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What is the gross domestic product (GDP)?
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All the goods and services on record as produced by a country’s economy in a given year.
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What is relative poverty?
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The deprivation of some people in relation to those who have more.
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What is absolute poverty?
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A lack of resources that is life-threatening.
-Suffer from hunger |
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What is neocolonialism?
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A new form of global power relationship that involves not direct political control byt economic exploitation by multinational corporations.
-Wenn China Afrika viel Geld gibt und dafür die Bodenschätze bekommt & andere lebensnotwenige Resourcen |
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What are multinational corporations?
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Large corporations that operate in many different countries.
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What are the problems with the Millennium Goals?
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1) the targets have been set too low
2) there are real problems about measuring poverty 3) time problem; population will grow 4) ideological element → people want to find ‘progress’ |
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What are the 4 key groups that are the most vulnerable to poverty?
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1) Children
2) Refugees (Flüchtlinge) 3) Zhe ageing 4) Women |
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What is the modernization theory?
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It can be linked to the advance of industrial societies overtaking traditional life.
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What are the neoliberal theories of development?
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Profit is the motor engine of social change.
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What are the dependency and underdevelopment theories?
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Poor countries have been exploited (ausgenutzt) which has lead to underdevelopment.
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