Glossary
Alleviation - to lessen or reduce (something)
Bowels - deepest or most inner part of something
Colony - a country/area under partial/full control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country
Correlation - a mutual relationship/ connection between two or more things
Destitution - poverty is so extreme that one lacks the means to provide itself
Economy - the prosperity and earnings of a country
Emirs - a title of various rulers (mainly Arab rulers)
Endemic - regularly found in certain areas
Expertise - expert skill or knowledge in a particular field.
Exploitation - the action of making use of and benefiting on resources
Extract - to obtain from a particular source
Favoritism - the giving of unfair preferential treatment to some at the expense of others
Federal government - a system that divides up power between local governments
Gargantuan - enormous
Hinder - to cause difficulty in something
Inclination - a person's natural tendency to act/feel in a particular way
Industry - economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories
Institution - an organisation founded for a purpose
Intervention - take part in a situation to prevent a result in happening
Missionary - a person sent on religious mission
Monetary - relating to money or currency
Oil reserves - the amount of technically and economically recoverable oil
Persecution - receiving ill-treatment, especially because if one's race, political or religious beliefs
Policy - a principle of action proposed by a country
Political will - to the willingness of the government to help the country in whatever ways possible
Poverty - the state of being extremely poor
Poverty trap - a situation in which an increase in income leaves no better off due to a loss in state benefits
Prolific - present in large quantities
Prosperous - successful in material terms
Provision - the providing or supplying of something, especially of food and other necessities
Refine - to purify to a finer state
Relative poverty - is the condition in which people lack in the minimum resources needed in the society they live in
Revenue - state's annual income from which public expenses are met
Stagnant - showing no activity, stay at the same spot.
Stricken - seriously affected by an undesirable condition
Thrive - grow or develop well
Untapped - a resource that is not yet exploited or use
Upstream - at a stage in the process of oil extraction and production before the raw material is ready for refining
Bowels - deepest or most inner part of something
Colony - a country/area under partial/full control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country
Correlation - a mutual relationship/ connection between two or more things
Destitution - poverty is so extreme that one lacks the means to provide itself
Economy - the prosperity and earnings of a country
Emirs - a title of various rulers (mainly Arab rulers)
Endemic - regularly found in certain areas
Expertise - expert skill or knowledge in a particular field.
Exploitation - the action of making use of and benefiting on resources
Extract - to obtain from a particular source
Favoritism - the giving of unfair preferential treatment to some at the expense of others
Federal government - a system that divides up power between local governments
Gargantuan - enormous
Hinder - to cause difficulty in something
Inclination - a person's natural tendency to act/feel in a particular way
Industry - economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories
Institution - an organisation founded for a purpose
Intervention - take part in a situation to prevent a result in happening
Missionary - a person sent on religious mission
Monetary - relating to money or currency
Oil reserves - the amount of technically and economically recoverable oil
Persecution - receiving ill-treatment, especially because if one's race, political or religious beliefs
Policy - a principle of action proposed by a country
Political will - to the willingness of the government to help the country in whatever ways possible
Poverty - the state of being extremely poor
Poverty trap - a situation in which an increase in income leaves no better off due to a loss in state benefits
Prolific - present in large quantities
Prosperous - successful in material terms
Provision - the providing or supplying of something, especially of food and other necessities
Refine - to purify to a finer state
Relative poverty - is the condition in which people lack in the minimum resources needed in the society they live in
Revenue - state's annual income from which public expenses are met
Stagnant - showing no activity, stay at the same spot.
Stricken - seriously affected by an undesirable condition
Thrive - grow or develop well
Untapped - a resource that is not yet exploited or use
Upstream - at a stage in the process of oil extraction and production before the raw material is ready for refining