Pakistan

What’s that?

Flood? What flood?Pakistan floods: disaster is the worst in the UN's history

• http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/severe_flooding_in_pakistan.html

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10896849

Questions

• What are humans like?

• What is the nature of that society? Of the global society?

Impacts. That’s 17 MILLION people.

http://pakresponse.info/index.php?id=1

Economics

Pakistan was working to pay back an $11 billion loan from the IMF that was helping the nation cope with the global economic crisis.  In return for the loan, Pakistan had promised to tighten economic policies and cut expenses.

The director of the IMF's Middle East and Central Asia Department, Masood Ahmed, says flood damage is hurting Pakistan's tax revenue, just as relief efforts are drastically raising expenses and the nation faces "massive" reconstruction costs.

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/IMF-Discusses-Pakistans-Flood-Catastrophe-Economy-101390874.html

More questions

• How would you govern this disaster?

• Would you look inwards? Outwards? (terms we learned last year?)

Even More Questions

• Why is this such a disaster?

• What is the government like?

• What does it show about government or the need for it?

• Why is it not a focus in HK media? What does this show about HK’s government

Ideology

• A set of beliefs and ideals relating to politics and society

• What do you think HK’s ideology is? Pakistan?

• What are some factors that are influenced by ideology?

Homework

• Complete one side of handout

• Ideology according to you