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| is an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs |
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| means control of its internal affairs without interference by other states |
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| does not refer to local governments such as those inside the united states |
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| how many states were in the UN in 1945? |
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| originated in ancient times in the fertile crescent |
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| developed in curope through consolidation of kingdoms |
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| a sovereign states that comprises a town and the surrounding countryside |
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| was organized into a succession of empires by the sumerians, assyrians, babylonians and persians |
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| consisted of a collection city-states including athens, corinth, and sparta |
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| lost their independence during the fourth century when they were ruled by macedonian kings |
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| collapsed in the fifth century after a series of attackes by people living on its frontiers and because of internal disputes |
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| the right to govern themselves within sovereign states |
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| is a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethinicity that has been transformed into a nationality |
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| good example of a nation state because the territory occupied by the danish ethnicity closely corresponds to the state oof |
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| contains two or more ethnic groups with traditional of selfetermination |
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| best example of a multinational state until its collapse in 1991 |
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| Unions of Soviet Socialist Republics |
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| 3 baltic states from soviet union |
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| Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania |
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| 3 european states from soviet union |
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| Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine |
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| five central Asian states from soviet union |
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| Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan |
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| 3 caucasus states from soviet union |
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| Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia |
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| worlds largest multinational state |
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| what is the main reason why borth korea and south korea cant get along? |
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| most soverign state in africa |
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| sahrawi arab democratic republic |
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| only land mass on earth's surface that is not part of a state |
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| Argentina, Australia, and the united kingdom claim portions of what country |
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| provides a legal framework managing antartica |
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| a signature signed by 158 countries has defined waters extending various distances from coastlines of states |
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| is a territory that si legally tied to a sovereign state rather than being completely independent |
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| is the effortm by one country to establish settlements in a territory and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles on that territory |
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| 3 reasons why european states did exploration |
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| entities that domnto classify as colonies |
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| they have long and narrow shape |
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| example of elongated states in africa |
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| includes several discountinous pieces of territory |
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| 2 types of fragmented states |
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- fragmented states separated by intervenign state
- fragmented states separated by water |
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| an example of a fragmented state separated by another state would be |
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| Angola sparated by the congo |
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| an example of a fragmented state separated by water would be |
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| compact state with a large projecting extension |
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- to provied a state with access to a resource such as water
- to separate two states that otherwise woudl share a boundry |
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| 2 reasons why prorputed states are made |
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| the distance from the center to any boundry does not vary significantly |
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| lacks a direct outlet to the sea because it is completely surrounded by other countries |
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| are especially common in sub-saharan africa |
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| a state that completley surrounds another one |
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| example of a perforated state |
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| south africa completely surrounds lesotho |
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| an invisible line marking the extent of a state's territory |
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| coincide with significant features of the natural landscape |
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| follow the distribution of cultural characteristics |
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| they make effective boundaries because they had to cross and sparsely inhabited |
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| effective boundry since they are difficult to cross |
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| rivers, lakes, and oceans are commonly used as boundries because they are readily visible on maps and aerial imagery |
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| 2 types of cultural boudnries |
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- geometric boudnries
- ethnic boudnries |
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| part fo the northern U.S. boundry with canada is a 2,100- kilometer straight line along 49 degress north latitude, running from lake of the woods between minnesota and manitoba to the strait of georgia between washington state and british columbia |
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| boundries between countires have been placed where possible to separate ethnic groups |
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| is a zone where no state exercise complete political control |
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| is the drawing of legeslative boundries to favor the party in power |
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| the process of redrawing legislative boundries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power is called |
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| 3 forms of gerrymandering |
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- wasted vote
- excess vote
- stacked |
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| spreads opposition supporters across many district as a minority |
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| concentrates opposition supporters into a few districts |
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| links distant areas of like-minded voters through oddly shaped boundries |
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| gerrymandering became illegal in |
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| after WW2 most european states joined 2 military alliances |
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| - had united states and 14 western european allies and canada in it |
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| the soviet union and six eastern european allies in it |
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| is a condition of roughly equal strength between opposing forces |
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| during the cold war era the 2 balance of powers were |
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| united states and soviet union |
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| a major confronting during the cold war between the united states and soviet union came in 1962 when soviet union places nuclear missle in cuba |
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| U.S. secretary of state colin powell spoke about how there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq |
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| is the systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands |
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| attempt to achieve their objectives through organized acts that spread fear and anxiety among the population |
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| they consider violence necessary as a means of bringing widespread publicity to goals and grievances that are not being addressed through peaceful means |
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| the most dramatic terrorists was |
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- known as the unabomber
- was convicted of killing 3 people and injuring 23 others by sending bombs through the mail during a 17 year period
- his targets were mainly academics in technological disciplines and executives in businesses |
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| was convicted and executed for the oklahoma city bombing and for assisting him terry the first |
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| responsible or implicated in most of the anti-U.S. terrorism |
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| responsible for the 911 attack |
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- founder of Al-Qaeda
