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AP HG Ch 9 Vocab

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Value Added   The gross value of the product minus the costs of raw materials and energy.  
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Dependency Theory   States that LDCs tend to have a higher dependency ratio, the ratio of the number of people under 15 or over 64 to the number in the labor force.  
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Gender Empowerment Index (GEM)   Compares the ability of women and men to participate in economic and political decision making.  
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Gender-Related Development Index (GDI)   Compares the level of development of women with that of both sexes.  
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP)   The value of the total number of goods and services produced in a country in a given time period (normally one year).  
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Gross National Product (GNP)   Is similar to GDP except that includes income that people earn abroad.  
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Human Development Index (HDI)   Indicator of level of development for each country, constructed by the United Nations, combining income, literacy, education, and life expectancy.  
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Literacy Rate   The percentage of a country's people who can read and write.  
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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.  
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Rostow's "Modernization Model"   Developed the "Stages of Growth" model of economic development.  
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Secondary Sector   The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials.  
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Structural Adjustment Program   Economic policies imposed on LDCs by int agencies to create conditions encouraging international trade,like raising taxes, reducing government spending,controlling inflation,selling publicly owned utilities to private corporations,& charging citizens more  
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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.  
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Value Added   The gross value of the product minus the costs of raw materials and energy.  
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