Straight Definition Concepts

Question 1

Human Development Index (HDI)

Answer 1

Measures each country’s social and economic development by focusing on three factors: life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators.

Question 2

Discourse

Answer 2

A way of talking, thinking, or representing a particular topic that contains valuable information about that topic.

Question 3

Orientalism

Answer 3

A way of The West differentiating itself from The Rest; The West’s way of gaining control/dominance over the Orient (The Global South/The Rest)

Question 4

Economic Growth

Answer 4

A continued increase in the size of an economy.

Question 5

Sustainable Development Goals

Answer 5

A universal plan to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure world peace by 2030.

Question 6

Internally Displaced People (IDPs)

Answer 6

Persons forced to leave their homes as a result of fleeing violence.

Question 7

Direct Foreign investment

Answer 7

An investment in the form of a controlling ownership in a business in one country by an entity based in another country.

Question 8

Social capital

Answer 8

Networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively.

Question 9

Structural violence

Answer 9

social structures (economic, political, legal, religious, and cultural) that stop individuals, groups, and societies from reaching their full potential and create human suffering.

Question 10

Conflicted and fragile states

Answer 10

A group of countries or territories which are categorized by the World Bank’s Fragile, Conflict and Violence group according to their financial and security status.

Question 11

Gender Development Index

Answer 11

A measure of gender inequalities in achievement in three basic dimensions of human development.

Question 12

Representation

Answer 12

The action of speaking/acting on behalf of someone.

Question 13

Clientelism

Answer 13

A social order that depends upon relations or patronage; in particular, a political approach that emphasizes or explains such relations.

Question 14

Social Categories

Answer 14

The process that groups individuals based on social information; the “Big Three” categorizations being sex, race, and age.

Question 15

ODA

Answer 15

Official Devlopment Assistance. Government aid that targets the economic development and welfare of developing countries.

Question 16

Remittances

Answer 16

The act of sending money in payment for something.

Question 17

Gini Coefficient

Answer 17

A summary measure of income inequality.

Question 18

Multidimensional Poverty Line

Answer 18

A measure of poverty that captures deprivations in education, access to basic infrastructure and income/consumption at the $2.15 international poverty line.

Question 19

Failed (Fragile) State Index

Answer 19

Measures the normal pressures that all states experience, but also identifies when those pressures outweigh a state’s capacity to manage those pressures.

Question 20

Syndemic Crisis

Answer 20

The aggregation of two or more diseases in a population for where there is some level of harmful biological or behavioral interface that worsen the negative effects of both diseases.

Question 21

Syndemic Crisis

Answer 21

The aggregation of two or more diseases in a population for where there is some level of harmful biological or behavioral interface that worsen the negative effects of both diseases.