Definition
A company hires a third-party organization to perform specific tasks or operations that would otherwise be done in their country.
Outsourcing
Total value of all finished goods and services produced within a country's borders.
GDP
The sector in which people practice subsistence agriculture.
Primary
The relation between distance and the amount of communication between two things.
The development of a country's industry.
Industrialization
A theory providing 5 stages of development with the assumption that all countries would follow the same path of growth.
Rostow's Stages of Development
The rating of a country's gender inequality.
GII
The sector in which manufacturing and production begins.
Secondary
Slash and Burn
The decline of a country's industry.
Deindustrialization
A theory explaining the hierarchy of countries, the exploitation between them, and their development.
Wallerstien's World Systems Theory
A way to differentiate between more powerful and less powerful countries, two different acronyms.
MDCs & LDCs
A sector with knowledge-based activities. Highly driven by research development.
Quaternary
This model shows the population of a country separated by age, gender, and amount.
Population Pyramid
The final product has less space than the raw materials and vice versa.
Bulk Gaining/Reducing
A theory explaining the spatial patterns for the smallest cost of raw materials to manufacturing and final product to market.
Weber's Least Cost Theory
Two organizations that enforce trade agreements. One being with 27 European countries, the other being with the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
EU/NAFTA
This sector provides services such as retail, transportation, finance, and entertainment.
Tertiary
The physical characteristics shaped by human activities.
Cultural Landscape
A mass or collection of things, an asembledge
Agglomeration
A theory explaining the relations between cities and towns.
Central Place Theory
A measure of average income, life expectancy, and education in a country.
HDI
High-level decision making happens, top government officials, and CEOs
Quinary
The most common map projection, showing the latitude and longitude and perfect squares.
Mercator Projection