Development
A process of improvement in the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology
development
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
Gross domestic product
a change in global or regional climate patterns
climate change
The percentage of a country's people who can read and write
Literacy rate
An economic system based on private property and free enterprise.
Capatalism
A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development
developing country
The value of the output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, including money that leaves and enters a country
Gross National Income
Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment
conservation
The number of births per 1,000 women ages 15-19
adolescent fertility rate
A system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production.
socialism
A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development
Developed country
The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from Earth's surface, generally through agriculture, although sometimes by mining, fishing, and forestry
Primary sector
The use of Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future.
sustainability
The number of women who die giving birth per 100,000 births
Maternal mortality rate
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
communism
Indicator of level of development for each country, constructed by United Nations, combining income, literacy, education, and life expectancy
Human Development Index
The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials
secondary sector
the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.
Global warming
a health care system in which all citizens receive medical services paid for by tax revenues
universal healthcare
Alternative to international trade that emphasizes small businesses and worker-owned and democratically run cooperatives and requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permit union organizing, and comply with minimum environmental and safety standards
fair trade
Indicator constructed by the United Nations to measure the extent of each country's gender inequality
Gender Inequality Index
The portion of the economy is concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people in exchange for payment.
tertiary sector
what are three renewable resources
water, wind, solar
the tendency for products marketed specifically toward women to be more expensive than those marketed for men
the pink tax
An economy where the law of supply and demand, rather than a central government, regulates production, labor, and the marketplace.
free-market capitalism