Mini Unit 7 Flashcards

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Extraction of raw materials and natural resources from earth’s surface:

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Primary Economic Sector

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Processing and manufacturing raw materials into a finished product:

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Secondary Economic Sector

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Service sector that focuses on moving, selling, and trading products in primary and secondary sectors:

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Tertiary Economic Sector

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Knowledge based sector, focusing on research and information creation and transfer:

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Quaternary Economic Sector

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Highest level of decision making, includes top officials in government and business:

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Quinary Economic Sector

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MDC:

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More Developed Country

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LDC:

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Less Developed Country

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As a county becomes more Developed, the primary sector _________ due to an increase in _________. So, the secondary and tertiary sectors are also going to _______:

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Decreases; Industrialization, Increase

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In less developed countries, the economy is mostly made up of ______ _______ _______

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Primary Economic Activities

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Explains the Spatial relationships between countries and explains uneven economic development:

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Wallerstein’s World System Theory

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What are the Semi-Periphery countries?

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Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa

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There is a world economic system - one large __________ economy:

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Interconnected

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Advantages in production for the core countries:

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Legacy of Colonialism

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How can a country develop when its _______ are _____ by a handful of the prosperous ____ countries?

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Resources, Controlled, Industrialized

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Competition between core countries for _____ and _____ and ____ strength:

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Colonies, Trade, Military

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Economically and politically dominant:

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Core-Periphery Model

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Strong military and allies:

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Core-Periphery Model

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Highly interconnected transportation and communication infastructure:

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Core-Periphery Model

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Control of the global market. Businesses are headquartered here:

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Core-Periphery Model

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Former colonial powers and higher-skill, capital-intensive production:

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Core-Periphery Model

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“Middle Income” countries:

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Semi-Periphery Model

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Aspects of the core and periphery:

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Semi-Periphery Model

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In the process of industrialization:

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Semi-Periphery Model

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Active in manufacturing and exporting goods and raw materials:

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Semi-Periphery Model

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Better transportation and communication than the periphery:
Semi-Periphery Model
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Often have unstable governments:
Periphery Model
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Less wealth, lower levels of education than the core:
Periphery Model
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Export natural resources to core and semi-periphery:
Periphery Model
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Not reliable transportation or communication infrastructure:
Periphery Model
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Former colonies:
Periphery Model
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Low skill, labor intensive jobs, and low wages:
Periphery Model
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Weak laws to protect workers and women:
Periphery Model
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Sells consumer goods and provides $$$ flow to the SP and P:
Core
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Sends cheap labor and natural resources to the SP and C countries:
Periphery
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A specified state of growth or advancement. Variations on different scales - global, regional, and local:
Development
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Total value of officially recorded goods and services by the citizens and corporations within a country's borders in a given year:
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
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Goods + services =
GDP
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Total value of goods and services by the citizens and corporations of a country as well as foreign investments in a given year:
Gross National Product (GNP)
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Domestic and International Goods + Services =
GNP
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Most accurate measure of wealth because it accounts for trade impacts:
Gross National Income (GNI)
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GDP + (Exports-Imports) =
GNI
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Measures how much a common "baskets of goods: cost locally in the currency for each country being compared:
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
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Regulated and/or taxed by the gov. Included in GDP and GNI. Typical professions:
Formal Economy
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Mostly illegal products that are sold and/or not regulated by the gov/:
Informal Economy
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Measures income distribution within a population:
Gini Coefficient
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The higher the value the _____ the inequality:
Higher
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MDCs have _____ Ginis, and LDCs have _____ Ginis:
Lower; Higher
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1. Highest per Capita consumption of energy is in _____ 2. Demand for use of fossil fuels is increasing in ________ ______ 3. ______ energy is increasing in MDCs 4. ______ is higher in DCs
MDCs; developing countries; nuclear; hydroelectric
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Calculation of the average number of children per woman:
Total Fertility Rate
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The number of deaths of infants under 1 year old in a given year per 1,000 live births:
Infant Mortality Rate
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Widely recognized as a general measure of well-being. Measured by available and affordable:
Access to Healthcare
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Average number of years a person is expected to live based on mortality rates when they were born:
Life Expectancy
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% of people 15+ who can read and write short sentences:
Literacy Rates
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Score between 0-1. The lower the score the less developed, and the higher the score the more developed:
Human Development Index (HDI)
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What 4 factors make up the HDI score?
1. Life Expectancy 2. Average Years of Schooling 3. Expected Years of Schooling 4. GNI per capita
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Score between 0-1. The higher the score the higher the inequality:
Gender Inequality Index (GII)
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What are the 5 indicators that make up the GII?
1. Maternal Mortality Ratio 2. Adolescent Fertility Rate 3. Indices of Empowerment 4. Educational Attainment 5. Labor Force Participation
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Rate of women who die during pregnancy or within one year of pregnancy due to complications. For every 100,000 births:
Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR)
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The number of births per 1,000 women aged 15-19:
Adolescent Fertility Rate
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Proportion of women that hold Congressional seats:
Indices of Empowerment
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Do women have access to secondary school?
Educational Attainment
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A way of documenting progress toward gender equality using measures such as relative access to education, average income, and workforce participation:
Gender Parity
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A very small loan to people with little income (Intended to help expand a small business):
Microloans
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In 2000, the UN established Millennium Development Goals specifying targets for all countries to achieve y 2015 in areas such as environmental, sustainability, gender equality, and poverty reduction. They lean toward a holistic approach that considers human well-being and environmental sustainability:
The Purpose of UN's Sustainable Goals
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The 17 SDGs are the principal means used to evaluate and compare countries' development status:
Measuring Development
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An annual review of all 193 UN members states' performance on the SDGs:
Sustainable Development Report
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The final result is a single score for each country ranging from 0-100:
Sustainable Development Report