High-Income Countries: the nations with the highest overall standards of living. Ziva is from Israel and Israel is considered a high-income country.
Low-Income Countries: nations with a low standard of living in which most people are poor. Mexico is a low-income country that the team is forced to deal with when a military officer is detained within the country for bounty hunting. In another episode, Gibbs spends some time down in Mexico beign held hostage by angry drug dealers.
Global Stratification: patterns of social inequality in the world as a whole. The team witnesses global stratification through their investigations in poverty stricken areas, middle-class neighborhoods, and even during high-class functions.
Middle-Income Countries: Nations with a standard of living about average for the world as a whole. Some areas of the United States could be considered Middle-Income, but it is traditionally a High-Income nation. The NCIS team makes a relatively decent living.
Neocolonialism: A new form of global power relationships that involves not direct political control but economic exploitation by multinational corporations. Drug dealers in Mexico did this exact thing, and Gibbs was in the middle of it.
Multinational Corporation: A large business that operates in many countries. The drug dealers from Mexico dealt drugs in more than just their country.
Low-Income Countries: nations with a low standard of living in which most people are poor. Mexico is a low-income country that the team is forced to deal with when a military officer is detained within the country for bounty hunting. In another episode, Gibbs spends some time down in Mexico beign held hostage by angry drug dealers.
Global Stratification: patterns of social inequality in the world as a whole. The team witnesses global stratification through their investigations in poverty stricken areas, middle-class neighborhoods, and even during high-class functions.
Middle-Income Countries: Nations with a standard of living about average for the world as a whole. Some areas of the United States could be considered Middle-Income, but it is traditionally a High-Income nation. The NCIS team makes a relatively decent living.
Neocolonialism: A new form of global power relationships that involves not direct political control but economic exploitation by multinational corporations. Drug dealers in Mexico did this exact thing, and Gibbs was in the middle of it.
Multinational Corporation: A large business that operates in many countries. The drug dealers from Mexico dealt drugs in more than just their country.