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Organizations/Agreements
Acronyms
Ch 15
Key Terms
Why???
100
This agreement was signed after WWII by the Allied countries in an effort to rebuild
What is The Bretton Woods Agreement?
100
HIPC is the acronym
What is Heavily Indebted Poor Country?
100
This is the word for the washing away of soil.
What is erosion?
100
This term is for the sale of government owned business to private business.
What is privatization?
100
This involves thinking about the environment from an ecological rather than a human standpoint?
What is ecological ethics?
200
This organization requires multiple conditions from countries before giving them loans, including reducing government debt and corruption...
What is The World Bank?
200
IMF is the acronym.
What is International Monetary Fund?
200
This is a sustainable approach to forestry.
What is selective cutting?
200
This is the term for the belief that an economy should be controlled by the people of the country.
What is economic nationalism?
200
These were set up to provide essential services not being delivered by private companies.
What are Crown Corporations?
300
Money for the IMF comes from...
What are member countries?
300
NAFTA is the acronym.
What is North American Free Trade Agreement?
300
The American desire for Canadian natural gas is exemplified by this.
What is the Mackenzie River Pipeline?
300
A Latin American country that is controlled by a large American corporation is called this.
What is a banana republic?
300
A negative result of this includes increased prices for electricity for Albertans.
What is deregulation?
400
This was created in 1999 and requires TNCs to abolish child labor and reduce greenhouse gas emissions
What is The Global Compact
400
FTAA is the acronym.
What is Free Trade Area of the Americas?
400
Consumer choices, transportation, and household management are all areas in which individuals can practice this.
What is stewardship?
400
This is the word for direct financial help provided to an industry by the government.
What is a subsidy?
400
These two countries fought in the Cold War.
What are the Soviet Union and the USA?
500
The World Bank and IMF are both agencies of...
What is The United Nations?
500
FIRA is the acronym.
What is Foreign Investment Review Agency?
500
Food has to be brought in to feed residents because of this.
What is urbanization?
500
Someone who works with information and data analysis is an example of this economy.
What is the knowledge economy?
500
This event enabled free market economies of the Western world to massively increase trade with eastern European countries.
What is the end of the Cold War?