In 2000, the UN adopted the Millennium Development Goals. What does the UN hope to achieve with this project?
A) To set targets for basic needs globally, with a goal to cut the proportion of the world's population living in extreme poverty by half.
B) To promote infrastructure growth in the world's poorer regions.
C) To fund advances in agriculture for use in the developing world.
D) To provide microloans to small businesses in the developing world in order to spur job growth and overall economic development.
Remittances from nations like the U.S. provide opportunities for family members back home, as well as improving their quality of life, and __________.
A) allowing illegal immigrants to earn citizenship
B) helping stabilize home countries economically
C) increasing the security of the U.S.
D) helping destabilize home countries economically
Women taking part in the Integrated Holistic Approach Urban Development Project have helped to subsidize health and sanitation services in slums by __________.
A) working closely with the government to bring in extra funding
B) working with the government to lower tax rates on firms providing these
services
C) organizing income-producing businesses and using the profits to enhance
these services
D) allowing for greater efficiency in these services by reducing operating costs
With respect to migrants and refugees, __________.
A) migrants flee their country to escape war, natural disaster, or political persecution
B) refugees move to a new country in search of better economic opportunities
C) states are obligated to let migrants leave for another country
D) refugees may be granted asylum, which allows them to stay in the new state
Recurrent epidemics and widespread diarrhea, which kill millions of children each year, are often the result of __________.
A) inadequate food supplies
B) infection with hepatitis
C) river blindness disease
D) inadequate sanitation facilities
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