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Development |
The notion that some countries are poor because they have small industrial plants and do you lines of communication and that they should pursue both by acquiring these and other things |
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Gross national income (GNI) |
The total value of all goods and services produced in a country |
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Models for development |
1. Modernization theory 2. Human needs approaches 3. Structural adjustment |
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Modernization theory |
A model development that predicts that nonindustrial societies will move in the social and technological direction of industrialized nations |
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World Bank |
And agency of the United Nations, officially called the international Bank for Reconstruction and development, that provide loans to promote international trade and economic development, especially to poor nations |
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Human needs approaches |
Projects aimed at providing access to clean water, education, healthcare for the poorest of the world's people |
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Structural adjustment |
A development policy promoted by Western nations, particularly the United States, that requires poor nations to pursue free market the reforms in order to get new loans for the international monetary fund and world bank |
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Neoliberalism |
Political and economic policies that promote free trade, individual initiative, and minimal government regulation of the economy, and a oppose state control or subsidy to industries and all but minimal aid to impoverished individuals |
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Multinational corporations |
A corporation that owns business enterprises or plants in more than one nation. |
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What do migration connections bring? |
Money, idea, information, and products |
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Who do multinational corporation's contribute wealth with? |
Try to contribute well to their shareholders, most of whom live in the wealthiest nations |
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Where do multinational corporation's move to? |
They moved to Lisa expensive places to produce goods and most profitable places to sell them depend on cheap labor provided by women and children |
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Sweatshop |
Generally a pejorative term for a factory with working conditions that may include low wages, long hours, in adequate ventilation, and physical, and mental, or sexual abuse |
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What is the urban population going to be like by 2050? |
The urban population will be about six .4 billion this is equal to the world's total population in 2004 |
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Do urbanization change immigrants? |
It changes both the immigrants themselves in the community they leave behind urban life can be extremely difficult |
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Urban migration |
Percentage of people living in cities is rising more rapidly in poor than in wealthy nations |
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What are some challenges today? |
Environmental challenges, political stability, and migration |
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What are environmental challenges? |
Pollution and global warming |
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Do you migrations provide? |
Their communities of origin with connections to the rest of the world, creating a broad network of support |
