Chapter 7 Flashcards
With respect to poverty in the global south
About one billion people live in abject poverty
In 2000, the UN adopted the Millennium Development Goals. What does the UN hope to achieve with this project?
The project sets targets for basic needs measured to be achieved by 2015 and measured against 1990 data.
UNESCO defines literacy as the ability to read and write…
A simple sentence.
Recurrent epidemics and widespread diarrhea, which kill millions of children each year, results from
lack of access to sanitation
Agricultural goods produced specifically for export to world markets are called
Cash crop
Women taking part in the integrated and holistic approach urban development projects have helped to subsidize health and sanitation services in slums by
Organizing income-producing businesses and using these profits to enhance these services.
International Law and norm
Obligate states to accept refugees who arrived at their borders
A remittance is
Money sent home by migrants to relatives in their country of origin. They are an important source of income in poor countries.
World system theory is based on what theoretical framework
Marxism
With respect to the concept of the world system,
The semi periphery acts as a buffer between the core and the periphery
How do semiperiphery regions compare with periphery regions
The semi periphery region grow quickly while the periphery regions grow slowly.
The international system as we know it developed in
Europe
European states colonized what part of the world
Most of the world’s territory
Nonviolent resistance to British rule was the means to independence for which British colonies?
India due to Gandhi’s movements
What is neo colonialism
The continuation of colonial exploitation without formal political control
The central aspect of economic development is
Capital accumulation
Who was the Chinese leader responsible for instituting the economic reforms that have taken place there since the mid 1970s?
Deng Xiaoping
What two regions of the world has China focus on for mineral and energy imports?
Africa and Latin America
Which Asian country has committed itself to economic reforms such as selling state-owned industries but was thrown into a severe economic crisis by the collapse of the Soviet Union?
India
How does import substitution compare to export led growth
Import substitution is the development of local industries to produce items that a country has been importing. While export-led growth is a strategy that seeks to develop industries that can compete in specific niches in the world
_____ is a fairly labor-intensive industry that does not require much capital to get started, thereby reducing the capital necessary for manufacturing.
Textile
What is micro credit
Uses small loans to poor people, especially women, to support economic self-sufficiency
When a company is owned partly by a foreign MNC and partly by a local firm or the host government itself, this is known as
A joint venture
What country has by far been the most successful in utilizing foreign direct investment?
China
When a country loses skilled workers to richer countries this is called a
Brain drain
Of the 30 states of the industrialized West that make up the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the OECD, which one gives the lowest percentage of GDP in foreign aid?
The United States
The _______ provides U.S. volunteers for technical development assistance in states in the global south
The Peace Corp
The model of development assistance that relies on local communities to determine the needs of their own people and to carry out to the element project is the _______ model
Oxfam
The model of development assistance by which short term relief (food, water, shelter), is provided to victims of natural disasters or war is the ________ model
Disaster relief
