Strategies to support development
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can explain different ways to support development and evaluate the effectiveness of top-down strategies.
Key learning points
- Strategies to support development can be top-down or bottom-up
- Investment, aid, debt relief and fairtrade are all strategies to reduce the development gap
- All strategies to reduce the development gap have strengths and weaknesses.
Keywords
Investment - where money is spent in a country to improve infrastructure or resources
Aid - help given by a group or country to support development in another country or for disaster relief
Debt relief - when debt is cancelled or reduced
Fairtrade - an organisation dedicated to improving the income and lives of farmers in lower income countries by making trade fairer
Common misconception
Development is always driven by governments and big international organisations.
While governments and organisations play a big role, development often happens through smaller, community-led projects where local people take charge.
Teacher tip
The final practice activity can be developed so that pupils debate top-down aid from the perspective of different stakeholders.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is an example of a development indicator?
Q2.Which of these shows inequality between countries?
Q3.What is the Human Development Index (HDI) based on?
Q4.Some people have better life chances because of in development.
Q5.What is the main reason that life varies around the world?
Q6.Which of these countries is likely to have high development?
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Match the keywords to their definitions.
where money is spent in a country to improve infrastructure
help given by one country or group to another to support development
when debt is cancelled or reduced
where farmers are guaranteed more money and better working conditions
Q2.What is the main aim of development strategies?
Q3. projects can allow people to take the lead in development.
Q4.A student says “Only governments and big groups make development happen.” What’s a better understanding?
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