Reducing Disparities
Live Aid - 1985.
Objective: Discuss the different ways in which disparities can be reduced with an emphasis on the following: Trade & Market Access, Debt Relief, Aid & Remittances.
Background Reading - Turn to page 28 - 31 of the IB Geography Study Guide. You will need to be familiar with all of the content in here and it will come in useful with the joint group project that you are about to embark on.
Task - You will be contributing in teams of five students to a document that will examine each of the four factors of this unit of work. We will be applying a pre-determined case study to each of the four factors and the end product with be a multi-page report on the issues surrounding the reduction of disparities globally. The framework for your document including an introduction written by Mr Podbury is available to download by clicking the blue button below.
Background Reading - Turn to page 28 - 31 of the IB Geography Study Guide. You will need to be familiar with all of the content in here and it will come in useful with the joint group project that you are about to embark on.
Task - You will be contributing in teams of five students to a document that will examine each of the four factors of this unit of work. We will be applying a pre-determined case study to each of the four factors and the end product with be a multi-page report on the issues surrounding the reduction of disparities globally. The framework for your document including an introduction written by Mr Podbury is available to download by clicking the blue button below.
Case Study 1 - Trade
Fairtrade and Africa.
Links
http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/ http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/vol16no2/162reg3.htm Additional task - listen to the Guardian Online Pod Cast by clicking on the black tab below. Take notes on the key themes under study. Since the launch of the first Fairtrade label 25 years ago, the UK market has doubled every two years. Now close to 20% of all bananas and coffee sold in the UK bear the label. Once a small, grassroots movement, today fair trade seems fully mainstream. But what difference has fair trade made? Does it go far enough? Is the movement still relevant? And where does fair trade need to go next? |
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Case Study 2 - Market Access
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Task 1 - Watch the first video and make notes on what trade is and what a 'Trading Bloc' is.
Task 2 - Watch the second video to the right and make notes on how trading blocs work. Make notes on:
Task 3 - Study this BBC webpage. Can you identify any trading blocs that encourage trade between MEDC's & NICs or LEDCs? Task 4 - Turn to page 45 of the IB Textbook and read information and take notes on trading blocs and how they help to reduce disparities. |
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Case Study 3 - Debt Relief
Live8 and Make Poverty History
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case study 4 - Aid
Starter: Watch the video below from the Bill & Melinda Gates (Microsoft) Foundation. Make notes on how foreign aid works.
Heroin to Farming
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Case Study 5 - Remittances
Payments to and from AfricaLinks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U8yaU01UH4 http://www.ifad.org/media/press/2009/47.htm http://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/how-will-the-financial-crisis-affect-remittances-to-africa http://allafrica.com/stories/200811111001.html http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2007/06/gupta.htm January 2013 - How much do migrants send home. Excellent interactive graphic from Guardian Online. Feb 2013 Update - India tops the Remittances league. March 2013 Update - Money transfers from workers abroad to family back home have tripled in a decade and are three times larger than global aid budgets - Guardian link here |
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