{"id":21156,"date":"2024-05-27T10:04:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T04:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21156"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:40:12","slug":"sids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sids\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Island Developing States"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Small Island Developing States:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These are a distinct group of <strong>39 States and 18 Associate Members<\/strong> of United Nations regional commissions that face unique social, economic and environmental vulnerabilities.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>three geographical regions<\/strong> in which SIDS are located are: <strong>the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and South China Sea (AIS).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>SIDS were recognized as a special case both for their environment and development at the 1992 <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/the-united-nations-un\/\" target=\"_blank\">United Nations<\/a> Conference on Environment and Development <strong>held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>For SIDS, the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)\u2014the ocean under their control\u2014is, on average, 28 times the country\u2019s land mass.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Issues:<\/strong> They are highly vulnerable developing countries as they <strong>suffer from low economic diversification,<\/strong> often characterised by high dependence on tourism and remittances, volatility due to fluctuations in private income flows and the prices of raw materials, and debt stress situations.<\/li>\n<li>For many SIDS, the majority of the natural resources they have access to come from the ocean.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is an Exclusive economic zone (EEZ)?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an area of the ocean extending up to 200 nautical miles (370 km) immediately offshore from a country&#8217;s land coast in which that country retains exclusive rights to the exploration and exploitation of natural resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegef.org\/events\/gef-fourth-international-conference-small-island-developing-states-sids-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The GEF at the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS-4)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Island Developing States are a distinct group of 39 States and 18 Associate Members of United Nations regional commissions that face unique social, economic and environmental vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}