First World Engineers Helping To Solve Third World Problems
First World Engineers Helping To Solve Third World Problems
First World Engineers Helping To Solve Third World Problems
product or need, and design appropriate technical solutions. This model can be
by communities with strong political capital and tax bases leveraged to provide
services; and business and consumer markets to purchase products and services.
Such necessary social supports are often invisible to the engineer, whose education
does not typically include crash courses in economics or policy. As a result, engineers
are poorly equipped to address or even recognize the existence of structural gaps to
Today, over half the world’s population still lives on less than $5.50 a day (The World
Health Metrics and Evaluation, 2019). While the fraction of the world’s population
living in absolute poverty has decreased over the past 50 years, the absolute number
of people in poverty – about 1 billion – has not changed over the last 30 years.
The terms “global engineer” (Amadei, 2014), “development engineering” (Nilsson,
Madon and Sastry, 2014), “humanitarian engineering” (Mitcham and Munoz, 2010),
and “peace engineering” (Amadei, 2019) have recently entered the lexicon of
engineers (Mintz et al., 2014), and that rigor equal to any other engineering
The cause of this situation varies throughout the different countries. In some places,
it’s because of the concentration of wealth in some population. In other places, the
government has no resources to fulfil the need of it’s citizens. Due to this, the
citizens have to live in inhospitable conditions and are forced to battle diseases,
hunger etc. On their own. In such places, the future generations have no choice but
Basically, we can classify third world problems as when their smallest problem is a
Resources;
and inadequate supplies of natural resources will find income growth more difficult
to achieve than one that is richly endowed with such resources. How these resources
are managed also matters. When farmland is divided into many small parcels, it may
than when the land is available in huge tracts for large-scale farming. Fragmented
land holdings may result from a dowry or inheritance system or may be politically
imposed.
Human Capital;
Numbers of people matter, and so does their training and experience. A well-
efficient production, is often missing in poor countries. The cause may be that
managerial positions are awarded on the basis of family status or political patronage
rather than merit, it may be the prevalence of economic or cultural attitudes that do
Infrastructure;
network, are necessary for efficient commerce. Roads, bridges, railways, and
harbours are needed to transport people, materials, and finished goods. Phone and
postal services, water supply, and sanitation are essential to economic development.
Foreign Debt;
The 1970s and early 1980s witnessed explosive growth in the external debt of many
developing nations. Since the mid-1980s, most of these countries have experienced
rescheduling”—putting off until the future payments that cannot be made today—
has been common, and many observers feel that major defaults are inevitable unless
developing countries have population growth rates in excess of their GDP growth
rates and therefore have negative growth rates of per capita GDP. Many developing
countries have rates of population growth that are nearly as large as their rates of
GDP growth.
As a result, their standards of living are barely higher than they were 100 years ago.
They have made appreciable gains in aggregate income, but most of the gains have
Climate Change;
exacerbating and accelerating poverty in some regions of the world. The World
failure) will result in over 250,000 additional deaths each year between 2030 and
pushed back into poverty by 2030 because of climate change(Haines and Ebi, 2019).
Most of these deaths and hardships will be occur in developing countries, which are
among the populations least responsible for climate change and least equipped to
Also;
volunteer or low-salaried engineering labor, which has the effect of reducing the
professional depth of the contributions of engineers to global development.
Meanwhile, larger scale infrastructure contracts in the United States for work in low-
salaries, but may not be mandated or capable of addressing longer term systemic
development challenges.
Conclusion;
According to the World Bank, approximately 1.2 billion of the world’s people subsist
on less than one dollar (U.S.) per day. Despite the fact that one U.S. dollar buys much
more in Addis Ababa than it does in New York, Toronto, or Paris, there is still a
significant fraction of the world’s population that is—by any reasonable standard—
very poor.
Despite increasing emphasis on the monitoring and evaluation phase, however, the
reality of finite and time-bound funding often means that donors do not receive
And, with these developments, criteria and realisation engineers can and will be able
https://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/1310/1341624/Chapter36W.pdf
https://www.colorado.edu/center/mortenson/the_global_engineers
Southern Africa from 2000 to 2010 using validated Landsat and MODIS
10.1016/j.jag.2017.04.007.
Change’, p. 73.