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Poverty Unit
Global Relations Poverty Unit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What three things define the Human development index? | 1)life expectancy 2)knowledge (adult literacy rates,total school enrollment 3)GDP |
| What defines extream poverty? | -chronichally hungry -no health care -lack of safe water and sanitation-no education -no shelter |
| What made it possible for some countries to jump ahead? | THE INDUSTIRAL REVOLUTION -urbanization -social mobility -new gender and family roles-demographics transition -specialization in labor |
| How is state faliure defined? | revolutionary war -ethnic war -genocide -politicide -adverse or disruptive regime change |
| What are the three main things that affect weather or not a state fails? | infant mortality rates -openess of economy -democracy |
| What are the six main findings? | Multidimensionalism -Lack of material resource -Psycological aspects -absence of basic infrastucture -illness or lack of health care -lack of physical, social or enviornmental asset |
| What ways can a household increase thier income? | -saving -trading -technology -resource boom |
| What is an example of saving? | rather than growing four tons of wheat and eating four tons of wheat, you can eat three tons of wheat and sell the other one ton at the market. with that money they earned, they can maybe buy a dairy cow or chickens etc. |
| What is an example of trading? | rather than only using your land for crops to eat, you may start to plant cash crops and make some profit at the market. |
| What is an example of technology? | maybe planting a tree to help keep the soil down and enrich the soil in that area. |
| What is an example of a resource boom? | When a stable government is put in place, they can focus on how to help the people rather than fight for power. |
| How can a house hold decrease their income? | -lack of saving -absence of trade-technology reversal-natural resource decline-natural disasterpopulation growth |
| What is capital | physical, human or natural |
| What causes poverty in a country | fiscal traps government failurescultural barriersgeopoliticslack of innovationdemographic trap |
| How can a house hold decrease their income? | -lack of saving -absence of trade-technology reversal-natural resource decline-natural disasterpopulation growth |
| What is capital | physical, human or natural |
| What causes poverty in a country | fiscal traps -government failures -cultural barriers -geopoliticslack of innovation -demographic trap |
| Food insecurity | The fear and depression that goes along iwth not being able to feed your family. |
| Cycle of Debt | Cycle that poop people fall into and ins almost impossible to get out of. |
| Transparency | Being totally open with where all of the countries money goes *used to avoid corruption |
| Corruption | When a government uses peoples resources for own personal gain. |
| Infrastructure | *Transportation and communication *Water and powerlines *basic institutions |
| Human Capital | The basic a person has |
| Demographics | Show statistics about age, income, education, etc. |
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