- issued a declaration of war against the united states in 1996 because of U.S. support for Saudi Arabia and Israel |
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| argued that muslims had a duty to wage a holy war against the U.S. citizens because the United States was responsible for maintaining the Saud royal family as rulers of Saudi Arabia and a state of Israel dominated by jews |
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- operates like a buisness
- sets policies and oversees committees that specialize in such areas as finances, military, media, and religious policies |
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| is not a single unified organization |
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| several parts of asia have been accused of terrorism in the involvment of |
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- providing sancturary for terrorists wanted by other countries
- supplying terrorists with weapons, money, and intelligence
- planning attacks using terrorists |
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| countires known to provide sanctuary for terrorists include |
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| had gained power in afghanistan in 1995 and had imposed strict Islamic fundamentalist law on the population |
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| how were taliban's women treated? |
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| badly, they couldnt drive, go to school or work outside the home |
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| united states accused them of trying to develop nuclear weapons that could be launched against israel or its allies |
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| united states led an attack against them in 2003 in order to depose saddam hussein, the country's longtime president |
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- a 1986 bombing of a nightclub in berlin
- planting of bombs on Pan Am flight 103
- planting of bombs on UTA flight 772 |
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| have progressed further along the development continuum |
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| has made somg progress towards development though less than developed countries |
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| to measure the level of development of every country the UN created the |
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| Human development index has 3 factors |
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- a decent standard of living
- access to knowledge
- a long and healthy life |
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| modifies the human development index to account for inequality |
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| inequality adjusted human development index |
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| is the value of the output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, including money that leaves and enters the country |
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| is the value of the output of goods and services produced in a country in a year but it does not account for money that leaves and enters the country |
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| is an adjustment made to the GNI to account for differences among countries in the cost of goods |
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| jobs fall into 3 categories |
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| developign countries have a higher share of |
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| primary and secondary sectors |
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| is the value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it |
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| in manufacturing is the gross value of the product minus the costs of raw materials and energy |
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| vital to the economy's functioning and growth are goods and services related to communications such as telephones and computers |
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| united nations combines two measures of quantity of schooling |
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- years of schooling
- expected years of schooling |
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| 2 measures of quality of education include |
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- pupil/teacher ratio
- literacy rate |
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| is the percentage of a country's people who can read and write |
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| a baby born today in a developed region is on average expected to live ten years longer than one born in a developing region |
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| people live longer and are healthier in developed countries than in developing ones because of |
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| better access to health care |
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| wealth generated in developed countries is use to |
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| the gap between developed and developing countries is |
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| to measure the extent of each country's gender inequality, the united nations has created the |
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| empowerment dimension is measured by two indicators |
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- the percentage of seats held by women int he national legislature
- the percentage of women who have completed high school |
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| is the percent of women holding full-time jobs outside the home |
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| the labor force participation rate |
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| healthcare dimension is also measured by two indicators |
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- maternal mortality ratio
- adolescent fertility rate |
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| is the humber of women who die giving birth per 100,000 births |
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| maternal mortality ration |
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| is the number of biths per 1,000 women age 15-19 |
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| adolescent fertility rate |
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- the self sufficiency development path erects barriers to trade
- the international trade path allocates scarce resources to a few activities |
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- investment is spread equally as possible across all sectors
- the pace of development may be modest
- reducing poverty take precedence over encouraging a few people to become wealthy consumers
- fledging buisnesses are isolated from competition
- import of goods from othe rplaces is limited by barriers such as tariffs |
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| development through self sufficiency |
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- traditional society
- preconditions for takeoff
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- drive to maturity
- age of mass consumption |
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| five-stage model of development in 1960 |
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| south korea, singapore, taiwan, and the british colony of hong kong developed by producing a handful of manufactured goods, especially clothing and electronics that depended on low labor costs |
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- self sufficiency protected inefficient industries
- a large bureacracy was needed to administer the controls |
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| 2 major problems with self sufficiency |
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| 3 factors that have hindered countries outside the four asian dragons |
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- local hardships
- slow market growth
- low commodity prices |
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- reduced taxes and restrictions on imports and exports
- eliminated many monopolies
- encouraged improvement of the quality of products |
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| international trade triumphs |
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| world trade organization works to reduce barriers to trade in thress principle ways |
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- reduce or eliminate restrictions
- enforece agreements
- protect intellectual property |
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| investment made by a foriegn company in the economy of another country is known as |
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| foriegn direct investment |
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| msot developing coutnries also recieve aid directly from government of developed countries |
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| before getting debt relife a developing country is required to |
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| prepare a polciy framework paper |
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| includes economie reforms or adjsutments |
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| structural adjsutment program |
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| requirments placed on a developing country typically include |
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- spend only what it can afford
- direct benefits to the poor not just the elite
- divert investment from miltary to health and education spending
- invest scarce resources where they would have the most impact
- encourage a more productive private sector
- reform the government including a more eddicient civil service |
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| 2 sets of standards distinguish fair trade |
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- fairtrade labelling organization international sets international standards for fair trade
- standards applied to workers on farms and in factories |
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| fair trade requires emplyers to |
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- pay workers fair wages
- permit union organizing
- comply with minimum environemrntal and safety standards |
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1. end poverty and hunger
2. achieve universal primary
3. promote gender equality and empower women
4. reduce chidl mortality
5. improve maternal health
6. combat HIV/AIDS, malaria,a nd other diseases
7. ensure environmental sustainability
8. develop a global partnership for development |
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| united nationas has set 8 gaols to make the world a better place |
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