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1
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What is development?

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Development is the improvement in living standards through better use of resources

2
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What is economic development?

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Increase in wealth of a country

3
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What is environmental development?

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Improvement in the use and conservation of the natural world

4
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What is social development?

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Improvement to the quality of life for people living in the country

5
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What are the top five Sustainable Development Goals

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No poverty, no hunger, good health, quality education, gender equality

6
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What is sustainable development?

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Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

7
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What is aid?

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Transfer of resources from one country to another

8
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What is bilateral aid?

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Aid given from one country to another

9
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What is charitable aid?

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Aid given by Non-government organisations like oxfam usually on a small scale

10
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What is tied aid?

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Aid that is given with ‘strings attached’. Meaning that the receiving country has to give something back

11
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What is multilateral aid?

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Aid given by big organisations like the World Bank and IMF and UN. This is funded by many countries

12
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Where is the DRC?

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The DRC is located in central Africa

13
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What natural resources are in the DRC

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Deposits of copper, gold,diamonds,cobalt,uranium,coltan and oil

14
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When did the DRC become independent?

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1965

15
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How many people have died in the ‘Great War of Africa’

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5 million people

16
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What has been the DRCs average economic growth rate since 2010

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7%

17
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What percentage of the DRCs GDP does mining take up

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24%