Midterm "Poverty" Flashcards
What are the causes of poverty in the world?
-conflict traps
-natural resources
-landlock/bad neighbors
-disease/mass destruction
-unfair trade policies trap
-official development assistance (ODA) issue
- aspects on history + culture
What are the roots of African poverty?
- Sub-Saharan countries rank among the poorest in the world
- Poverty is due to past exploitive colonial relationships- ships
- With the end of the colonial period came neo-colonialism
- The 70% of Africans who live in rural areas rely on subsistence agriculture;
- depend on the export of primary goods
- Plantation agriculture
T/F for most of history, humans have lacked material wealth.
True
T/F China is following the US’s lead and contributing traditional economic ain to Sub-Saharan Africa for development purposes
False
What country was referred to as a “failed state”
Hati
The term for the type of relationship that exists between rich and poor countries today, one in a rich country controls the terms of economic agreements and one that is to the relationship of the two countries prior to the independence of the poorer country.
Neocolonialism
What is it called when people have gone from no electricity to photovoltaics?
Leapfrogging
What does HIDC stand for?
Highly indebted developing countries
T/F all over the world, the gap between rich and poor within countries has continued to shrink.
False, it has grown
The Sub-Saharan African country that’s known for its high-value primary good that it mines and exports
Botswana Diamonds
What other types of poverty are there?
Social, water, education
T/F it has been determined that the best way to help countries develop is to “trickle down”
False
What is SDG’s #1 goal?
No poverty
When one country on its own gives development assistance directly to another country, what type of aid is it?
Bilateral
What is the #1 reason for hunger?
Poverty
