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Development Flashcards

1
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What is development

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Progress is being made in technology production and socio economic welfare

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What’s GDP stand for

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Gross domestic product

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3
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Total value of goods/services produced within a country

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GDP

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What does GNP stand for

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Gross national product

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Total value of goods and services produced in a country PLUS the goods and services produced by citizens / corporation of the country abroad

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GNP

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What does GNI stand for

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Gross national income

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7
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Both GDP and GNP PLUS income from citizens investments abroad

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GNI

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What’s wrong with GDP, GNP, GNI?

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  • per capita
  • implies even distribution of wealth
  • doesn’t include informal economy
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What’s the informal economy

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Cooking, laundry, services w value that the govt doesn’t monitor or regulate

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3 factors of the Human development index

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  1. GNI
  2. Education (avg years of expected schooling over expected years of schooling
  3. Infant mortality/ life expectancy
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UN disaggregated HDI by:

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Gender
Race
Age
Region
Income/wealth
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12
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Rostow’s model of modernization aka ____________

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Ladder of development

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13
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What are the 5 parts of rostows model

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Traditional- substinence farming

Preconditions for take off- progressive leadership(open to change, flexible not corrupt)

Take off- industrialization occurs

Drive to maturity- specialization which leads to international trade

High mass consumption- hmc and core processing

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Wallersteins world systems theory

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  1. World economy has one capitalist market and global division of labor
  2. All states must participate in the global market
  3. Market divided in 3 tiers- core periphery and semi periphery
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Barriers to development

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  1. Political instability
  2. Diseases
  3. Foreign debt
  4. Low levels of economic welfare
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Industrial costs of development

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Urbanization

Export processing costs

17
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Agricultural costs of development

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Desertification
S saharan africa
Deforestation
Social cosrs- LDCs

18
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Tourism costs of development

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LDC Jobs
Cultural appropriation
Tax dollars go to infrastructure for resorts

19
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Islands of development

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Either corporate created or government created

20
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Examples of corporate created islands of development

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Walmart
Microsoft
Mayo clinic

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Government created islands of development

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Creating a new capital city(brazilia)

Southern states- lower taxes, lower wages, fewer regulations

22
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4 factors that influence industrial location

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  1. Site - terrain climate resources
  2. Situation- accessibility
  3. Variable costs- energy labor transportation
  4. Friction of distance- distance decay model
23
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Alfred Weber’s least cost theory of industrial location

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  1. Transportation
  2. Labor costs
  3. Agglomeration
24
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5 major means of transportation

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Ships(cheapest)
Planes(most expensive)
Trains
Trucks(most used)
Pipelines
25
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What is agglomeration

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When industries that need similar resources in the commodity chain locate near the supplies of that element

26
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Harold hotelling locational interdependence

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Similar business will closer together to constrain competitors market distance doesn’t matter jn customer choice- product preferences does

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Christallers central place theory

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Location of varying city sizes

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Threshold

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Number of customers needee to support your industry

29
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Range

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Distance customers will travel for your product

30
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Fordist production

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Assembly line
Mass production
Where a product is assembled from start to finish in one location

31
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Post fordist production

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Defined by production in multiple locations with a global division of labor

32
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What makes post fordist production possible

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  1. Time space compression
  2. Global trade agreements
  3. Govt actions
  4. Energy costs
33
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Industrial regions pre 1950

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S britain
Benelux
Belgium
Netherlands
Germany 
Poland
E ukraine 
Rustbelt(boston to Baltimore Minneapolis and st louis)

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