Aid to foreign countries
Advantages and Disadvantages of Aid to an LEDC Many countries are given aid, with this aid comes the question if it is good or bad since there are both advantages but also disadvantages. What type of aid is best long term aid or short term aid, and what are the pro's and con's of these. Giving money to an organization does not mean that all the money you give will be used to help these people. When aid is sent to a country it often happens that everything has to go thru government officials, this means that when we for instance ship food some might be kept, and therefore the people who it is meant for will not get everything that was meant for them. Emergency Aid is a whole different thing than the aid that is given on normal basses. Emergency Aid is a rapid assistance given to people that are in immediate distress it is given to relief these people from suffering. It is only for a short period of time to help them back up. These people just need short term aid so that they can get everything together, they don't have to be taught how to do things. Agricultural aid can help increase the food quantity and quality, this most likely means that more people will be able to supply themselves with food. However not everything is what it seems these projects are sometimes run by foreign companies and mostly on bigger scales and therefore the smaller farmers will usually not
Global Dimming
Global Dimming Geography IB HL Mr. Verity Nils Werner Global Dimming Global dimming is an alarming phenomenon. Visible pollution particles that are released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned cause global dimming. Similar to global warming, this process changes rainfall patterns worldwide. The amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the earth in the Middle-Eastern region has decrease by twenty-two percent because more sunlight is being reflected back into space. The visible pollutant particles from burning fossil fuels reflect sunlight and cause an increase in precipitation by causing more droplets to form. This causes clouds to reflect even more sunlight. It is very likely that global dimming has been disguising the negative effects of global warming by stopping some of the sun's energy from reaches the surface of the earth. A worldwide effort is being done to a control or limitation on pollution. There is a very possibility that as the air becomes less polluted by soot and sulphur dioxide, global dimming will decrease, consequently causing the effects of global warming to increase. America is a more economically developed country and is experiencing a very high level of global dimming due to their level aviation travel. Post 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York created the ideal opportunity to find out whether contour
Geography Essay : Can China Feed Itself
ESSAY Can China Feed Itself? SOURCE 1: Geographical situation of China1 The geography of China stretches some 5,026 kilometers across the East Asian landmass bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam in a changing configuration of broad plains, expansive deserts, and lofty mountain ranges, including vast areas of non-exploitable terrain. The eastern half of the country, the seacoast fringed with offshore islands, is a region of fertile lowlands, foothills and mountains, deserts, steppes, and subtropical areas. The western half of China is a region of sunken basins, rolling plateaus, and towering massifs, including a portion of the highest tableland on earth. China had an estimated population of 1,330,044,544 in July 2008 and is expected to increase in the coming years. Ruled by a communist government, its economy progressed a lot since it moved from a centrally planned economy to a more oriented market-economy toward the end of the 1970s. 2 Even though China is a country developing at a very fast rate and taking over the world's markets, there are several problems arising from this fast development. The issue that is going to be looked at is concerning the food situation in the country and the question "Can China feed itself?" is to be answered. Two major points will be considered in this answer, these
Pro-natalist Australia
Pro-natalist, Australia Background Information Australia is considered the most sparely populated continent in terms of the population density, 2.6 persons per km2. Like most of the developed countries are having problems with the issues of population, Australia is not exceptional. In fact, there has been the substantial fall in fertility rates since 1960s. Australia's total fertility rate has declined from 3.5 in 1961 to 1.73 in 2001, and in 2007 was 1.93 babies per woman with two child families the most common type. Also, there are concerns of the ageing of the Australian population, implying that there are fewer babies being born compared with a number of elderly population increased by life expectancy. Australia's population is ageing and the evidence for this demographic change is undeniable. The result of falling fertility, increasing life expectancy and the effect of the baby boomer generation moving through older age groups, has contributed to an increase in the number and proportion of people aged over 65 years. These trends are anticipated to continue and numbers of people aged over 65 years and proportions of people over 85 years are growing while proportion of the population aged between 15 and 64 years (labor force age) are falling. The main cause of the falling fertility rates is the increased empowerment of women. In Australia, greater numbers of females
The Growth of India as a Global Economic Power.
NAME : KRITI MALHOTRA COLLEGE : LADY SHRIRAM COLLEGE COURSE : POLITICAL SCIENCE [HONS] YEAR : 1ST POST : FREELANCE INDIA AS A GLOBAL ECONOMIC POWER History proves how Britain as a power ruled almost a decade on the economic front. And then US hegemony surpassed the economic growth and increased its influence not just in economic aspect, but also in the cultural sphere. Wherein, the whole world was expected [is still expected] to follow the Bretton Woods system of economic arrangement to achieve growth and development as stupendous as that of the US. With the Independence of India in 1947, India adopted a socialist pattern of economic policies till 1980s, which were more or less protectionist in nature. Its demerits left India to struggle with debts, but soon in 1991, our nation adopted the NEP [New Economic Policy] opening up new avenues for the nation to explore with a strong focus on Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization. Today our economy is the twelfth largest in the world, with extensive labour power [ second largest in the world] and the PPP [Purchasing Power Parity] being fourth largest. India is also a major player in the international politics as well. But, the fact being that despite the tremendous economic growth rates reported in the recent decades, a large chunk of Indian population still remains poor. The economic growth in India has
What are the effects of global warming and initiatives taken by Wales and Iceland to reduce these effects?
