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| Official aid that goes from the government of one country to the government of another. |
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| Crops grown to sell rather than to use. |
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| The take-over and exploitation of countries usually be means of superior military force. |
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| Global dominance of American culture such as McDonalds and Disney. |
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| Dependency (world sociology) |
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| The state of being dependent on more powerful countries for investment, trade, aid, debt relief, charity, etc. |
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| Refers to the way in which investment and trading now span the entire world. This hinders individual governments' control of the economy, because companies can simply move to other countries. |
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| The idea that the world has become much smaller as the media allow us all to communicate easily with each other and to share ideas and lifestyles. |
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| The increasing interconnectedness and interdependency of the world. |
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| McDonaldisation (world Sociology) |
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| A term coined by Ritzer to describe the process by which the principles of the fast food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world. |
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| Aid in the form of weapons or troops. |
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| Aid that is given to international agencies (such as the World Bank) to distribute. |
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| Modern forms of exploitation of poorer societies by rich societies which are usually dressed up as beneficial, e.g. aid, world trade and transnational investment. |
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| Non-government organisations |
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| Organisation such as charities like Oxfam which work independently of governments in the developing world. |
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| Satellite or peripheral countries |
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| Term used by Frank to describe the developing world. The terms indicate its dependence on the 'core' nations. |
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| Very poor 'towns' with almost no sanitation, facilities and proper housing that develop outside cities in some developing countries because people are drawn to the city but find there is nowhere to live or that they cannot afford anywhere. |
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| Producing crops in order to subsist or survive only. |
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| Development that is not dependent on using up the world's resources. |
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| Taxes on imports to protect a country's own industries. |
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| Aid that is dependent on the recipient taking a particular course of action, i.e. usually buying products manufactured by the donor country. |
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| Term used to describe fast-growing economies in southeast Asia. |
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| Transnational corporations |
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| Global businesses that produce and market goods and brands across both the developed and developing worlds. |
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| Term used to describe the process whereby capitalist countries have distorted and manipulated the progress of less developed countries to their own advantage. |
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| Set up after World War II by Western governments to make loans to member states at interest rates below those of commercial banks in order to finance development projects. |
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| View that wealth will 'drip' down to the less well-off. |
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| Historically, black resistance to Western attempts to control and exploit black people. |
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| The sociological study of population. |
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