Lesson 4 Flashcards
What is core?
Highest economic activity with high profit goods.
What is periphery?
Low economic activity with low wages and raw materials
What is the trickle down/backwash effect?
A positive knock on effect
What is negative externalises?
An external factor with negative effect
What are remittance payments?
A payment that gets sent somewhere else.
What is cultural assimilation?
A minority group or culture comes to resemble a dominant group or assume the values, behaviours, and beliefs of another group
What is segregation?
Setting someone or something apart from others
What is Culturally homogeneous?
An aspect of cultural globalisation
What is over population?
When there are too many people for an area to function properly.
What is under population?
When there are too few people for an area to function properly
What is optimum population?
When an area has the right amount of people for it to function well.
What is the economic theory behind free movement?
Migrant labour becomes focused on core regions.
Views humans as an economic resource that businesses need to make use of.
What is the opposition to the economic theory behind free movement?
Some argue this increases spatial disparities but some others argue that backwash effects are balanced by spread effects (trickle down) through remittances.
Doesn’t take into account negative externalises that backwash and spread movements sometimes generate.
What is core-periphery?
The consensus of a developed core surrounded by an undeveloped periphery
What is the core-periphery model?
Based on the idea that as one region or state expands in economic prosperity
