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Food or waterborne diseases
Food or waterborne diseases are acquired through eating or drinking on the local economy.
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Foreign debt
Financial obligations owed by a country to the rest of the world and repayable in foreign currency.
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Formal region
A “human construct” that is often of considerable size, that has substantial internal unity or homogeneity, and that differs in significant respects from adjoining areas.
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Former Soviet Union
The former term often used to identify as a group the successor nations to the Soviet Union or USSR.
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Former USSR / Eastern Europe
The Former USSR/Eastern Europe (former USSR/EE) is the middle group in the hierarchy of developed countries (DCs), former USSR/Eastern Europe (former USSR/EE), and less developed countries (LDCs).
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Fossil water
Water pumped from underground aquifers.
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Four Dragons
The Four Dragons are the four small Asian less developed countries (LDCs) that have experienced unusually rapid economic growth.
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Four Modernizations
The effort of the Chinese after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 to focus on economic development in agriculture, industry, science and technology, and defense.
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Franc Zone
The Franc Zone (FZ) was established in 1964 to form a monetary union among countries whose currencies were linked to the French franc.
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France
Location: Western Europe Official name: French Republic Formation (date of independence / date current borders were established): 987 / 1919 Capital city: Paris Population: 62.6 million / 295 people per sq mile (114 people per sq km) Total land area: 211,208 square miles (547,030 square km) Language(s) spoken: French (official language), Provençal, German, Breton, Catalan, …
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Free enterprise
An economic system in which private individuals own most of the resources, technology, and businesses can operate them for a profit with little control from the government.
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Front Line States
The Front Line States (FLS) established to achieve black majority rule in South Africa.
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Frontier
The free, open land in the American west was available for settlement.
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Fuelwood crisis
Deforestation in the less developed countries caused by subsistence needs.
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Fundamentalism
The belief that all the teachings of a particular religion must be strictly obeyed.