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What are remittances?
Sending money to random people for fun
Sum of money sent in payment as a gift
Sum of money sent in payment for no reason
I don't know
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What are Indices?
Financial or money (currency) matters
An arrangement of material or figures in a numerical order
A set of items in a alphabetical order
A Magnitude of a physical property
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What are the Origins of Debt?
Poor country's Dictators took borrowed money for themselves
Decreasing reliance on aid
Rising interest rates meant that loan repayments increased
Stealing too much of another countries food
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What is Development Aid?
Aid provided my multiple donors
Aid that is given to benefit the country
Aid that is given to developing countries
Aid that is given to countries for further development
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What is Free trade?
The exchange of goods and/or services?
A transnational corporation
Lending labels to companies that treat suppliers well
None of the above
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What is Debt Relief?
Partial or total remission of debts
Sum of money that is owed or due
Banana Wars
loans given to people that struggle to get credit from banks
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What are the problems caused by debt?
Problems of raising future capital
Reduced investment in Fast food restaurants
More Debt
High levels of unemployment
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Polarisation is when..
there is a polar bear crisis
we cause something to acquire polarity
there are polarised microscopes everywhere
there is a massive division between two groups
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What is benefit of Free trade?
Countries who participate in free trade grow faster
Countries may be forced to change policies to suit TNCs
Countries who participate in free trade don't survive
Countries who participate in free trade grow slower
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What is a formal economy?
A Black Market
A economy sector taxed, monitored, regulated by government
A country's economy with people dressed in formal clothing
A economy sector not taxed nor monitored by the government
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What does a Newly Industrialising Country mean?
Newly industrialising country
Most important sector of the economy is the secondary sector
Tertiary sector is the most important sector of the economy
Important sector of the economy is the primary sector
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Which one below is a Millennium Development Goal
Make America great again!
Increase Poverty
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Increased child mortality
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What does the Human Development Index include?
1.GNI per capita 2.Life Expectancy 3.Compare schooling years
1.GNI per capita 2.Life Expectancy 3.Adult literacy
1.GNI per capita 2.Birth Rate 3.HDI stuff
1.GDP per capita 2.Birth Rate 3.Death Rate
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Reasons for decreasing life expectancy..
Yeezus
Improved medical care
High education
Diseases
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What is a Income gap?
Income gap between the richest and poorest in a country
Gap between Mexico and USA
Income gap between your mum and dad
Gap between two gang members
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What is not an advantage of HDI?
Environmental Factors are not considered, e.g. China
Does not measure human rights or gender or corruption
Allows temporal changes
Allows comparison between regions and countries
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Infant mortality rates can be high for a number of reasons including:
Bad Diet
Too.. much.. CARE!!!
Baby's find their ways out too soon..
Lack of Education
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What does GDP stand for?
Gross Domestic Product
Gross Democratic Product
Gross Domestic Income
Gross National Product
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What are the problems with monetary measures?
Countries not using different currencies
Government nor economists know the true value of economies
Cherishing important aspects of development e.g. Education
The value of currencies changing against each other
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Poverty Defined as..
the state of being extremely poor
the state of being of being an extremist
the state of being extremely not poor
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Is AIDS good for you?
Yes
No
I want some..
Absolutely
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What is TNC?
Big company that operates in multiple countries
Transnational Credit
Free trade zone
World Trade Organisation
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What does Marginalisation mean?
When a group of people become included in a community
When a countries population dies from a outbreak of diseases
When a group of people become separated from society
None above
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What is a social indicator?
The variety of plants and animals within a country?
The percentage of land covered in forrest gump?
GDP/GNP/GNI per capita?
Murder Rate?
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Underemployment is when..
a country has low employment rates
people don't have a job
people employed in a job below their skill/education level
people work work work work work work
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What are Inequalities or Disparities?
Difference in the amount of money and possessions they own.
Difference in the way people are treated or paid
Difference between different differences on difference scale
Difference between the way people behave
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What are reasons for the increase in life expectancy?
Better provision of clean water
All the below
Worse medical care
Decrease in food production
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What is the key to reducing HIV infection rates
Impove availability of corn-domes
Improve HIV transmission
Improve knowledge in sex education
Improve car systems
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What does Emergency Aid include?
Tents for shelter and Clothing
Weapons for defence?
Food and Dirty Water
Emeraid?
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What are advantages of remittances and migration?
Money that is sent back to family and friends
Brain drain
Reduces employment
Reduces pressure on infrastructure
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What is an economic indicator?
The number of species that are endangered within a country?
The number of doctors per 100,000 of population?
The average income of countries?
Life expectancy?
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What are some factors not causing disparities in wealth?
Personal Education; more likely to get a job, stay healthy
Rich in resources; able to earn money through exports
None the above
Residence; e.g. birth in Japan or Afghanistan
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How to calculate the GNI per capita?
GNP - GDP = GNI
Total GDP divided by total GNI
Total GNI of a country divided by its total population
Total GNI of a country divided by global population
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What is Gross Domestic Product?
the values of currencies changing against each other
total market value of goods/services produced in a year
financial or money (currency) matters.
total value of goods/services produced domestically a year
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What are ways education can be measured?
Percentage of university graduates
Schooling Years
Percentage of primary graduates
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Multilateral Aid Defined?
Aid that is given by multiple donors to a specific country
Aid that is given by one country directly to another country
Aid that is given to benefit the country.
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What are not advantages of remittances and migration?
Families dependent on one or two members living abroad
Migrants can return with new skills
Increasing employment
Improved relations with countries
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What is not a benefit of protectionism?
Gives local companies a chance to become TNCs
Skilled jobs taken by foreigners, leading to unemployment
Pollution caused by TNCs not caring
TNCs may take over local producers and step on them
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How can Education be measured?
School enrolment
Student teacher ratio
None the above
Adult literacy
