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According to G. William Domhoff’s model of the political power structure, which coalition would colleges and universities likely belong to?

A. Corporate-Conservative coalition
B. Liberal-Labor coalition
C. Environmental-Elite coalition
D. Policy formation coalition

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B. Liberal-Labor coalition

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What was the most important type of authority that Nelson Mandela possessed?

A. Traditional
B. Rational-legal
C. Charismatic
D. Democratic

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C. Charismatic

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Which recent event was reminiscent of Philip Zimbardo’s mock prison experiment conducted in 1971?

A. The invasion of Kuwaiti jails
B. The Abu Ghraib prison scandal
C. The terrorist attacks of 9/11
D. None of the answers are true

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B. The Abu Ghraib prison scandal

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As described by C. Wright Mills, the power elite is?

A. A small group of military, industrial, and government leaders who control the fate of the United States
B. All holders of statewide and national office in the United States
C. The “Old Money” families who control the American economy
D. All of the answers are correct

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D. All the answers are correct

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The fight against a hazardous waste landfall in Warren County, North Carolina is an example of the concept of ______ at work.

A. SNAFU
B. The EPA
C. NIMBY
D. Catch-22

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C. NIMBY

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The industrialized nations of North America and Europe account for 12 percent of the world’s population and ____ percent of the worldwide consumption.

A. 20
B. 40
C. 60
D. 80

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C. 60

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Which of the following was the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases in 2000?

A. The United States
B. The European Union
C. China
D. Russia

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A. The United States

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Which of the following is greater in developing nations than in industrialized nations

A. Rural population
B. Child mortality
C. Total population size
D. All of the answers are correct

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D. All of the answers are correct

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_____ resulted in explosive economic growth but the ensuing rise in living standards was a evenly distributed across the world.

A. The Industrial Revolution
B. Colonization
C. World War I
D. World War II

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A. The Industrial Revolution

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Weber Defined force as?

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answer: The actual use of threats

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A social institution dedicated to the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services

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Economy

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The systematic, widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity, such as factories and plants

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Deindustrialization

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Reductions in a company’s workforce as part of deindustrialization

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Downsizing

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The transfer of work to foreign contractors

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Offshoring

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The ability to exercise one’s will over others even if they resist

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Power

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The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one’s will on others

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Force

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Power that is recognized as legitimate by the people over who it is exercised

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Authority

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Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice

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Traditional Authority

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Power made legitimate by a leader’s exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers

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Charismatic Authority

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Authority based on formally agreed-upon and accepted rules, principles, and procedures of conduct that are established in order to accomplish goal in the most efficient manner possible

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Rational-legal Authority

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An economic system based on private property, in which profit-seeking individuals, companies, and corporations compete in the marketplace.

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Capitalism

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The principle that people should be able to compete freely, without government intervention, in the capitalist marketplace

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Laissez-Faire

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Control of a market by a single business firm

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Monopoly

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An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned

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Socialism

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An economic system that combines elements of both capitalism and socialism

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Mixed economy

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Transfers of money, goods, or services that are not reported to the government

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Informal economy

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The competition between individuals or groups over the allocation of valued resources

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Politics

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The social institutional that is founded on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving society’s goals.

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Political system

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A form of government headed by a single member of a royal family, usually a king, queen, or some other hereditary ruler

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Monarchy

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30
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A form of government in which a few individuals rule

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Oligarchy

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A government in which one person has nearly total power to make and enforce laws

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Dictatorship

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Virtually complete government control and surveillance over all aspects of society’s social and political life

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Totalitarianism

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33
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In a literal sense, government by the people

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Democracy

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A system of government in which citizens elect political leaders to make decisions on behalf of the people

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Representative Democracy

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A view of society as being ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests

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Elite model

36
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A small group of military, industrial, and government leaders who control the fate of the United States

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Power Elite

37
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A view of society in which many competing groups withing the community have access to government, so that no single group is dominant

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Pluralist model

38
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Conflict between organizations that possess trained combat forces equipped with deadly weapons

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War

39
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The use of threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims

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Terrorism

40
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The absence of war or, more broadly, a proactive effort to develop cooperative relations among nations

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Peace

41
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Adam Smith’s 4 factors to capitalism

