AGS Economics Chapter 20
Terms
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- International Monetary Fund
- An agency of the UN that gives money and economic advice to countries when they have economic problems
- Agency
- A group that provides a special service
- The South
- Name given by economists to the poorer countries in the southern hemisphere of the world
- ECOSOC
- Economic and Social Council
- IMF
- International Monetary Fund
- Foreign aid
- Money, medicine, machinery, and food given by developed countries to help LDC's
- UN
- United Nations
- Family planning
- An effort to slow population increases by controlling and spacing the number of births
- United Nations
- An international organization started in 1945 to promote higher standards of living for all people
- LDC
- A country with an economy that is still developing
- Birthrate
- The ratio of births to the total population of an area in one year
- Economic and Social Council
- The part of the UN that promotes economic development
- Cash crop
- Crops such as tea, cotton, and vegetables that are grown and sold for money
- Subsistence farming
- Growing crops mainly for personal use and not for sale
- Slum
- A run-down, urban area often without electricity or indoor plumbing
- World Bank
- An agency of the UN that directs money from developed countries to less developed countries
- The North
- Name given by economists to the richer countries in the northern hemisphere of the world
- Sanitation
- Keeping things clean and removing trash
- Life expectancy
- The average number of years a person will live
- Humanitarian
- A person devoted to helping all human beings no matter where they live