Year 11 - Geography
Bottom-up strategies to reduce global inequalities
Global inequalities
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Unit Summary
This unit teaches pupils about global economic development. Pupils learn how, using a variety of measures, economic development is unequal and how this is reflected in demographic characteristics. Pupils learn about the causes and consequences of inequality and consider how they can be reduced.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to describe the advantages and disadvantages of bottom-up strategies used to reduce global inequalities.
Key Notes
- Top-down and bottom-up strategies to reduce global inequalities differ in scale, aims, funding and technology.
- Aid takes different forms, from NGO-supported, small-scale projects to larger IGO donations and bilateral aid.
- NGOs can help communities to develop and maintain essential infrastructure, using intermediate technology.
- In Nepal, Practical Action's gravity ropeway has improved the lives of people in a remote, rural community.
Vocabulary To Learn
- non-governmental organisation: NGOs work to achieve social or political aims that are not controlled by a government, e.g. Practical Action
- intermediate technology: technology suited to the needs, skills, knowledge and wealth of local people in the environment in which they live
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Aid is something given in the event of an emergency.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this geography topic using two clear key points.
Top-down and bottom-up strategies to reduce global inequalities differ in scale, aims, funding and technology. Aid takes different forms, from NGO-supported, small-scale projects to larger IGO donations and bilateral aid.
2. Define this geography term and use it in an example. 'non-governmental organisation'
NGOs work to achieve social or political aims that are not controlled by a government, e.g. Practical Action.
3. Correct this common geography misunderstanding.
Mistake: Aid is something given in the event of an emergency. Correction: It is not always provided in the event of an emergency. Aid may be given to support the sustainable development of a community, e.g improving health or educational services in an area, to benefit local people in the longer term.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Causes of global inequalities Study Guide
- Consequences of global inequalities Study Guide
- Defining development Study Guide
- Development and demography Study Guide
- Measuring development Study Guide
- Rostow's and Frank's theories about development over time Study Guide
- Top-down strategies to reduce global inequalities Study Guide
- Using GIS maps to analyse links between inequality and migration Study Guide
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