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Sweatshop

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A factory or workshop, especially in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions.

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Co-operative

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A business that is owned and run by and for members, using democratic processes to give all members a say.

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Subsistence farming

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The practice of growing crops and raising livestock sufficient only for one’s own use, without any surplus for trade.

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Cash crops

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Agricultural crops that are planted for the purpose of selling on the market or for export to make profit.

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Import

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Bring (goods or services) into a country from abroad for sale.

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Export

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Send (goods or services) to another country for sale.

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Equity

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Recognizing that we do not all start from the same place and must acknowledge and make adjustments to imbalances.

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Fairness

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Impartial and just treatment or behaviour without favouritism or discrimination.

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Marketing

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The activity or business of promoting and selling products or services, including market research and advertising.

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Developing country

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A country with a relatively low standard of living, undeveloped industrial base, and moderate to low Human Development Index (HDI).

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Developed country

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A sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy, and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.

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Exploitation

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The action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work

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Nomad

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a member of a people that travels from place to place and has no permanent home.

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Tariff

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A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.

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Quotas

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A fixed share of something that a person or group is entitled to receive or is bound to contribute.

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Fast fashion

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Producing trendy and cheap clothing in large quantities at rapid speed.

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Perspective

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A particular attitude towards or way of regarding something; a point of view.

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Marginalize

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Treat (a person, group, or concept) as insignificant or peripheral.

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Nazis

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A far right German Workers’ Party

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Theresienstadt

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A transit camp for Czech Jews being transported.

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Propaganda

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Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.

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Resistance

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The refusal to accept or comply with something.

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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UDHR

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Living conditions

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The circumstances or factors affecting the way in which people live, particularly with regard to their well-being

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Discrimination

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The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, age, sex, or disability.

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Prejudice

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Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

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Dehumanization

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The process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities.

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Anti-Semitism

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Hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people.

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Human rights

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Rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status.

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Responsibilities

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The opportunity or ability to act independently and take decisions without authorization.

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Freedom

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The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants.

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Rights

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A moral or legal entitlement to have or do something.

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Oppression

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Prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or exercise of authority.

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Voting Rights Act

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A landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.

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Genocide

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The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

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Empathy

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The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

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Atrocities

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An extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury.

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Poverty

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The state of being extremely poor.

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Equality

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The state of being equal, especially in status, rights, or opportunities.

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Ideology

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A system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.

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Beliefs

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Something that is accepted, considered to be true, or held as an opinion

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Colonisation

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The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.

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Reconciliation

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The action of making one view or belief compatible with another.

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Consumerism

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The protection or promotion of the interests of consumers.

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Dignity

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The state or quality of being worthy of honour or respect.

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Alienate

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Make (someone) feel isolated or estranged.

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Interrogation

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Ask questions of (someone) closely, aggressively, or formally.

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Convention

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A standard technique or rule to be followed.

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Continent

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Any of the world’s 7 main continuous expanses of land

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Ocean

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A very large expanse of sea, in particular each of the main areas into which the sea is divided geographically.

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0° Longitude

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Prime/Greenwich meridian

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Tropics

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The area between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn.

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Tropic of Cancer

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Latitude line 23.5° N

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Tropic of Capricorn

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Latitude line 23.5°S

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Physical map

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A representation of natural features of the earth such as mountains, plateaus, plains, rivers, oceans, etc.

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Political map

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A type of map that represents political divisions, or human-created boundaries, of the world, continents and major geographic regions.

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Key

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An explanatory list of symbols/colours used in a map/graph

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Equator

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0° Latititude

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International Date line

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The line extending between the South and North Poles that is the boundary between one calendar day and the next.

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Co-ordinates

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A way of expressing where on the Earth you are. They are made up of an X value, or longitude, and a Y value, or latitude.

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Grid references

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A location on a map, which is found using the northing and easting numbered lines

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Islands

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A piece of land surrounded by water.

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Adolf Hitler

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The leader of the Nazi party

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Auschwitz

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Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camp and extermination camp. Located near the town of Oswiecim in southern Poland.

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Concentration camp

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An internment centre for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of state security, exploitation, or punishment, usually by executive decree or military order.

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Eugenics

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The study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable.

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Euthanasia

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The painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma.

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Extermination camp

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Nazi German concentration camp that specialized in the mass annihilation (Vernichtung) of unwanted persons in the Third Reich and conquered territories.

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Final Solution

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The Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, the policy resulted in the murder of 6 million Jewish people in concentration camps between 1941 and 1945.

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Ghetto

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A legally enforced residential area for Jews.

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Holocaust

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The genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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Liberation

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The action of setting someone free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression; release.

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Persecution

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Hostility and ill-treatment, especially on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation or political beliefs.

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Police state

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A totalitarian state controlled by a political police force that secretly supervises the citizens’ activities.

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Pogrom

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An organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Racism

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Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.

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Refugee

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Someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war or violence.

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Stereotypes

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A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

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Supercontinent

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A landmass made up of most or all of Earth’s land.

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Tectonic plates

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A scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth’s subterranean movements.

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Sustainability

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Avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance

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Sustainable development goals

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SDG’s

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Deforestation

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The removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.

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Population

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All the inhabitants of a particular place.

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Climate Change

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Long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.

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Resources

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A stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively.

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Kaitiakitanga

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Guardianship or management

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Fair Trade

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Trade between companies in developed countries and producers in developing countries in which fair prices are paid to the producers.

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Interdependent

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Dependent on each other

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Trade

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The action of buying and selling goods and services

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Globalisation

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The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

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Free trade

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International trade left to its natural course without tariffs, quotas, or other restrictions.

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Primary sector

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An industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining.

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Secondary sector

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An industry that manufactures goods rather than producing raw materials, or these industries considered as a group.

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Tertiary sector

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An industry that consists of the provision of services instead of end products. Services (also known as “intangible goods”) include attention, advice, access, experience and affective labour.

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