Transfer-Encoding: chunked What are the effects of global warming and initiatives taken by Wales and Iceland to reduce these effects? An introduction to global warming Climate change stemming from human activity is one of the greatest challenges to mankind in the 21st century. Climate change is a global issue, and measures designed to reduce it cannot be successful unless the nations of the world act together in a co-ordinated and harmonious manner. The countries of the world have joined forces under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was ratified in 1992, and the Kyoto Protocol to that Convention, which was ratified in 1997 and took effect in 2005. Global warming is an international issue that inevitably will affect everyone at some point, whether it is low coastline villages in MEDC’s, or farmers in less developed countries such as Africa. Global warming is a natural phenomenon that is extremely important in the process of keeping the Earth warm; however as people have dismissively used our natural resources, we have enhanced the greenhouse effect, ultimately causing a chain reaction of problems. The greenhouse effect occurs whereby solar radiation is emitted by the sun as short wave radiation, then absorbed and re-emitted as long wave radiation. The gases in the atmosphere such as water vapour, methane and carbon dioxide absorb the
Global Warming
Global Warming Global warming is a serious problem that is endangering our life and the life of our planet. The temperature of the earth has reached record levels. The level of CO2 has reached and overcome all the records previously registered. The whole ecosystem is changing. The flowers are blooming in winter, the birds are returning in February. The seasons are changing too. Winter is disappearing, spring is getting hotter and summer is getting longer. A single individual change in life of a single person will not be able to make a difference to our planet, but if all of us decide to change our way of living by becoming more concerned about the environment and the emission levels of CO2 it will make a huge difference to the world overall. The temperatures are increasing, the ice caps are melting and the sea level is increasing. All those things are caused by global warming which is caused by human beings. The cars, the fabrics and the oil platforms in the sea are producing so much CO2 that the atmosphere layers are getting more dense so the solar radiations reflected by the sea or the earth are reflected back from the atmosphere layers. These things cause the rise in temperature year after year, the rising temperatures cause the ice caps to melt and because of this the sea level rises. Those factors are damaging the ecosystem of the earth. The problems that the raising
global warming
Investigation Introduction: This project is to try to convince people to save our planet by explaining the main problem of global warming and how they can help to save our planet. I think that all the population over the world is involved because of industrialization and the way of life we have today. What I will like to do is to aware people about this problem and to help them understand that if we don't do something for it , in the future ours lives will be in danger! Investigation: What is Global warming? Global warming is the increase of average world temperatures as a result of what is known as the greenhouse effect. Certain gases in the atmosphere act like glass in a greenhouse, allowing sunlight through to heat the earth surface but trapping the heat as it radiates back into space. As the green house gases built up in the atmosphere the earth get hotter. 1 What is the green house effect? The greenhouse effect is the rise in temperature that the Earth experiences because certain gases in the atmosphere (water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane, for example) trap energy from the sun. Without these gases, heat would escape back into space and Earth's average temperature would be about 60ºF colder. Because of how they warm our world, these gases are referred to as greenhouse gases. The Earth's atmosphere is all around us. It is the air that we
China One Child Policy
Case Study China One Child Policy History China has the world's largest population, and it's cities are the most densely populated ones. It's policy is one of the most recognized policy, since is the most rigid of any country. The policy admites only one child per couple, and because of this it is called the "One Child Policy". Before 1949, before the communists had the power, China was at stage 1 of demographic transition model, and families had betwen 5 and 8 children. Also there was a high death rate, and a low life expectation. Infant mortality rate was also high, and so with death rate and birth rate, which means that the population was increasing at a very slowly rate. In these days, large families where encouraged, since the government followed a pro-natalistic population policy. Ten years later in 1960, the population increased dramatically to 100million people more, which determined China in the second stage of the demographic transition model. As a result improvements where made in medical services. In 1976, whith the death of Mao, the government decided to advocate voluntary population control to reduce the birth rate. China began to advice about limiting family sizes and to distribute information about the need to control the population growth. Finally in 1980, the One Child Policy was introduced, which provided benefits for couples which had only one
China's One Child Policy
Sasha Zouev Geography 09/11/05 China's One Child Policy China is the 3rd biggest country in the world in terms of land area. However in terms of population, China is by far the leading nation with a population of roughly 1,306,313,000 people (2005 est). Brief History of China's Population 1905 - 1978 China was founded in 1949 at a time when the country had a population of about 540 million. Within three decades the population was above 800 million. This record population boost from the 1950s to the 1970s fashioned a strong population momentum that is motivating China's population expansion in spite of already low levels of fertility. It is hypothesized that China's population will grow to some 1.48 billion. Nonetheless, all of this growth will take place during the next 25 years. In its most recent medium variant projection, the UN Population Division estimates that China's population will rise by 260 million between 1995 and 2025. This certainly causes a major crisis for China's food supply: within only three decades the nation will have to feed an additional 260 million people (equivalent to the total population of the USA). At the bottom of the Chinese population pyramid (see fig. 1) one can again see large associates that were born between 1985 and 1990. They are almost as large as the birth cohorts during the "baby boom" years. However, these large number of