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  • pursuit of profit
  • Competition in the market
  • Law of supply and demand
  • Laissez Faire (let people do as they please, gov. approach)
42
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Karl Marx’s 5 factors to Socialism

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  • humans must produce
  • Production makes us uniquely human
  • We pour ourselves into our products
  • Economy determines society
  • Scarcity and distribution are obstacles to the good of society
43
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T. H. Marshall’s 3 categories of citizenship rights

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  • civil rights - individual freedoms, etc.
  • Political rights - voting, etc.
  • Social rights - Welfare, security, etc.
44
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The far-reaching process by which nations pass from traditional forms of social organization toward those characteristic of post-industrial revolution societies

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Modernization

45
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The maintenance of political, social, economic, and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period.

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Colonialism

46
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Continuing dependence over a people by a foreign power for an extended period.

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Neocolonialism

47
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The maintenance of political, social, economic, and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period

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Colonialism

48
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A view of the global economic system as one divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited

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World Systems Analysis

49
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An approach contending that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain

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Dependency Theory

50
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A commercial organization that is headquartered in one country but does business throughout the world

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Multinational Corporation

51
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The total value of a nation’s goods and services

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Gross national income

52
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The area of common culture along the border between Mexico and the United States

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Borderlands

53
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The monies that immigrants return to their families of origin. Also called remasas.

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Remittances

54
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Universal moral rights possessed by all people because they are human

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Human Rights

55
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The statistical study of population dynamics

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Demography

56
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The number of children born in a given period of time

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Fertility

57
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The number of live births per 1,000 people in the population in a given year

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Crude Birth Rate

58
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The average number of children a woman would have during her lifetime given current birth rates and assuming she survives through her child bearing years

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Total Fertility Rate

59
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The minimum number of children a woman would need to average in her lifetime to reproduce the population in the next generation

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Replacement Fertility Rate

60
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The number of deaths per 1,000 people in a population in a given year

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Crude Death Rate

61
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The number of deaths in infants less than one year old per 1,00 live births per year

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Infant mortality rate

62
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The projected number of years a person can expect to live based on his or her year of birth

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Life expectancy

63
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The movement of people from one population group to another

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Migration

64
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When individuals join a population group of which they were not previously a member

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Immigration

65
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When members of a population leave that group

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Emmigration

66
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The overall percent change in a population per year

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Growth Rate

67
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As societies transform from pre-industrial to post-industrial, their population size shifts from small but stable with high birth and death rates, through a period of significant population growth, to large but stable, when both birth and death rates are low

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Demographic Transistion

68
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A disease or illness that cannot be understood apart from some specific social context

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Culture-bound Syndrom

69
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Societal expectations about the attitude and behavior of a person viewed as being ill

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Sick Role

70
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The immigration to the United States and other industrialized nations of skilled workers, professionals, and technicians who are needed in their home countries

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Brain Drain

71
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The study of the distribution of disease, impairment, and general health status across a population

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Social Epidemiology

72
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The number of new cases of a specific disorder that occur within a given population during a stated period

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Incidence

73
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The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at any given time

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Prevalence

74
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The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at any given time

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Prevalence

75
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The incidence of disease in a given population

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Morbidity rate

76
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The incidence of death in a given population

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Mortality Rate

77
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Latino folk medicine, a form of holistic health care and healing

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Curanderismo

78
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Therapies in which the health care practitioner considers the person’s physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual characteristics

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Holistic Medicine

79
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The area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their environments

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Human ecology

80
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A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards

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Environmental Justice

81
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A form of drilling for natural gas, using hydraulics for cracking the earths crust to thrust the natural gas from it

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Fracking

82
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2005 energy policy; lead by Dick Cheney; people who engage in Hydraullic fracturing don’t have to publish what chemicals are in the fluids

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Halliburton loop hole

83
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Military and Government form publishians for big business

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Interlocking Directorate

84
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What did the Government give to the people affected by fracking?

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Stipends (payments) so that they’d keep quite if anyone interviewed them.

85
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Millennium Project Goals by 2015

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  • eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • achieve universal primary education
  • promote gender equality and empower women
  • reduce child mortality
  • improve maternal health
  • combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
  • Ensure Environmental sustainability
  • Develop a global partnership for development

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