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Mass emigration of talented people
Brain Drain
Leaving one’s country to settle in another.
Emigration
Coming to a country to settle permanently.
Immigration
Migration to a specific place because relatives or the same nationality previously immigrated there.
Chain Migration
A person who temporarily moves to a location for work
Guest Worker
Person forced to migrate for fear of persecution.
Refugee
A person who enters a country without proper documentation.
Unauthorized Immigrant
Money sent “back home” to a worker’s country of origin
Remittance
A person forced to migrate as a refugee, but has not crossed an international border
Internally Displaced Person
Which Human Development Index (HDI) rating is considered a very highly developed country?
Over .8
What HDI rating is considered a low-developing country?
Less than .55
A measure of the level of development in a given country
Human Development Index
Metrics for the Human Development Index (HDI):
Standard of living
A long and healthy life
Access to knowledge
The value of the output of goods and services produced in a country, in one year, including money that leaves and enters the country
Gross National Income
Mining is an example of which economic activity sector?
Primary
Construction is part of which economic sector?
Secondary
A waiter is part of which economic sector?
Tertiary
A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler, and not the people
Autocracy
A country in which citizens elect leaders that run for office
Democracy
The basic format for every worldview
Creation, Fall, Redemption
Founded by Siddhartha Gautama:
Buddhism
An idea or innovation that spreads from one people group, to another
Cultural Diffusion
Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.
Ethnicity
Identity with a group of people who are perceived to share a physiological trait.
Race
The only religion in which human salvation is based the work the Divine did.
Christianity