skilled, wealthy migrants, often experts in finance and
investment
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concentrations of particular communities in an area, such as
a high concentration of Asian or Asian British residents with a
Pakistani background in East London
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the term now used by China instead of ‘Special Economic
Zones’ which describes areas set up by national
governments to offer financial or tax incentives to attract FDI,
which differ from those incentives normally offered by a
country
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an independent not-for-profit organisation which aims to
return a bigger proportion of the revenue to producers or
growers
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investment made by an overseas company or organisation
into a company or organisation which is based in another
country, FDI
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when companies operate in competition with each other, with
minimal governmental control
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a market where traders can buy and sell futures contracts, in
which contractors agree to supply and deliver goods at an
agreed price at a time in the future
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an IGO consisting of the USA, UK, France, Canada,
Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia, which meets annually to
discuss development
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an IGO which comprises 19 individual countries plus the EU.
It brings together developed and developing countries to
discuss key economic issues, it represents over half of the worlds population
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a measure of inequality which considers how far wealth
distribution within a country deviates from perfect equality
