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AP Hum Geo Ch10

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show Series of links connecting the many places of production and distribution and resulting in a commodity that is then exchanged on the world market.  
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show With respect to a country, making progress in technology, production, and socioeconomic welfare.  
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gross national product (GNP)   show
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gross domestic product (GDP)   show
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show Calculates the monetary worth of what is produced within a country plus income received from investments outside the country, as a more accurate way of measuring a country’s wealth in the context of a global economy.  
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show The gross national product (GNP) of a given country divided by its population.  
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show The legal economy that is taxed and monitored by a government and is included in a government’s gross national product (GNP); as opposed to an informal economy.  
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informal economy   show
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modernization model   show
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context   show
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neo-colonialism   show
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structuralist theory   show
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show A structuralist theory that offers a critique of the modernization model of development. Based on the idea that certain types of political and economic relations (especially colonialism) between countries and regions of the world have created arrangements  
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show When a poorer country ties the value of its currency to that of a wealthier country, or when it abandons its currency and adopts the wealthier country’s currency as its own.  
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show Theory originated by Immanuel Wallerstein and illuminated by his three-tier structure, proposing that social change in the developing world is inextricably linked to the economic activities of the developed world.  
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three-tier structure   show
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show 1 Eradicate extreme poverty 2 Achieve universal education 3 Promote gender equality 4 Reduce child mortality 5 Improve maternal health 6 Combat AIDS and other diseases 7 Ensure environmental sustainability 8 Develop a global partnership for develop  
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show When a family sends a child or an adult to a labor recruiter in hopes that the labor recruiter will send money, and the family member will earn money to send home.  
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structural adjustment loans   show
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show Neoliberalism derives from the neo-classical economic idea that government intervention into markets is inefficient and undesirable, and should be resisted wherever possible.  
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vectored diseases   show
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malaria   show
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export processing zones (EPZs)   show
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show The term given to zones in northern Mexico with factories supplying manufactured goods to the U.S. market. The low-wage workers in the primarily foreign-owned factories assemble imported components and/or raw materials and then export finished goods.  
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special economic zones (SEZ)   show
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North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)   show
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desertification   show
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island of development   show
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show International organizations that operate outside of the formal political arena but that are nevertheless influential in spearheading international initiatives on social, economic, and environmental issues.  
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show Program that provides small loans to poor people, especially women, to encourage development of small business.  
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