GEOG 3050 Study Guide - Final Guide: Arab Spring, Health Equity, International Business
10 Apr 2013
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Financing & role of public institutions: shift aid from donor to country led projects strengthens service pathways translating inputs (finance) into outcomes anchored in core govt systems. Advances bypass poor & rural benefit the better off, for poorest 40% hardly increased millennium devt goals. Zawahri: incentive for govts to overstate improvements & mask inequality. Joshi: dignity as basic sanitation need, informal settlements need tenure to invest in sanitation, externally imposed programs not sufficient, inequalities b/c of cost/tech/lack of demand. Chaplin: poor need to improve political capacity to advocate for themselves. Muller: free water in s. africa, put cap on, free so ppl waste more: end results financial stability of water supply instits, water conservation promotion, more equal access. Issues: health, culture, gender (women collect), diversion (dams), pollution, threat of privatization. Energy ex. solar water heaters in urban/peri egypt. Pucher: traffic accidents, need to improve infra/extend public transport and funding/governance.
