IMF / World Bank
The International Monetary fund generally focuses on problems that are
Short Term or Immediate.
The invention of seed planting machines and threshers lead to more jobs for people on farms.
False
Cattan is a game that tests how a player gets and manages these.
What are resources or raw goods.
2000 of these are cut down in the Amazon every minute.
What are trees.
The first colony of the British was this place
What is Newfoundland
The combined goal of the International Monetary fund and the World Bank is to....
What is, raising living standards in their member countries.
Industrialization lead to better working conditions and a better quality of life for workers.
False
The growth in global connections is called this.
What is Globalization
The only part of the consumer goods economy you are supposed to see is this.
What is Consumption (use) or the Golden Arrow of Consumption
The domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region.
What is Imperialism
The World Bank focuses on these types of projects to eliminate poverty.
Long term projects ...like schools, roads, hospitals and access to needed resources.
More food leads to this....
More people!
This is the cause of the Economic Problem
What is Scarcity
On average a person in North America produces this much garbage a day.
What is 4.5 - 5 pounds or 2.2 kilos.
The British really started colonizing Africa and Asia when they lost this Colony to revolution
What is the America's or The United States.
When was the IMF and the World Bank founded?
What is, after world war II
Due to industrialization European countries began to use their colonies to get more of these.
Raw resources.
Any unseen force that changes markets is referred to by economists as this.
What is the invisible Hand.
Made to break or made for the dump.
What is planned obsolescence.
When the Chinese would not buy British goods, the British sold them this to make up for the trade deficit.
What is opium or drugs.
Although the IMF and the World Bank are run by the United Nations, which countries have the most voting power?
The United States and Europe (this privilege was brought about by Imperialism)
The industrial Revolution Began in Britain. What two resources did Britain have that allowed in to industrialize so quickly?
Iron and Coal
Outsourcing means that a company does this.
Pays another company to do their work.
Extraction means this.
What is the mining and gathering of raw resources needed to make stuff.
Social Darwinism (based on the theory of evolution) became popular in order to justify what?
What is Imperialism, racism or european supremacy