Unit 1: Globalization
Type of globalization characterized by global financial integration and trade relations.
What is economic globalization?
What are LEDCs?
Index that measures both economic and social development.
What is the Human Development Index or HDI?
These individuals believe that technology and human innovation will solve our current environmental and population challenges.
Who are Cornucopians?
What are the global commons?
What is trade?
The most severe form of poverty wherein people live on $1.90USD or less a day and can barely subsist.
What is 'extreme poverty'?
Child labour jobs can be characterized as being dangerous, degrading and this.
What is 'dirty'?
Regions of the world that are home to the 'oldest populations' on the planet.
What are western and southern Europe?
Policies put in place to try and slow the impacts of globalization and to focus on local economic growth.
What are protectionist policies or protectionism?
These companies are said to encourage a 'race to the bottom."
What are Transnational Corporations or TNCs?
What is Haiti?
There are now more than this number of people around the world who have been forcibly displaced from their homes.
What is 100 million?
All biotic and abiotic aspects of the natural environment.
What is 'total stock'?
What is Iran?
Those who hold this view of globalization believe that there is nothing particularly new about contemporary levels of economic integration and much of the hype about globalization is exaggerated.
What are sceptics or the sceptical view?
Conditions that often accompany loans from International Financial Institutions.
What are Structural Adjustment Programs or SAPs?
While global school enrolment rates for boys and girls are near equal, these rates differ drastically.
William Kamkwamba, David Suzuki, the internet, smartphones, electric cars, Jacinda Ardern.
What are agents of change?
Canada and the US would be in this stage of Demographic Transition?
What is stage 4?
Emerging in the 1960s, these liberal political and economic views highly encouraged economic growth, free trade and open markets.
What is neoliberalism?
A severe, short-term shortage of food caused by a temporary failure of food production or food distribution that leads to starvation.
What is 'famine'?
Politically stable countries typically have peace and economic ties, a balanced society and this.
What is a strong central government?
First two countries where Green Revolution HYVs and technology were implemented with great success.
What are Mexico and India.
Development theory that continues to inform much of today's foreign aid funding and IFI policies for supporting development in LEDCs.
What is Rostow's Modernization Theory?