Alphabet Soup
This international organization lowers trade restrictions between the US, Mexico, and Canada.
What is NAFTA?
This enduring issue applies to the global economy.
What is interconnectedness (or, I guess, impact of technology)?
This country has experienced the benefits of globalization and is now the country with the second highest GDP.
What is China?
Overpopulation often leads to this enduring issue, which is described as a lack of resources, such as food.
What is scarcity?
This country has joined and left climate agreements, like the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement.
Who is the United States?
This international organization lowers trade restrictions between European countries.
What is the EU?
This term describes all of the countries that are involved in making a product and supplying it to another country.
What is the global supply chain?
Globalization has led to the creation of some helpful international organizations, such as the WTO, which aims to facilitate this.
What is trade?
This cost of globalization is best described as a lot of people in a limited amount of space.
What is overpopulation/overcrowding?
This meeting that takes place each year in an attempt to find solutions to climate problems.
What is COP (Conference of Parties?)
This international organization loans money to lessen the impact of economic downturns.
What is the IMF?
This term describes a technique used by companies to reduce costs by moving their manufacturing and factories overseas.
What is outsourcing?
Globalization typically benefits a country with this kind of economic system, as seen in the United States.
What is capitalism?
This technique, used by companies to lower costs by moving manufacturing overseas, has resulted in less jobs available domestically and higher unemployment.
What is outsourcing.
This agreement was designed to set more flexibile carbon emissions goals.
What is the Paris Climate Agreement?
This international organization is designed to prevent wars, maintain peace, and also partakes in humanitarian efforts (like UNICEF, UNESCO, UNAID, etc)
The competition for this often causes countries to form international organizations (like OPEC) or begin conflicts.
What are natural resources?
These countries, who have already 'completed' the process of modernization, benefit the most from globalization.
What are developed countries?
What are developing countries?
This term describes the spread of deserts.
What is desertification?
These are organizations whose members are NOT countries, they are independent from country governments (Doctors without Borders)
What is an NGO?
The global economy is made up of _________ countries, who are just beginning the process of modernization, and ______________ countries, who have 'completed' it already.
What are developing and developed?
This international organization has lent billions of dollars to help alleviate poverty and support developing countries.
What is the World Bank?
This treaty from COP3 was designed to combat climate change and carbon emissions, which are costs of globalization
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
The United States has left climate agreements because of its interest in preserving this type of independence/free will.
What is sovereignty?