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Slums and Cities
Model UN
Economics
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Islamic State
100
The Dharavi slum is located in this Indian city.
What is Mumbai?
100
This is the first motion made in a Model UN conference.
What is the motion to open debate?
100
These indicators measure the size of a country's economy.
What is GDP (gross domestic product) or GNP (gross national product)?
100
The United Kingdom compromises these four countries.
What is England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland?
100
IS controls large areas of these two countries.
What are Iraq and Syria?
200
Most economic activity within slums takes place within this sector of the economy.
What is the informal sector?
200
The goal of a Model UN committee is to draft these.
What are resolutions?
200
Governments levy these in order to raise the prices of imported goods and protect domestic industry.
What is a tariff?
200
This waterway connects the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
200
IS had close ties with this terrorist organization until February 2014.
What is Al-Qaeda?
300
This is the largest city in Africa.
What is Lagos, Nigeria?
300
The delegates who wrote the resolution are known as this.
What are sponsors?
300
This is the central bank of the United States.
What is the Federal Reserve?
300
This city is known as the Gateway to Asia.
What is Istanbul, Turkey?
300
This Middle Eastern nation recently deployed its first female fighter pilot against IS.
What is the United Arab Emirates?
400
Pharmaceutical companies have greater economic incentives to development treatments to diseases rather than this.
What are vaccinations?
400
A delegate may not do this if he/she indicated that he/she was "present and voting".
What is abstain?
400
This book by Adam Smith is widely regarded as the most important economic work in history.
What is "The Wealth of Nations"?
400
This European country uses polders and dikes to "reclaim" land from the sea.
What is the Netherlands?
400
Many experts believe that gaining the cooperation of this country is vital in counterterrorism efforts against IS.
What is Turkey?
500
China uses this system to slow the growth of slums near large cities.
What is the houku system?
500
If a chair does not believe that a motion will help the flow of debate, he/she may rule the motion this.
What is "dilatory" or "out of order"?
500
Zimbabwe, Germany, and Hungary all experienced this destructive economic phenomenon.
What is hyperinflation?
500
This is the least densely populated country in the world.
What is Mongolia?