The document outlines 12 strategies for reducing the development gap in poor countries, ranked from highest to lowest impact on national development and number of people affected. Strategies with the highest impact include bilateral aid, trade justice, and multi-lateral aid, while strategies with lower impact include conservation swaps, microloans, and doing nothing.

1. Strategies for reducing
the development gap
Rearrange the 12 strategies to reflect their likely
impact on the development of a poor country and
the number of people they could affect.
Assume that “Do nothing” has no impact on the
entire population

2. High
Strategies for reducing
the development gap
Bi-lateral aid NGO aid Remittances
Impact on national development
Multi-lateral
Trading blocs Trade justice
aid
Fair trade Micro loans Debt relief
Conservation
Free trade Loans
swaps
Do nothing
Low
Impact on people
Minority of Majority of
population population