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WS Unit 6
Globalizataion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Raw materials | A material or substance used in the primary production or manufacturing of a good. |
| Emerging market | Nations with social or business activity in the process of rapid growth and industrialization. |
| Economic growth | Steady growth in the productive capacity of the economy (and so a growth of national income). |
| Technology | The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, esp. in industry |
| "computer technology" | "recycling technologies". |
| Trade | The business of buying and selling commodities |
| Imports / exports | to bring in (buy) goods from another country/to send (sell) out goods to another country. |
| Balance of trade | the difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of merchandise. |
| Trend | A general direction in which something is developing or changing. |
| G8 | The countries of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Representatives from these countries meet to discuss economic concerns. |
| World Trade Organization (WTO) | The only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. |