MMHS Chapter 6 Global Poverty
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 income levels | money earned by individuals or families |
| physical quality of life index | an attempt to measure the quality of life or well-being of a country. The value is the average of three statistics: basic literacy rate, infant mortality, and life expectancy at age one |
| most poor people live in... | Africa, parts of Asia, and Latin America |
| world population of the hungry | 1/5 |
| malnourished | sicknesses and death |
| malnutrition | a state resulting from a diet lacking the nutrients vital to good health |
| undernourishment | amount of food is less than what can sustain life |
| what causes famine? | war and government because the people get caught in between |
| 3 reasons why people are hungry.. | 1. poor 2. not enough food production 3. too much exportation of food (usually forced to export by oligarchies) |
| negative side effect of colonization | natives' language and culture is pushed aside or eliminated |
| large populations in.. | smaller countries |
| cash crops | crops produced in large quantities to be sold or traded |
| food crops | crops grown to feed the people within a country |
| landowners commonly use land for.. | only the production of cash crops |
| hunger is a moral issue when.. | food is not distributed equally |
| world priority changes: | 1) people have to be put first above profits and politics 2) eating habits 3) how we view each other 4) increase in food production 5) reduction of waste 6) end of government corruption that stops the distribution of food |
| scarcity of food as not as bad as the.. | scarcity of water |
| single-export economy | budgets based on one product as the main source of income |
| (2) single-export countries.. | have unstable economies and are vulnerable |
| multi-national corporations | Corporations that have many assets in many countries which is beneficial to the company |
| multi-national corporations cons (2) | 1. can pay unjust wages 2. forces workers to accept these wages |
| Gross National Product | the measure of the overall wealth of a country |
| oligarchies | government ruled by an elite few (can be dictorial or democratic) |
| liberation theology | a movement within the Catholic church to understand Christianity from the perspective of the poor and oppressed, with a focus on fighting injustice. Believes all people are intitled to be free |
| theologians | scholars of religion |
| sin | failure to love |
| Luke | gospel with the most meals |
| meals symbolized | intimate connection/communication regardless of class, race, or language |
| food = | universal language |
| triage | the practice of placing people into 3 groups based on their likelihood of survival and treating the first 2 groups most likely to survive |
| war on poverty/hunger (4) | 1. ration food 2. stretch resources 3. waste less 4. grow victory gardens |
| overconsumption | the use of resources at a rate that exceeds the ability of natural processes to replace them |
| military spending | for some countries half of their budget goes toward war |
| energy intensive | large scale farming with use of heavy machinery. mass production but takes away jobs. |
| labor intensive | small scale farming done by people |
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