Economic Geography
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agglomeration | show 🗑
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show | economic activities that surrounded and support large-scale industries such as shipping and food service
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anthropocentric | show 🗑
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backwash effect | show 🗑
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brick-and-mortar business | show 🗑
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show | a firm that comprised of many smaller firms that serve several different functions
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show | national or global regions where economic power, in terms of wealth, innovation, and advanced technology, is concentrated
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core-periphery model | show 🗑
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Deglomeration | show 🗑
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show | loss of industrial activity in a region
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development | show 🗑
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show | web-based economic activities
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economic backwaters | show 🗑
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export -processing zone | show 🗑
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fast world | show 🗑
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show | system of standardized mass production attributed to Henry Ford
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foreign investment | show 🗑
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show | a measure of the opportunities given to a woman compared to men within a given country
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globalization | show 🗑
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | show 🗑
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Gross National Product (GNP) | show 🗑
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show | measure used by the UN that calculates development not in terms of money of productivity but in terms of human welfare. The HDI evaluates human welfare based on three parameters: life expectancy, education, and income
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industrial revolution | show 🗑
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show | process of industrial development in which countries evolve economically, from producing basic, primary goods to using modern factories for mass-producing goods. At the highest levels of development, nationa
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show | areas that have been specially designed to promote business transaction, and thus have become centers for banking and finance
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show | countries that usually have low levels of economic productivity, low per capita incomes, and generally low standards of living. The world economic periphery includes Africa (except for South American), parts of South America, and Asia
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primary economic activities | show 🗑
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show | a measure of the goods and services produced within a particular country
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Purchasing Power Parity | show 🗑
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quaternary economic activities | show 🗑
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regionalization | show 🗑
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Rostow's stages of development | show 🗑
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rust belt | show 🗑
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secondary economic activity | show 🗑
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semi-periphery | show 🗑
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service-based economies | show 🗑
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show | the developing world that does not experience the benefits of high-speed technology
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spatially fixed costs | show 🗑
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show | an input cost in manufacturing that changes significantly from place to place in its total amount and in its relative share of total costs
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show | goods that are no mass-produced but rather assembled individually orin small quantities
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show | activities that provide the market exchange of goods and that bring together consumers and providers of services such as retail, transportation, government, person, and professional services
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show | a firm that conducts business in at leas two separate countries; also known as multinational corporations
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world cities | show 🗑
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world-systems theory | show 🗑
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