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It is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts of developing countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry, and fisheries practices; ensuring good nutrition and food security for all.

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Food and Agriculture Organization

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It is the total number of live births per 1,000 in a population in a year or period.

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Birth rate

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He was the founding director of Global Studies and the Globalization and Social Change Initiative that describes media as a means of conveying something such as a channel of communication.

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Jack Lule

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Several underwater reserves and bodies of water are subject to undergoing massive pollution brought about by irresponsible chemical waste disposals of factories and other manufacturing agencies.

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Global Water Crisis

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It is simply the number of infant deaths in a single year out of every 1,000 live births of a particular year.

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Infant mortality

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It is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health.

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World Health Organization

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21st century education is not just about technology but also include

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A.Cultural awareness
B.Productivity
C.Problem solving

D.All of the given options

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The following are the added criteria of Economic Intelligence Unit to measure the economic competitiveness of a city EXCEPT.

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Purchasing power of citizens

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Is there a single model for global citizenship education?

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Yes, all countries should follow tha model.

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Obtaining a quality education is the foundation in improving people’s lives and sustainable development. Which goals of sustainable development is being describe?

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Goal 4

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Is global citizenship related to the Sustainable Development Goals?

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Yes, SDG 4 on Quality Education includes it within its targets.

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Does global citizenship education belong exclusively to tertiary education?

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No, it belongs exclusively to the secondary level of education.

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Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being for all at all ages is essential to sustainable development. Which goals of sustainable development is being describe?

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Goal 3

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It refers to people moving from one area to another within one country.

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Internal Migration

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What can be understood as global citizenship education?

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It is a way to understand the world and to connect, relate and share with other cultures and peoples.

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If a person moves from Philippines to Canada, this is considered what type of migration?

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International

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The following statement are feminist perspective to the issue of reproductive rights EXCEPT.

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Any form of population control do not empower women.

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Mankind has mastered the art of exploiting the land for maximum profit without talking a step back and asking themselves what the true cost for all these advancements is.

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Greedy Land Deals

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Which of the following is not an example of migration?

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College students repeatedly moving between home and school.

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They are the people with special skills and qualification who seek employment through international labor markets for scarce skills.

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Highly skilled and business migrants

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It represents the fifth largest stock market in the world.

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Tokyo Stock Exchange

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Global citizenship education implies a set of values and attitudes to.

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Be interconnected with people and issues of the world.

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Which of the following statement of environmental problems is TRUE?

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A.Changes in global pattern.
B.Overpopulation.
C.Depletion of the ozone layer.

OD.All of the given options.

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Which of the is the most common cause of migration?

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War

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People who enter a country, usually in search of employment, without the necessary documents and permits.

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Irregular migrants

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Which of the following statement of religion is NOT true?

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Religion is largely focus on the realms of markets.

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Which of the following statement of a is NOT true?

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A globalist is concerned with spreading holy ideas globally.

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Economic growth must be inclusive to provide sustainable jobs and promote equality. Which goals of sustainable development is being describe?

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Goal 1

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They are popularly known as overseas contract workers who migrate for a limited period in order to work and send remittances to their families left at home.

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Temporary labor migrants

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Which of the following describes global citizenship?

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Global citizenship is the idea that everyone is part of a worldwide community.

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An extreme change in temperature results to massive fish kills affecting the harvest of fisher folks.

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Climate Change

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A person residing outside his or her country of nationality, who is unable or
unwilling to return because of a well founded fear or persecution on account of race, religion, nationality,
membership in a particular social

group, or political opinion.

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Refugees

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Agrarian lots allocated for food production are replaced with concrete structures rendering farmers powerless to use the land for its original purpose.

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Greedy Land Deals

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Why is global citizens education relevant today?

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A.Because global citizens are needed considering the contemporary challenges.

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The condition of having a population so dense as to cause environmental deterioration, an impaired quality of life, or a population crash.

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Overpopulation

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It is created for high-yielding varieties of rice and other cereals along with the development of new methods of cultivation.

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Green Revolution

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A concept based on social justice principles and practices that seeks to build global interconnectedness and shared economic, environmental, and social responsibility is referred to as?

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Global citizenship

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Which of the following thoughts does NOT embody global citizenship?

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It is a way to know more about international relations.

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Typhoons and similar catastrophes flood rice fields washing away most of the crops and rendering them inedible for the human populace.

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Climate Change

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Which of the statement of global city is CORRECT.

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The city that is strong in certain areas.

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People who move across borders in search of protection.

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Asylum-seekers

42
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It is the study of both qualitative and quantitative aspects of human population.

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Demography

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It refers to the increasing number of people that live in urban areas and predominantly results in the physical growth of urban areas it may be horizontal or vertical.

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Urbanization

44
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Clean and accessible water for all is an essential part of the world we want to live in. Which goals of sustainable development is being describe?

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Goal 6

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According to Jerome S. Bruner, “Education must be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of skills to improve them.”, what does it mean?

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Establish linkages and connect witl people in distant places.

46
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Fertile lands become exhausted because of an unending cycle of production.

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Land Degradation

47
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The food and agriculture sector offers key solutions for development, and is hunger and poverty eradication. Which goals of sustainable development is being describe?

