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| The world's poorest regions, the global S, where most people live also called developing countries or underdeveloped countries |
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| states in the global S, the poorest regions of the world, also called third world countries, LDCs, and underdeveloped countries |
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| Millenium Development Goals |
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| UN targets for basic needs measures such as reducing poverty and hunger, adopted in 2000 with a target date of 2015 |
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| The fundamental needs of people for adequate food, shelter, health care, sanitation, and education. Metting such needs may be thought of as both a moral imperative and a form of investment in "human capital" essential for economic growth |
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| A lack of needed foods including protein and vitamins, about 10 million children die each year from malnutrition-related causes |
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| Rural communities growing food mainly for their own consumption, rather than for sale |
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| An agricultural good produced as a commodity for export to world markets |
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| Polices that aim to break up large land holding and redistribute land to poor peasants for use in subsistence farming |
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| Movement between states, usually emigration from the old state and immigration to the new state |
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| A surplus created by investing money in productive capital rather than using it for comsumption |
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| a view of the world in terms of regional class divisions, with industrialized countries as the core, poorest countries as the periphery and, and other areas as the semi-periphery |
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| The difficulties faced by resource-rich developing countries, including dependence on exporting one or a few commodities whose prices fluctuate, as well as potentials for corruption and inequality |
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| The continuation, in a former colony, of colonial exploration without formal political control |
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| A Marxist oriented theory that explains the lack of capital accumulation in the third world as a result of of the interplay between domestic class relations and the forces or foreign capital |
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| A historically important form of dependency in which foreign capital is invested in a third world country to extract a particular raw material in a particular place, usually a mine, oil well, or plantation |
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