When a person's income is too low for basic human needs to be met
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Millennium Development Goals
Eight specific objectives for the global community created at the UN Millennium Summit in New York in 2000
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Relative Poverty
When a person's income is too low to maintain the average standard of living in a particular society
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Informal Sector
Unofficial forms of employment that are not easily made subject to government regulation or taxation
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Post-accession Migration
The flow of economic migrants after a country has joined the EU
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Diaspora
The dispersion or spread of a group of people from their original homeland
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Crude Birth Rate
The number of live births per 1000 people per year
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Nationalist
A political movement focused on national independence or the abandonment of policies that are viewed by some as a threat to national sovereignty or culture
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Post-colonial Migrants
People who moved to European countries from former colonies
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Net Migration
The overall balance between immigration and emigration
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Natural Resources
Timber, fresh water or a mineral deposit
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Consumer Society
A society in which the buying and selling of goods and services is the most important social and economic activity
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Ecological Footprint
A crude measurement of the area of land or water required to provide a person with the energy, food and resources needed to live
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Water Footprint
A measure of the amount of water used in the production and transport to market of food and commodities
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Carbon Footprint
The amount of carbon dioxide produced by an individual or activity
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Food Miles
The distance food travels from a farm to the consumer
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Transition Town
A settlement where individuals and businesses have adopted "bottom-up" initiatives with the aim of making their community more sustainable and less reliant on global trade
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Ethical Purchase
A financial exchange where the consumer has considered the social and environmental costs of production for food, goods or services purchased
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
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Eight specific objectives for the global community created at the UN Millennium Summit in New York in 2000
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Millennium Development Goals
Card 3
Front
When a person's income is too low to maintain the average standard of living in a particular society
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Card 4
Front
Unofficial forms of employment that are not easily made subject to government regulation or taxation
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Card 5
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The flow of economic migrants after a country has joined the EU
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