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Government and Quality of Life
How can our governments improve quality of life for their citizens?
Corruption
- Corruption: dishonest or illegal actions taken by people in positions of power.
- Increasing personal wealth
- Nepotism: giving friends/family jobs in position of power.
- Missappropriation of tax funds!
- Possible everywhere in the world, but some areas seem to be better at combating corruption than others.
- Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Transparency International
- How to avoid corruption?
- Expose it!
- Ensure there are people in government (auditor general) who are responsible to the people, not the president/prime minister.
- Prosecute those who participate in corruption.
- Corruption Map
Map of Corruption
Colonialism: It's a Thing
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- Most countries are independent today.
- Not always the case.
- Modern morals were not (obviously) the norm.
- Some nations behaved incredibly bad in the past.
- Great Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Russia, China, Mongolia, Ottoman Turks, Seljuk Turks, Roman Empire, Egyptian Empire, Hittites, Aztec, Mayan, Assyrian Empire, etc. etc. etc.
Colonial Powers Map
Colonial Powers Map
Foreign Debt?
How does foreign debt affect quality of life?
What is Foreign Debt
- Foreign Debt: Money owed to individuals, corporations, and foreign countries.
- When you spend more than you take in, you have to borrow.
- Where have we heard this before?
- What are some solutions?
- SIMPLE!!!!
- Reduce spending
- Raise Income
- Increase GDP
- Restructure Debt?
- Default
Foreign Debt Explained
Chi-Merica
- Trade deficit with China is HUGE
- China keeps buying up large amounts of American debt.
- If China called all these loans in....
- America becomes immediately bankrupt.
- Dubbed Chi-Merica
- I.E. China and America are so interconnected, they are becoming like a hybrid creature.
Case Study
How are We Improving Quality of Life
- Social Justice: Equal justice, opportunities, and rights for all.
- Equality of opportunity or outcome?
- Equity: "fairness;" ensuring that people have what they need to achieve and maintain health and well-being.
- Forms of Help
- Development Aid: Money or other long term assistance to help a country develop.
- Technology, knowledge, etc.
- Humanitarian Aid: money/assistance to alleviate human suffering.
- UN, etc.
- Usually for war, drought, famine, etc.
- Donor/Recipient and Direct/Indirect
- NGOs
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