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Charity
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Giving to the needy. Charity organisations do not normally work for profit, but for the benefit of others.
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Compassion
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Loving kindness, helping others with no desire for reward.
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Debt
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Money that is owed or due.
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Emergency aid
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Immediate assistance to help cope with a situation that threatens their existence. The main aim is to stop people from dying.
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Exploitation
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Misuse of power/ money to get others to do things for little or unfair reward.
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Global interdependence
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The idea that countries depend on each other around the world.
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Justice
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Fairness, what is right, correcting what is wrong.
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LEDC
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Less economically developed country. A lot of the population do not have the basic needs.
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Long term aid
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Assistance given to a poor country possibly over a long period of time that has a lasting effect, e.g. education, training, health care programmes.
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Natural disaster
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A natural process, e.g. floods, tsunamis and earthquakes. They can cause destruction of the environment, loss of life and economic loss.
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Poverty
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The condition of being without money, food, shelter and other basic needs of life.
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Stewardship
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Ideas that humans have a duty to look after the world and everyone in it.
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Sustainable development
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Development which will keep going, and not be limited by time, money or environmental issues.
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Unfair trade
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Using various deceptive, fraudulent or unethical methods to obtain business, e.g. false advertising.
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World trade
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The trade between every country of the world.
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