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Edition 02: 18 April, 2010.

Edition 04 : 23 October, 2012.

 

                                                                                    

01. E-course : Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip. Int. Dev)

 

 

Quarter 1.

 

 

SECTION A : DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS.

 

 

Study value : 04 points out of 18.

Indicative study time: 112 hours out of 504.

 

Study points are awarded only after the consolidated exam for Section A : Development Problems has been passed.

 


 

First block : Poverty and quality of life.

 

Study value : 02 points out of 18.

Indicative study time: 57 hours out of 504.

 

Study points are awarded only after the consolidated exam for Section A : Development Problems has been passed.

 


 

First block : Poverty and quality of life.

 

First Block : Section 1. Analysis of the causes of poverty. [26.50 hours]

First Block :  Section 2. Services needed for a good quality of life.

First Block : Exam. [ 4 hours each attempt]

 


 

Block 1 of Section 1. Analysis of the causes of poverty. [26.50 hours]

 

Part 1 : Introduction to the causes of poverty.[06.50 hours]

 

01. Definition of poverty.

02. Some factors linked with poverty.

03. Debts and subsidies.

04. Financial leakage : food and water industries.

05. Financial leakage : energy.

06. Financial leakage : means of communication.

07. Financial leakage : health and education.

08. Financial leakage : theft of resources.

09. Financial leakage : corruption.

10. The industry of poverty.

 


 

Part 1 : Introduction to the causes of poverty.[06.50 hours]

 

 

08. Financial leakage : theft of resources. (At least 30 minutes)

 

Read George Monbiot’s article The Great Imposters on the commodification of natural resources, published in the Guardian, London,  07 August, 2012.

“The costing and sale of nature represents another transfer of power to corporations and the very rich…..It diminishes us, it diminishes nature. By turning the natural world into a subsidiary of the corporate economy, it reasserts the biblical doctrine of dominion. It slices the biosphere into component commodities: ”

“With more than half of the nation’s resources hijacked by a very few elites, political cronies, and psychopaths, the majority of the population remains poor. So, while the country [ Nigeria] happens to be the seventh largest crude oil exporter in the world, eighty percent of its citizens live on under one dollar a day!” ( D.S.Rogers (ed), Waiting to be Heard : Preliminary Results of  the 2012 Equity and Sustainability Field Hearings, Part 2, Initiative for Equality, Occasional Report # 1, Rapid City, June 2012, p. 131).

 

Look at the following slide :

 

08. Financial leakage : theft of resources.

 

1. Opinion.

 

What do you think about the opinions expressed on the slide ?

 

Finite natural resources.

 

2. Research.

 

Make a list of the finite natural resources in your chosen project area.

 

What are the estimated remaining reserves?

 

What is the current level of their exploitation ?

 

Who is exploiting them ?

 

What is the turnover for each resource ?

 

Where does the money go?

 

What benefits do the local populations get from these activities ?

 

Which disadvantages do the local populations suffer from these activities ?

 

Renewable natural resources.

 

3. Research.

 

Make a list of the renewable natural resources in your chosen project area.

 

What are the estimated remaining reserves?

 

What is the current level of their exploitation ?

 

Who is exploiting them ?

 

What is the turnover for each resource ?

 

Where does the money go?

 

What benefits do the local populations get from these activities ?

 

Which disadvantages do the local populations suffer from these activities ?

 

Is the exploitation sustainable ?

 

What, if any, are the positive ecological results of the activities ?

 

What, if any, are the negative ecological results of the activities ?

 



 First  block : Poverty and quality of life.


Index : Diploma in Integrated Development  (Dip.Int.Dev)

 List of key words.

 List of references.

  Course chart.


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