Globalisation EQ3

Question 1

When a person’s income is too low for basic human needs to be met

Answer 1

Absolute poverty

Question 2

The amount of carbon dioxide produced by an individual or activity

Answer 2

Carbon footprint

Question 3

Where natural resource stocks are maintained or increased by requiring manufacturers or retailers to do more to recycle, reuse or repair products

Answer 3

Circular economy

Question 4

A society in which the buying and selling of goods and services is the most important social and economic activity

Answer 4

Consumer society

Question 5

The number of live births per 1000 people per year

Answer 5

Crude birth rate

Question 6

The ways in which a country seeks to progress economically and to improve the quality of life for its inhabitants

Answer 6

Development

Question 8

The dispersion or spread of a group of people from their original homeland

Answer 8

Diaspora

Question 9

A crude measurement of the area of land or water required to provide a person (or society) with the energy, food and resources needed to live, and absorb waste

Answer 9

Ecological footprint

Question 10

A financial exchange where the consumer has considered the social and environmental costs of production for food, goods or services purchased

Answer 10

Ethical consumerism/purchase

Question 11

The distance food travels from the farm to the consumer

Answer 11

Food miles

Question 12

A composite index that measures gender inequalities related to certain aspects of social and economic development

Answer 12

Gender Inequality Index (GII)

Question 13

A measure of income distribution in a place, which can show inequalities

Answer 13

Gini coefficient/index

Question 14

A composite measure that ranks countries according to economic and social criteria

Answer 14

Human Development Index (HDI)

Question 15

Unofficial forms of employment

Answer 15

Informal sector

Question 16

Eight specific objectives created at the UN Millennium Summit in New York in 2000

Answer 16

Millennium Development Goals

Question 17

A political movement focused on national independence or the abandonment of policies that are viewed by some as a threat to national sovereignty/national culture

Answer 17

Nationalism

Question 18

A material source of wealth, such as timber, fresh water, or a mineral deposit, that occurs in its natural state and has economic value

Answer 18

Natural resources

Question 19

The overall balance between immigration and emigration

Answer 19

Net migration

Question 20

The flow of economic migrants after a country has joined the EU

Answer 20

Post-accession migration

Question 21

People who moved to European countries from former colonies during the 1950s-1970s.

Answer 21

Post-colonial migrants

Question 22

This relates average earnings to local prices and what they will buy; it is the spending power within a country, and reflects the local cost of living

Answer 22

Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)

Question 23

When a person’s income is too low to maintain the average standard of living in a particular society

Answer 23

Relative poverty

Question 24

Where state governments take measures ensuring that domestic industries and consumers have priority access to national resources found within their borders

Answer 24

Resource nationalism

Question 25

Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

Answer 25

Sustainability

Question 26

A settlement where individuals and businesses have adopted ‘bottom up’ initiatives with the aim of making their community more sustainable and less reliant on global trade

Answer 26

Transition town

Question 27

A measure of the amount of water used in the production and transport to market of food and commodities (also known as the amount of ‘virtual water’ embedded in a product)

Answer 27

Water footprint