Development Issues
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| development | The ability to lead a long and healthy life, to acquire knowledge, and to have a decent standard of life (UNDP)
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| HDI | A combined measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and have a decent standard of living.
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| trade | the activity or process of buying, selling, or exchanging goods or services
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| trading bloc | A set of countries that are doing international trade, normally linked by a free trade agreement
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| fair trade | A trade that emphasizes small businesses and worker-owned and democratically run cooperatives and requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permit union organizing, and comply with minimum environmental and safety standards.
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| development | The ability to lead a long and healthy life, to acquire knowledge, and to have a decent standard of life (UNDP)
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| HDI | A combined measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and have a decent standard of living.
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| trade | the activity or process of buying, selling, or exchanging goods or services
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| trading bloc | A set of countries that are doing international trade, normally linked by a free trade agreement
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| fair trade | A trade that emphasizes small businesses and worker-owned and democratically run cooperatives and requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permit union organizing, and comply with minimum environmental and safety standards.
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| globalization | The idea that people, goods and information can now 'travel' around the world much more quickly than before. The world is now interconnected and interdependent.
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| colonialism | Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, social, economic and cultural principles in another country for an extended period of time.
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| industrial revolution | A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s
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| Human Development Index (HDI) | AN INDICATOR OF THE LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT for each country, constructed by the United Nations, that is BASED ON INCOME, LITERACY, EDUCATION AND LIFE EXPECTANCY.
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| Gross National Income (GNI) | 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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| Purchasing Power Pairty (PPP) | THE AMOUNT OF MONEY NEEDED IN ONE COUNTRY TO PURCHASE THE SAME GOODS AND SERVICES IN ANOTHER COUNTRY; PPP adjusts income figures to account for differences amount countries in the cost of goods.
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| Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | THE VALUE OF TOTAL OUTPUT OF GOODS AND SERVICES produced in a country in a given time period (normally a year).
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| Primary Sector | THE PORTION OF THE ECONOMY CONCERNED WITH THE DIRECT EXTRACTION OF MATERIALS FROM EARTH'S SURFACE, generally through agriculture, although sometimes by fishing, mining and forestry.
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| Secondary Sector | THE PORTION OF THE ECONOMY CONCERNED WITH MANUFACTURING useful products THROUGH PROCESSING, TRANSFORMING, AN ASSEMBLING RAW MATERIALS.
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| Tertiary Sector | THE PORTION OF THE ECONOMY CONCERNED WITH TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS, AND UTILITIES, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people, in exchange for payment.
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| Literacy Rate | The percentage of a country's people who can read and write.
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| Levels of development | Measured by HDI
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| sustainable development | Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
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| ecotourism | A form of tourism that supports the conservation and sustainable development of ecologically unique areas and wildlife.
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