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Final Review: Living Standards Flashcards

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Human Development Index

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Rank members according to:

  • Adult literacy
  • Life expectancy
  • Per capita GDP
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Gross domestic product GDP

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Total value of all goods and services produced in a country in one year DIVIDED by population

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Per capita

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per person

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Adult literacy

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people who can read

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Infrastructure

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Things such as transportation & communication links, electric-power distribution sys, schools hospitals

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Poverty cycle

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poor families get trapped in poverty

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Poverty and armed conflict

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Conflict

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World Bank & International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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As a result of deft; set up to provide LOANS to help countries to improve LIVING STANDARD.
-encouraged countries to invest in projects (boost economic growth >FAILED) UN pay debts

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Multinational company

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Large companies that operate in more than 1 country (a lot of political power)

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Highly indebted poor country (HPIC)

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Countries @ bottom of UN development Index; measures social progress among countries

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Bilateral aid

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Assistance from other government to another

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Multilateral aid

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Assistance funded buy # of governments (involves large scale projects)

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Tied aid

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Aids give conditions attached

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UNICEF

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UN children’s fund:

-Fight iodine disorder

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Amnesty International

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3mil + 150 countries working together to protect and promote human rights

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Pandemic (HIV/AIDS)

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Disease outbreak (occurs over wide geographic area

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Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

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Give foreign aids from 1 government to another

-Goal: Develop countries; tool 2 meet own needs

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Distribution of wealth

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Statistical data that describes how wealth has evolved around the world

Socials 11: Final Review (6 decks)

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