Favouring or enforcing strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.
Authoritarian
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Economic and social system in which all (or nearly all) property and resources are collectively owned by a classless society and not by individual citizens.
Communist
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The belief that wealth, and the ability to buy goods and services, leads to happiness.
Consumerism
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Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power.
Corruption
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The belief that a developed society is one where everyone has the right to vote.
Democracy
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The reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry usually enacted to create more competition within the industry.
Deregulation
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The process by which a country evolves over time for the better in terms of economic, social, political and sustainable change
Development
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A government or country in which total power is held by a dictator or a small group
Dictatorship
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Financial aid given by governments and other agencies to support the economic, environmental, social and political development of developing countries.
Development aid
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A notoriously deadly virus that causes severe symptoms, the most prominent being high fever and massive internal bleeding.
Ebola
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The belief that markets should be free, and people should be at liberty to make money how they choose.
Economic Freedom
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An official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country.
Embargo
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Trade without tariffs, quotas, or other restrictions
Free trade
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An indicators combines impacts on the natural environment (the ecological footprint) with the well-being of people (life expectancy), and considers the efficiency of resource use in improving people’s lives without damaging the environment
Happy Planet Index
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Dealing with or treating the whole of something and not just a part of it.
Holistic
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The belief that individuals should have the right to pursue their own actions and dreams.
Individualism
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The original population.
Indigenous
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The number of infant deaths that occur for every 1,000 live births
Infant mortality
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A serious tropical disease spread by mosquitoes.
Malaria
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Number of maternal deaths per live births.
Maternal mortality
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Responsibility is given to the individual in a free-market and deregulated economy
Neo-liberal
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States which were once run and exploited by others.
Post-colonial states
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The transfer of ownership, property or business from the government to the private sector.
Privatisation
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A country's independent authority and the right to govern itself.
Sovereignty
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To undermine the power and authority in a particular country.
Subverted
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The collection and publication of small area statistics. They are used on the Neighbourhood Statistics site and across National Statistics
Super Output Area
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Development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Sustainable development
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The belief that problems can be solved by using technology, especially high-end technology.
Technology
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A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralised control
Totalitarian
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Treaty or an international agreement on conditions of trade in goods and services.
Trade agreement
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An act carried out during the conduct of a war that violates accepted international rules of war.
War crime
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Economic and social system in which all (or nearly all) property and resources are collectively owned by a classless society and not by individual citizens.
Back
Communist
Card 3
Front
The belief that wealth, and the ability to buy goods and services, leads to happiness.
Back
Card 4
Front
Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power.
Back
Card 5
Front
The belief that a developed society is one where everyone has the right to vote.
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