CH 5&6 VOCAB
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- malnutrition
- a state resulting from a diet lacking the nutrients vital to good health
- near homeless
- people with no savings or resources to carry them over during times of financial crisis
- migrant worker
- a person who moves regularly in order to find work
- theologians
- scholars of religion
- cash crops
- crops grown to be exported in order to raise money
- refugee
- one who flees to another country or power to escape danger or persecution
- physical quality of life index
- table determined by a combination of average length of life, average rate of death for babies, and the number of people who can read
- undernourishment
- amount of food is less than what can sustain life
- food crops
- crops grown to feed the people within a country
- oligarchy
- a country ruled by a few members of an elite group clearly distinct from the vast majority of the population
- Gross National Product
- a measure of the overall wealth of a country
- economic migrants
- people who come to a country seeking a better life for themselves and their families
- triage
- the practice of placing people into one of three groups based on their likelihood of survival and treating first the two groups most likely to survive
- liberation theology
- belief that the gospel message addresses today's social concerns, especially those of people who are poor
- energy-intensive
- large-scale farming that depends more on heavy machinery, chemical fertilizers, irrigation systems, and pesticides that on people
- income levels
- comparative amount of money earned annually by individuals or families
- welfare-to-work programs
- government assistance programs that provide aid while individuals are trying to learn a new trade or seek employment
- single-export economies
- budgets based on one product as te main source of income
- chronic malnutrition
- constant illness caused by lack of proper amounts of vitamins and nutrients
- labor-intensive
- small-scale farming that depends more on workers than on machines to do the farm work