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Chapter 9 Development Vocab Flashcards

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A country that is progressed relatively far along a continuum of development

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More developed country

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A process of improvement in the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology

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Development

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A country that is relatively early stage in the process of economic development

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Less developed country

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An indicator of the level of development for each country, constructed by the United Nations, that is based on income, literacy, education, and life expectancy

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Human development Index

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The value of the output of goods and services produced in a country any year, including money that leaves in enters the country

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Gross national income

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The amount of money needed in one country to produce the same goods and services in another country; PPP address income figures to account for differences among countries in the cost of goods

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Purchasing power parity

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The value of the total output of goods and services produced in a country in a given time

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Gross domestic product

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The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from earth surface, generally through agriculture, although sometimes by mining, fishing, and forestry

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Primary sector

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The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials

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Secondary sector

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The portion of the economy concerned with the transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people, in exchange for payment

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Tertiary sector

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The value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it

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Productivity

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The gross value of a product minus the costs of raw materials and energy

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Value added

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Modification of the HDI to account for inequality within a country

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Inequality adjusted HDI

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The percentage of a countries people who can read and write

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Literacy rate

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A measure of the extent of each country is gender inequality

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Gender inquality index

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The percentage of women holding full-time jobs outside the home

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Female labor force participation rate

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The number woman who died giving birth per 100,000 births

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Maternal mortality rate

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The number of births per 1000 women ages 15 to 19

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Adolescent fertility rate

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The quantity of something that producers have available for sale

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Supply

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The quantity of something that consumers are willing and able to buy

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Demand

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An energy source formed from the residue of plants and animals buried millions of years ago

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Fossil feels

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Resource that has a theoretically unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans

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Renewable energy

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A source of energy that has a finite supply capable of being exhausted

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Non-renewable energy

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Development not requiring outside aid

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Self-sufficiency approach to development

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Development through the use of trading internationally

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International trade approach to development

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A model showing economic growth

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Rostow’s development model

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Hi developed economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan

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Asian dragons or for tigers

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Global organization doing with the rules of trade between nations

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World trade organization

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Investment made by a foreign company in the economy of another country

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Foreign direct investment

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Economic policies imposed on less developed countries by international agencies to create conditions encouraging international trade, such as raising taxes, reducing government spending, controlling inflation, selling publicly owned utilities a private corporations, and charging citizens for more services

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Structural adjustment program

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An alternative to international trade that emphasizes small businesses and worker owned in democratically run cooperatives and requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permit union organization, and comply with minimal environmental and safety standards

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Fair trade

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Provision of small loans and other financial services to individuals and small businesses in developing countries

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Micro finance

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Eight international development goals that all members and of the United nations have agreed to achieve by 2015

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Millennium development goals

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Development of Cora regions at the expense of those on the periphery

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Uneven development

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