What is social welfare, foreign debt, political instability and widespread disease.
100
Where are primary economic activities typically located.
What is Periphery countries.
100
The industrial revolution began in this country.
What is Britian
100
Areas within a region or country where foreign investments, jobs, and infrastructures are concentrated.
What is island of development.
100
The five steps of Rostow's modernization model.
What is What is traditional, preconditions of takeoff, takeoff, drive to maturity, high mass consumption.
200
What are the The three tiers in Wallerstein world systems theory.
What is core, periphery and semi periphery.
200
In 2001 El Salvador underwent this process abandoning the colon, their currency in exchange for US currency.
What is Dollarization.
200
The first railroad in Europe was built in this year.
What is 1825
200
Three innovations that first began the industrial revolution.
What is steam engine, iron smelting, and water pump
200
The measure of the monetary worth of what is produced within a country, plus income generated from investments outside the country.
What is GNI (Gross National Income).
300
Name three costs of economic development.
What is
Industrialization
Export Processing Zones (EPZs), maquiladoras, and special economic zones (SEZs).
Agriculture
desertification
Tourism
300
This disease primary effects children under five and kills 150,000 children in the periphery each month.
What is Malaria.
300
Name three of the criteria for the diffusion of the industrial revolution to mainland Europe (before the railroad).
proximity to coal fields
connection via water to a port
flow of capital
300
Three reasons why the industrial revolution began in Great Britain in the mid to late 1700s.
What is
Flow of capital
Second agricultural revolution
Mercantilism and cottage industries
Resources: coal, iron ore, and water power
300
Costs that change directly with the amounts of production.
What are variable costs.
400
What are three ways of measuring development aside from the GNI, GDP and GNP.
What is
Occupational Structure of the Labor Force
Productivity per Worker
Transportation and Communications
Facilities per Person
Dependency Ratio
400
This part of the economy is illegal, therefore governments do not tax or keep track if it and is not measured in the GNP, GNI, or GDP.
What is the informal economy.
400
If a substantial number of enterprises all develop in, or move to, the same area the factor is called.
What is agglomeration.
400
Establishment of government quotas on imports (e.g. cotton shirts or steel) to the U.S. has led to
a) a decrease in Chinese shirt production.
b) an increase in Chinese wages.
c) a collapse of the U.S. market for shirts.
d) a shifting of production from country to country in the periphery and semi-periphery.
What is
d) a shifting of production from country to country in the periphery and semi-periphery.
400
The continuation of economic dependence even after political independence is referred to as.
What is neocolonialism.
500
Name one example of a NGO.
What is entities that operate independent of state and local governments, typically, NGOs are non-profit organizations. Each NGO has its own focus/set of goals.
500
This supranational organizations is headed by a U.S. citizen, is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and is charged with combating poverty in peripheral countries.
What is the World Bank.
500
Port Gentile, Gabon was built by
What is European oil companies.
500
Weber in his least cost theory takes these three costs into account to help explain where manufacturing plants will locate.
What is Transportation, Labor, Agglomeration.
500
Countries in which tier of the world economy (region) have high birth and death rates and low life expectancy at birth?