Unit 4

Question 1

Standard of Living

Answer 1

A common measure of the quantity and quality of goods and services to which people have access

Question 2

Human Development Index

Answer 2

The United Nations measure of the country’s level of development based on GDP per capita, life expectancy at birth, adult literacy, and school enrollment

Question 3

GDP Index

Answer 3

A measure of a country’s gross domestic product per capita, one of the criteria for the UN Human Development Index

Question 4

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Answer 4

1990 international legislation outlining children’s rights, which recognizes that all children have the right to grow up in a family environment in an atmosphere of happiness, peace, dignity, tolerance, freedom, equality, and solidarity

Question 5

Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality

Answer 5

UN agency that has identified several areas of concern for women globally, including violence, poverty, education, and training, health, armed conflict, and women in power and decision making

Question 6

Employment Equity

Answer 6

The principle of equal pay for equal work, or for work of equal value

Question 7

Genetic Modification

Answer 7

Technology that allows genes from one species to be introduced into another to produce a hardier or higher- yielding strain

Question 8

Pandemic

Answer 8

A worldwide epidemic

Question 9

Public Trust

Answer 9

An essential, life supporting resource for the benefit of everyone that should not be exploited for profit

Question 10

Dissenting

Answer 10

Different from the majority, as, for example, an opinion