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Goal 2

48
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It is an association of different Protestant congregations that has criticized economic globalization because of its negative effects.

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World Churches Organization

49
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It is the number of people per thousand who die in a particular area during particular period of time.

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Death rate

50
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It refers to a prediction of the number of years for which a person will live. It is determined based on the statistical average, considering many factors, including year and place of birth, race, education level, income, and medical history.

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Life expectancy

51
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It stabilized American farmers following the dust-bowl experience, by reorganizing agriculture as “petro farming”.

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Second food regime

52
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The succeeding is well-thought-out as a result of global warming except:

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Billion of tons of carbon dioxide

53
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It converts agriculture for short-sighted alternative energy/emissions targets at a time.

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Agrofuel Commercialization

54
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This is the follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Protocol.

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Paris Accord

55
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Food regime theory is a broadly Marxist approach to theorizing food systems. It was developed in the late 1970s

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False

56
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According to demographers, what is the percentage of migrants for economic reason?

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30%

57
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A phenomenon when food prices rise more rapidly than the prices of other goods and services, due to the growing demand for crops as both food and for biofuels.

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Agflation

58
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It is the most incisive critique of liberal capitalism from within the western universalist tradition of thought, of course, been provided in particular by

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Marxism

59
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Refers to the humans exacerbate other natural environmental problems.

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Man-made pollution

60
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Which of the list have the most incident of migration?

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United States of America

61
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In 1997, Kyoto protocol was promulgated to reduce greenhouses gases also signed by how many countries?

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192 countries

62
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The year that the world cooled off in and around

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1998

63
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United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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December 1945

64
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H.G. Wells had foreseen the possibility of atomic bomb in his 1913 novel

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The World Set Free

65
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Are those who move permanently to another country?

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Immigrants

66
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Plants are used to obtain biodiesel to be used in place of diesel or petrol.

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Biofuel

67
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Which of the following statement is true about refugees?

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refugees are those unable or unwilling to return because of a well founded of persecution

68
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In December of 2015, Paris Accord was negotiated by how many countries?

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195 countries

69
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A country that setting up a National Price Council to monitor food costs and is planning stockpiles of major foods.

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Malaysia

70
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In order to formulate contemporary models of liberal citizenship, and the links between liberalism and cosmopolitanism,
must be in order.

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Cosmopolitan values

71
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These two were combine to accelerate food circulation globally and restructure food production and retailing.

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Liberalization and privatization

72
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Fifty-two percent of Filipinos who leave for work in the developed world have tertiary education, this statement refers to

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Brain drain

73
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It certainly addresses public forms of food provisioning, but not wage setting.

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Food Supply

74
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It refers to people cross borders of one country to another.

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Internal migration

75
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In what rank does Philippines have incident of migration

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4th

76
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In 2014, which of the following country got the highest recorded remittances?

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Philippines

77
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It is a complex that requires the integration of various social scientific data.

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Social responsiveness

78
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Responsible for recurring heat waves and long droughts in certain places.

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Greenhouse effect

79
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In Sustainable Government, Extractive economies is also known as

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Terminal economies

80
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It refers to people moving from one area to another within one country.

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Internal migration

81
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A persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight and an example of this is the melting of the polar ice caps.

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Glacier

82
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Who pointed out the responsibility of the United Nations to discuss alternative forms of economic development?

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George Soros

83
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According to the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, what is the third largest criminal activity worldwide?

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Human trafficking

84
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The most distinguished recent theorist of republicanism.

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Michael Walzer

85
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The rise in food prices is partly because of the following excluding:

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Growth of middle class in India

86
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It is the Super typhoon that hits Asia in 2013 that doubled and even tripled the upshot in some area of the Southeast Asian basin.

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Typhoon Haiyan

87
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The nation state can also demand the citizens put aside their family commitments for the national good, most dramatically in

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Humanitarian

88
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It is defined as the movement of people over some distance and from one “usual place of residence” to another.

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Migration

89
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The following statement is correct; except?

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Donald Trump has been revising the existing pro-immigration

90
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Popular perceptions of the underlying cause of food inflation lay considerable blame on the

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Biofuels Revolution

91
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UNESCO stands for. *

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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

92
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The Asian Development Bank observes that in countries like the Philippines, remittances do not have a significant influence on other key items of consumption or investment on education and health care.

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True

93
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According to the International Food Policy Research Institute, it is the region most suffering in terms of Food Security.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

94
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The following are considered as emission of aerosols excluding:

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Indoor-cooking

95
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Andrew Linklater, whose writings on international relations embrace both Australian and British perspectives, combines the following considerations excluding:

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Philosophical considerations

96
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It is the most influential theorists of deliberative democracy, which is inherently applicable to units smaller and larger than nation states.

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Miller

97
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In 1970’s, it is the he country that considered to be the “worst polluter in the history of the world”.

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China

98
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A Marx’s term for the separation of social production from its natural biological base, reducing nutrient recycling in and through soil and water, and extends to reconstituting energy sources as commodified inputs.

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Food Regime

99
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The primary goal of social democrats is

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To have social democratic global citizenship.

100
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The most dramatic assertion of the reality of world citizenship was staged by

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John Marx

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