in the selected areas is presented with a Christian aid charity envelope for a week and by the end of the week they are collected back in. These envelopes contain a short story and information leaflet explaining what and where that particular fund is going to be used on. Fund raisings from the year 2000 to 2001 had 22% out £53,143,000 was raised by the Christian aid week. The rest of the 78% was raised up by other incomes such as the general donations (which also provided 22%); legacies (12%), government and other grants(27%), emergency appeals(11%), denominational appeals(2%), and remaining 4% come from other incomes. Many of the extra fund raising events are taken place throughout the year by churches and individuals supporting events like sponsor walks and jumble sales etc. Furthermore, Christian aid has created their own website for people to give donation online, also providing people with latest disaster news, charity events and other information. Christian aid supplies help in two major ways,
Fair Trade
What is Fair Trade? Fairtrade does what it says on the label; it guarantees a better deal to producers in the developing world. This means a stable price which covers their production costs, along with a premium that their organisation will be able to reinvest either in the business or social and environmental schemes among the wider community. Too many farmers in the developing world have to contend with fluctuating prices that may not even cover what it costs to produce their crop. So Fairtrade can make a big impact on their day-to-day life. And on their future and that of their family. The need for fair trade International trade may seem a remote issue, but when commodity prices fall dramatically it has a catastrophic impact on the lives of millions of small scale producers, forcing many into crippling debt and countless others to lose their land and their homes. Products like coffee, tea and chocolate, that we in the north have come to depend on, are produced in the warmer climates of the south. The prices paid for these commodities have not risen in real terms over the last forty years, whilst the value of fertilisers, pesticides and machinery (imported from the rich countries) has increased substantially. Consequently many of the people who grow these crops are having to work harder and longer for less money. On top of this the market price of commodities
Free trade and The world trade organisation.
Economics Free trade is when all the barriers that prevent countries from trading with each other are removed, market forces operate to provide the best allocation of resources and maximise world economic welfare. The world trade organisation was set up in 1995 to encourage free trade in goods and services and succeeded the general agreement on tariffs and trade. The aim of the world trade organisation is to help trade flow smoothly, freely, fairly and predictably. The European union evolved from the European coal and steel community, which was formed in 1951 as a response to the first and second world wars to try to ensure peace in Europe. This became the European Economic Community in 1965, which in turn became the European union in 1992 following the signing of the Maastricht treaty. The 25 members of the European union are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. 2 of these 25 countries are a part of the single currency- the euro, which was introduced in these countries in January 2002. The United Kingdom has selected to stay outside of the euro. I believe that free trade is a benefit because it increases production by enabling the countries to specialise in the production of
A Discussion of Aid and Development in Zimbabwe.
CONTENTS Introduction page 2-3 World Bank page 3-8 Non-Governmental Organisations page 8-11 Government, politics and aid page 11-15 Corruption page 15-16 Conclusion page 16-17 Bibliography page 17-18 A Discussion of Aid and Development in Zimbabwe. Introduction Zimbabwe is located in Southern Africa between South Africa and Zambia and also boarders with Botswana and Mozambique. The country has many resources available for exploitation, such as coal, gold, iron ore and copper. However, this is a country that is frequently plagued with devastating droughts. This has a huge effect on its 11,000,000 population, of which 8,000,000 are dying of starvation (www.news.bbc.co.uk). Zimbabwe was initially a British Colony and in 1961 there was a constitution that favoured the control of Zimbabwe to whites, by 1965 Zimbabwe had declared itself independent from Britain, however this was not recognised by the UK. In 1979 there was a UN sanction and an uprising by guerrilla groups leading to free elections and finally
Education aid
VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY - HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES FACULTY OF ENGLISH LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE ----------???---------- Education aid for Under graduate students In the United States And In Vietnam Class: 05C Students: Nguyên Trân Ðuc Huy Trân Thi Tuyêt Mai Lâm Nguyên Hanh Uyên 12/2008 I. INTRODUCTION Education is the key to unlocking human potential. The acquisition of skills and knowledge enable people to overcome poverty and disease. Education helps people come out of oppression and alienation and take control of their lives. The higher education we pursue, the more expensive fees we must pay; and in some cases, we cannot have enough money for higher education, especially in university level or higher. However, there are many ways to explore opportunities that can turn our dream of going to the university into reality. We can take the advantages from grants and scholarship, loans and wages for our tuition. II. EDUCATION AID FOR UNDER GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND IN VIETNAM 1. Grants and scholarships. Grants and scholarships are attractive ways to pay for college because you do not need to repay the money. a. In the U.S In the U.S, grants require some form of grants writing often referred to as either proposals or submissions. Grants require a service and the organization that
Food Aid, who benefits?
