Glossary:
K)Collective Security: The conditions of protecting all members of a group or collective from danger. The UN tries to ensure the collective security of all member states.
L)Gross national income: The total value of the goods and the services produced by a country in a year, whether inside or outside the country's border.
M)Tied aid:Help that is given with strings attached. These strings may include agreements that the country receiving the aid will buy goods and services only from the country or organization supplying the aid.
N)Global village:The world, esp. considered as the home of all nations and peoples living interdependently.
O)Voluntary balkanization:The separation of like minded people into isolated groups that are hustle to people who's values differ from their own. This separation my result in a loss of shared experiences and values and can harm the structure of democratic societies.
P)Responsibility to protect:A doctrine that says the UN must protect people within a state when that state violates or fails to uphold the rights and welfare of its own citizens.
Q)Common human heritage:The cultural inheritance from the past that all people share and that is preserved in world heritage sites, traditional skills and knowledge, and the arts.
R)Trickle-down effect:The theory that when people in developed countries have more money to spend, they will buy goods and services offered by businesses in less developed countries and that this spending will eventually help strengthen economies in the developing world.
S)Absolute poverty:A condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education, and information. Absolute poverty may depend not only on income but also on access to services.
T)Odious debt: A debt that is incurred by a despotic power, not to meet the needs of the people of the country but to strengthen the despotic regime.