Unit 7 - Industrial and Economic Development Patterns and Processes Flashcards
Adolescent fertility rate
The number of births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 19.
Demand
The quantity of something that consumers are willing and able to buy.
Developed country( more developed country [MDC] or relatively developed country)
A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development.
Developing country (less developed country [LDC])
A country that is a relatively early stage in the process of economic development.
Development
A process of improvement in the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology.
Fair trade
An alternative to international trade that emphasizes small businesses and worker-owned and democratically run cooperatives and requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permit union organization, and comply with minimum environmental and safety standards.
Female labor force participation rate
The percentage of women holding full-time jobs outside the home.
Gender Inequality Index (GII)
A measure of the extent of each country’s gender inequality.
Gross domestic product (GDP)
The value of the total output of goods and services produced in a country in a given time period (normally one year).
Gross national income (GNI)
The value of the output of goods and services produced in a country for one year, inkling money that leaves and enter the country.
Human Development Index (HDI)
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.
Inequality-adjusted HDI (IHDI)
Modification of the HDI to account for inequality within a country.
Literacy rate
The percentage of a country’s people who can read an write
Maternal mortality ratio
The number of women who die giving birth per 100,000 births.
Microfinance
Provision of small loans and other financial services to individuals and small businesses in developing countries
Millennium Development Goals
Eight international development goals that all members of the Untied Nations have agreed to achieve by 2015
Primary sector
The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from Earth’s surface, generally through agriculture, although sometimes by mining, fishing, and forestry
Productivity
The value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it
Purchasing power parity (PPP)
The amount of money needed in one country to purchase the same good and services in another country; PPP adjusts income figures to account for differences among countries in the cost of goods.
Secondary sector
The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials.
Supply
The quantity of something that producers have available for sale.
Tertiary sector
The portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people, in exchange for payment
Uneven development
Development of core regions at the expense of those on the periphery.
Break-of-bulk point
A location where transfer is possible from one mode of transportation to another.
Bulk-gaining industry
An industry in which the final product weighs more or comprises a greater volume than the inputs.
Bulk-reducing industry
An industry in which the final product weighs less or comprises a lower volume than the inputs.
cottage industry
Manufacturing based in homes rather than in a factory, commonly found before the Industrial Revolution.
Fordist production
Form of mass production in which each worker is assigned one specific task to perform repeatedly.