What is Food Aid Food aid is about providing food and related assistance to tackle hunger, either in emergency situations, or to help with deeper, longer term hunger alleviation and achieve food security (where people do not have to live in hunger or in fear of starvation). Introduction Food aid constituted over 20% of global aid flows in the 1960s, but is now less than 5%. Yet, it is still important because of the world hunger and the increase in food emergencies in the past decade. The decline of food aid, as well as the way in which it is delivered and used, are therefore of importance. Many people believe that food aid benefits the receiving countries and have no side effects whatsoever, but this belief, this perception is clearly false. No doubt food aid does help the receiving countries in the short run to get out of emergency famine situations, but the long run consequences of food aid are clearly not well known to many people and as such, I will be discussing on this issue of Food Aid: Appearance vs Reality. Food Aid Helps According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, more than 25 000 people die of starvation every day, more than 800 million people are chronically undernourished. On average, every five seconds a child dies from starvation. There is no doubt that many countries are facing a huge shortage of food and the people in
Poverty and Christian aid
POVERTY What defines poverty? Poverty can be defined as the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions. It is safe to say that a vast majority of people living in wealthy countries such as England, USA, West Germany, and Australia highly enjoy the luxurious lifestyles they lead. They have absolutely everything they need but we seem to take our living conditions for granted. We should think of what the other side of the world has to go through. Imagining living in a country or possibly a desert without food or water, no clothing and having to use cardboard boxes to warm ourselves would be a complete disaster but this is basically what poverty is all about except half of the world do this today. The most obvious reasons why many people are hungry are because they are either too poor to afford any or they live in different parts of the world where they have infertile soils to produce food for themselves. Two different problems often tend to happen when there isn't enough money for food; young children easily catch diseases, known as 'marasmus', due to insufficient food of any kind a result of skinny wasted bodies, shriveled up skin, loss of hair and massive round eyes. Other obvious diseases are malaria, sleeping sicknesses, river blindness and bilharzias where children suffer the most in Africa. Almost 20, 000 children die from different illnesses
Christian and Muslim Aid Agencies.
Christian and Muslim Aid Agencies One Muslim aid Agency - Muslim Aid Muslim Aid was founded in November 1985 in London by 23 leading British Muslim Organisation. It was started as a result of continuing conflicts and disasters round the world, especially in the developing countries. The aim was to eradicate the sufferers of poverty, war and natural disasters. In its debut year, Muslim Aid delivered emergency relief to thousands of people affected by the devastating famine in Ethiopia, continuing wars in Palestine and Afghanistan and widespread flooding in Bangladesh. Muslim Aid is an Organisation that concentrates on responding rapidly to emergencies in developing countries. It provides short-term aid in the cases of natural disasters; famine and wars ands is also involved with long-term development schemes. Examples of these would be provision of clean water, shelter, education, income-generation and healthcare. All of the long-term causes are there to tackle the roots of poverty - to make the countries more developed. In the beginning of the aid agency, Muslim Aid concentrated on more emergency/short-term aid, it is now focusing more of the long-term development scheme so that the countries can be free of poverty for a lifetime instead of a day. By 1994 projects on education, healthcare, skills training and water & irrigation had accounted for half of Muslim Aid's
free trade
If free trade is so advantageous to everyone, why have many countries attempted to increase protection for their own industries and farms in recent years? Free trade is the situation where there are no restrictions on trade between nations, such as tariffs, import quotas and other barriers. According to Mankiw (2004: 183), free trade definitely increases the total social welfare but also creates the winners and losers. The significance is that the gains of the winners exceed the losses of the losers, thus the total surplus for one country still increases (ibid.). However, the debate of whether to support free trade has not stopped. People who support free trade consider it will maximise the total welfare while others argue that it may threaten the national economy, especially in developing countries, since the world marketplace is not as perfect as the supporters have estimated. They also claim that appropriate protection could keep the social stability and maximise national income. This essay will examine the main reasons of protectionism from four arguments: infant industry, strategic trade theory, job crises and unfair competition. Protectionism is the process of government economic protection for domestic industries by establishing trade barriers or subsidising domestic producers (Bannock, et al. 2003: 314). The old argument for protectionism is the 'infant
