Organizations
Works to foster global monetary cooperation and secure international financial stability.
What is the International Monetary Fund?
Interconnectedness of economic networks producing worldwide market with actors unconstrained by borders.
What is globalization?
A state reduces its economic role and embraces free market mechanisms.
What is economic liberalization?
Main change of China's economy.
What is agriculture to industry?
Mexico's national oil industry.
What is PEMEX?
Provides loans and grants to the governments of low and middle income countries.
What is the World Bank?
Lessening of government regulations and restrictions on economic activity.
What is liberalization?
Impact on prices following neoliberal economic policies.
What is reduced inflation?
The departure of well-educated individuals from home countries such as Iran and Nigeria.
What is the brain drain?
Company blamed for most of the pollution of the Niger Delta.
What is Shell?
Regulates and facilitates trade among nations.
What is the World Trade Organization?
Economic policy that favors reduction of imports, increasing exports, controls capital movement, centralizes currency to provide more wealth for a country.
What is neomercantilism?
The impact of economic liberalization on environmental living conditions.
What is pollution or urban sprawl.
Primary policy driver behind liberalization policies in Mexico.
What is NAFTA?
Negative economic and political outcomes related to rentier state status.
What is the resource curse?
Supranational organization made up of European countries to provide political and economic union.
What is the EU?
Purchase of an interest in a company that is located in another country.
What is foreign direct investment?
Primary economic rationale for all regime types to adopt liberalization policies.
What is alleviating unemployment?
Primary migration pattern in China.
What is rural to urban or west (interior) to east (coast)?
Primary control of Russia's natural resource companies.
Who is Putin?
Political and economic union of 15 countries in West Africa designed to provide "collective self-sufficiency" for the region.
What is the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)?
Often creates a domestic backlash to foreign investment and trade.
What are cultural influences?
Primary polluting factor attributed to urban sprawl.
What are automobiles (or vehicles using fossil fuels)?
What is elderly (aging population)?
Rapid industrialization has led to the creation of these in China.
What are special economic zones?