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What does GNI stand for?
Gross National Income
A state of being comfortable, healthy and happy.
Wellbeing
What does HDI stand for?
Human Development Index
What does HPI stand for?
Happy Planet Index
What does GDP stand for?
Gross Domestic Product
Charities that are not affiliated with any government agency.
Non-government organisation
Combination of geographic and political factors that influence a country or region around the management and use of water resources is called _____.
Water Geopolitics
The average number of a years a person is estimated to live from birth.
Life expectancy
What is the meaning of OECD?
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Disagreement caused by the perceived or actual opposition of needs, values and interests between people.
Conflict
Total GDP for a country which is divided by the country's total population to find the per capita amount.
Gross Domestic Product per capita
Total income of all citizens of a country which is generated from investment and earning overseas. Indicates the economic strength of a country.
Gross National Income
The rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
Philosophy
Describes how many resource-rich countries are experiencing lower levels of development than other countries with less natural resources.
Resource curse
What word describes a river shared between two or more nations (i.e. crosses at least one political border).
Transboundary
Describes how some populations have access to a greater accessibility and availability to resources and services than others.
Spatial inequality
Measure of income inequality, between 0 (i.e. perfect equality) and 1 (i.e. perfect inequality).
Gini coefficient
An index that measures a countries average achievements in three aspects of human development: life expectancy at birth, education and GNI per capita.
Human Development Index
Describes how a society categorises people and ranks them in the social hierachy.
Social stratification
People do not have enough money or resources to access basic needs like food, clothing, clean water and shelter.
Absolute poverty
The mutual exchange of money and/or goods between two governments.
Bilateral aid
Aid that is given to countries after natural disasters like earthquakes, flooding and tsunamis.
Emergency humanitarian aid
Money, goods and/or services provided by a government to another country, with the aims of improving wellbeing.
Foreign aid
Many countries working together to provide aid through international organisations, like the United Nations World Food Program.
Multilateral aid
The deliberate killing of female babies after birth. While the practice is illegal, it has been a major issue in a few countries.
Female infanticide