Solving Inequalities Flashcards

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Mircocredit

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  • wireless pain phone service
  • 55,000 phones currently in operation
  • improve living hood of women
  • England to india
  • won international telecommunication union worlds information society in 2008
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Conservation swap

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  • USA to brazil
  • $21 million of Brazilian debt used to fund protecting tropical ecosystems
  • USA signed similar agreement with 15 other countries
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Debt relief

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  • LEDCs will never pay it back
  • Allows them to spend it on essentials
  • all uk political parties committed to maintain the aid target of spreading 0.7% of national income on aid
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Make poverty history

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  • National Corporation
  • puts pressure on governments to reduce debt
  • $1 billion per year of debt was dropped in 18 countries
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