AP Human Geography Unit 10

A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development.

A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of development.

A process of improvement in the conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology.

A variation of international trade that provides greater equity to workers, small businesses, and consumers, focusing primarily on products exported from developing countries to developed countries.

The percentage of women holding full-time jobs outside the home.

An indicator constructed by the U.N. to measure the gender gap in the level of achievement in terms of income, education, and life expectancy.

An indicator constructed by the U.N. to measure the extent of each country's gender inequality in terms of reproductive health, empowerment, and the labor market.

The value of the total output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, not accounting for money that leaves and enters the country.

The value of the output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, including money that leaves and enters the country.

An indicator constructed by the U.N. to measure the level of development for a country through a combination of income, education, and life expectancy.

A modification of the HDI to account for inequality.

The percentage of a country's people who can read and write.

Provision of small loans and financial services to individuals and small businesses in developing countries.

Eight goals adopted by the U.N. in 2002 to reduce disparities between developed and developing countries by 2015.

The amount of money needed in one country to purchase the same goods and services in another country.

Economic policies imposed on less developed countries by international agencies to create conditions that encourage international trade.

Seventeen goals adopted by the U.N. in 2015 to reduce disparities between developed and developing countries by 2030.

Theory developed by Immanuel Wallerstein that in an increasingly unified world economy developed countries form an inner core area whereas developing countries are found on the periphery and semi-periphery.

Private organizations that pursue activities to relieve suffering, promote the interests of the poor, protect the environment, provide basic social services, or undertake community development that operates outside of the formal political arena, but still is influential.

Place built up by a government or corporation to attract foreign investment and which has relatively high concentrations of paying jobs and infrastructure

Absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level

An approach typical of traditional mass production in which a company controls all phases of a highly complex production process.

Region offering special tax breaks, eased environmental restrictions, and other incentives to attract foreign business and investment.

A disease carried from one host to another by an intermediate host.

The process of economic growth in five stages Traditional Society; Preconditions for Take-Off; Take-Off; Drive to Maturity; and Age of High Mass Consumption.

Economic neocolonialism extracts the human and natural resources of a poor country to flow to the economies of the wealthy countries. A Foreign power indirectly controlling or influencing a territory and its people, usually through financial means cpntinues economic dependence on and exploitation of former colonial countries

The difference in standards of living and wellbeing between the world's richest and poorest countries (between HICs and LICs).

Division of the world between MDCs and LDCs (MDCs in north have relatively high HDIs while southern countries have lower indexes).

\n The core-periphery model describes regions as core, semi-periphery, and periphery areas. It also describes four areas: the industrial core, upward transition, downward transition, and resource frontier. The model can be used from a worldwide scale down to an urban scale to analyze city zones.

National or global regions where economic power, in terms of wealth, innovation, and advanced technology, is concentrated.

Countries that have a very low standard of living and low levels of industrial productivity