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- Green Washing
- When a company tries to lie about the greenness of thier product
- Neoliberalism
- ⬢ Encourages free trade and open markets, dominant form of government in united states, goal is for economic growth
- Free trade
- No barriers such as tariffs or subsidies, also a compliance tool
- Privatization
- ⬢ Privatization of public services are found in neoliberalist governments , also creating private corporations for the production and operation of specific goods or services
- WTO
- World trade orginization, helps regulate international trade agreements
- IMF
- International Monetary Fund, gives loans to countries, premotes trade, rich countries more powerfull
- World Bank
- Lands money for education, infrastructure, ect..
- NAFTA
- North American Free Trade Agreement, promotes trade throughout north America (MX, CAN, US)
- Underdevelopment
- lack of acess to jobs, healthcare, drinkable water, food, and housing
- Modernity
- An industrialized civilization or society
- Intervention Philosophy
- When outsiders feel obligated to guide native people in specific directions in order to make money
- World System Theory
- A set of mechanisms that redistributes resources from poor countries to rich countries
- Dependency theory
- What way is the best way for rich countries to support poorer countires
- Sustainability
- the ability to maintain infrastructure in a society
- Carrying Capacity
- The maxiumum ammount of people that the environment/ infrastructure
- Eco tourism
- When tourism is focused on the environment
- Displacement
- people loose thier homes when things four tourism are built
- Commoditization
- people are being used for the benefit of the tourists
- US immigration policy
- accept people who are from places that the US doesnt like, allow people who want to embrace democeracy
- Historical Process of Consumption
- In past, people only used to look one or two notches above them, now they look at top 20% of society
- Remittances
- $ sent home to family members for education, healthcare, or home improvements
- Legal Immigration
- Student/Work Visas, Green Cards,
- illegal Immigration
- boarder crossings, expired Visas
- Brain Drain
- when people from conflict areas move out of those areas and into western countries, without smart people in those conflicyt areas it is harder for locals to rebuild a society, hence brain drain
- Critiques of Development
- Environmentally dangerous, displaces people, money is not going back into the local economy
- Bubbles
- Tourists are usually shielded from the reality of poverty in poorer nations