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- Purpose
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- SK
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- Format
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- Before we start could you please divide yourselves into four groups of x each, Farmer will look after you lot (Top Left), Riley is you (Top right), At the front Alison on this side (left) and Chris on the right.
- Try & leave a gap between your groups.
- (To tutors) you can join in as well.
- We are going to ask you some simple multiple choice questions. Unlike those test some of you may be familiar with, you cannot discuss your answers. When we ask you the questions they answers will be on the overheads, When we say your answer put your hand up.
- At the end of the quiz for each correct answer we will award your team one quality street, giving a potential (x time 4) per team. How you divide them up is your problem.
- Farmer will now explain what we are trying to acheive
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Alison,
Riley,
John,
Chris,
Steve
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- JH
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- Background
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- perceptions, are they correct, wrong, different, do they benefit, will they achieve objectives, who drives perceptions etc etc.
Hopefully you all know what your doing, so here is Riley with the first question
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- establishing shot of Happy natives playing Banjoes in the sun/Images of poverty
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- RM
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- Question 1
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- How do you define development?
- Please could you raise your hand for one answer only,
- 1 blah blah etc
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- And the correct answer is
TA DA
- Western perceptions of development are VERY different to those of people in the Global South therefore their strategies for development differ.
- Development should focus on people. It is not just about achieving economic growth but about improving the quality of life for the millions of poor people living in less developed countries. Development strategies are useless unless they lead to real poverty alleviation.
Western Perception of development is..??!!!
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- How do you define development?
a.THE RIGHT ANSWER not yet decided but will be from geographical dictionary will check it up on Monday
b.A growth in the GDP per capita of a country
c.Progression to the next stage of the Demographic Transition Model
d.An average of 3 cars per family
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- SK
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- Q2
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- One might imagine that a country well endowed with natural resources might 'develop' , by exploiting those resources efficientlly and profitably, ie would have enough 'cash'. My question is to ask you to estimate third world production of that most important of natural resources, oil:
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- "It is a common piece of mythology that the bulk of advanced nation consumption is only made possible by mass imports from the third world"
- Rees
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- What portion of the world's current oil production emanates from 'developing' countries?
- 1 blah blah etc
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- And the correct answer is
TA DA
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- What portion of the world's current oil production emanates from 'developing' countries?
- a.20 - 35%
- b.35 - 50%
- c.50 - 65%
- d.65 - 80%
- e.80 - 95%
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- Bearing in mind that The third world produces the majority of the world's oil, much of which is used by a cash rich customer, the west, The wisdom of cash aid might therefore be questioned,
- i.e. why can't the third world survive without handouts?
- With the scores standing at
- group 1 etc
I'm now going to let Alison ask you her question
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- Q3
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- Question: which country donated the most aid to 'developing' countries in 1998?
1 blah blah etc
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- a] USA
b] UK
c] Germany
d] Japan
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- And the correct answer is
TA DA
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Which with this team in the lead, brings us on to Chris and the last question
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- (million $)
- a] USA 4907
b] UK 2315
c] Germany 3373
d] Japan 6448
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- CM
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- Q4
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- Thanks pet. Hi, I'm Chris, a complete tosser and here's ma question.
- Since foreign aid was first institutionalised in the Marshall Plan of 1947, has aid as a percentage of donor nations GDP
- 1 blah blah etc
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- a.Increased
- b).Remained relatively constant
- c).Decreased
- d).Evaporated Completely
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- And the correct answer is
TA DA
- Foreign aid has been highly successful in reducing poverty in countries with sound economic management and robust government institutions. The number of countries that now meet the criteria for using aid well has increased dramatically in the 1990s. Yet aid has fallen to its lowest point in more than 50 years.
- A world bank report finds that, due to a wave of economic reform in developing countries in the 1990s, three out of four people afflicted by absolute poverty - nearly 2 billion people - live in countries where more foreign aid would speed up poverty reduction. But while the list of countries that can use aid effectively has risen, foreign aid has fallen to 0.22 percent of donor countries' GDP in 1997 - its smallest volume since it was first institutionalised with the Marshall Plan in 1947. Taking into account inflation, financial aid from rich countries to poor countries is one-third lower today than in 1990.
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- Questions
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- Does anybody have any questions
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- Conclusions
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- Aid is falling, but the scale of poverty is not
- The concept of development is highly contentious
- Are we nearer an answer which will relieve suffering and lead to a sustainable and equable future
JH Answer
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- Aid -
- Poverty +
- Development ?
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- CM
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- Short Answers in order with optomists last
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- SK
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- eg. the west must voluntarily reconsider it's perceptions of development radically, or run the risk of a hostile change in the status quo.
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- "We are winning battles but losing the war"
- Lester Young
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- RM
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- Short Answers in order with optomists last
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- AH
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- Short Answers in order with optomists last
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- Scores
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- On that optomistic note , I can only say we hope you have at least had your curiosity piqued. You havn't got a handout, because if you really want to find out more about the contents of this talk, it's all on the web site adress you have been given, along with sources and an expansion of our findings and thoughts.
- The winners, in reverse order
- We will be attending your lectures, so give us a good mark & a round of applause, (ALL BOW) thankyou
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- Western Perceptions of Development and impacts on aid flows
Alison,
Riley,
John,
Chris,
Steve
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