EQ3 keywords Flashcards
Define absolute poverty
When a persons income is too low for basic human needs to be met, potentially resulting in hunger and homelessness
What are the millennium development goals
Eight specific objectives for the global community created at the UN millennium summit in NY in 2000
Define relative poverty
When a persons income is too low to maintain the avg standard of living in a particular society.
Asset growth for very Rich people can lead to more people being in relative poverty
What are the four outer strands of the development cable
Social Cultural environmental political demographic
What is income per capita
The mean average income of a group of people in a country or smaller region
What is GDP?
The final value of the output of goods and services inside a nations borders
Define post- accession migration
The flow of econ. Migrants after a country has joined the Eu
define development
generally means the way in which a country seeks to progres economically and to improve the quality of life for it’s inhabitants.
diaspora
the dispersion or spread of a group of people from their original homeland
crude birth rate
the number of live births per 1000 people per yr.