When the Sun is Shining
The study of how people, governments, and societies use limited resources.
What is economics?
This term refers to the deceptive practice by companies to appear environmentally friendly when their practices are not.
What is greenwashing?
This short story from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's collection focuses on Nnamabia, a university student who ends up in a corrupt Nigerian prison.
What is "Cell One"?
This index measures the ecological efficiency with which human well-being is delivered around the world.
What is the Happy Planet Index (HPI)?
This invention by James Watt in the late 18th century became a driving force of the Industrial Revolution, greatly improving efficiency in factories and transportation.
What is the steam engine?
The total value of goods and services a country produces.
What is GDP?
This artistic form uses humor and satire to comment on political events and social issues.
What is a political cartoon?
This protagonist of "Imitation" grapples with the revelation of her husband's affair.
Who is Nkem?
This economic measure, adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP), is used in the HDI to assess standard of living.
What is gross national income (GNI) per capita?
This term describes the massive movement of people from rural areas to cities during the Industrial Revolution.
What is urbanization?
This type of unemployment happens when skills don’t match available jobs.
What is structural unemployment?
This phenomenon involves travellers visiting locations primarily to take photos for social media.
What is Instagram tourism?
The protagonist's goal in "The American Embassy," which means to seek refuge from political persecution.
What is asylum?
Dollar Street categorizes households from different countries based on this financial measure.
What is monthly income?
The process of combining land into larger, private farms, often using fences or hedges.
What was the enclosure movement?
When a government uses taxes and spending to influence the economy.
What is fiscal policy?
This Swiss-Lebanese cartoonist is known for his political cartoons published in international newspapers.
Who is Patrick Chappatte?
The event that brings Chika and the Hausa woman together in "A Private Experience."
What is a market riot?
A GINI coefficient of this value represents perfect equality in income distribution.
What is 0?
A person who starts and runs a business, in the process taking financial risks.
What is an entrepreneur?
The value of the next best alternative that is given up when a choice is made.
What is an opportunity cost?
This map projection was created by Buckminster Fuller and represents the Earth's continents with minimal distortion.
What is the Dymaxion Map?
This artifact symbolizes the protagonist's connection to her Nigerian heritage in "Imitation."
What is a Benin mask?
The SDGs are part of this broader UN plan for sustainable development.
What is the 2030 Agenda?
A legal right protecting an inventor’s idea.
What is a patent?