Vocab
Measurement
Models
Barriers
Misc
100
Vectored disease spread by mosquitoes
What is malaria
100
measure of the value of what’s produced within a country plus income received from investments outside the country
What is GNI
100
Structuralists believe in the dependency theory - True or False?
What is True
100
vectored disease
Diseases spread from person to person by host (like malaria) are...
100
5
How many stages are in Rostow's Stages of Development?
200
The Gross National Product of a given country divided by its population.
What is per capita GNI
200
# of old & young people in a populations that must be supported by 100 employed people
What is dependency ratio
200
Who created the Modernization model?
What is Walt Rostow
200
poor nutrition, high incidence of disease, and health-care facilities are inadequate, no clean water, & lack of public sewage, high birth and death rates & low life expectancy
Low levels of social development include... (name at least three)
200
Women are more responsible and will use the money to pay for food and neccessities first
Microcredit loans prefer to loan to women rather than men because...?
300
Series of links connecting the many places of production and distribution, resulting in a commodity that is then exchanged on the world market
What is a Commodity chain
300
total value of all goods and services produced within a country’s borders in a year - True or False?
What is false; its GDP
300
Industrilization occurs in which stage? (number and name)
What is Takeoff
300
Two examples of EPZs
What is Mexico's maquiladoras and China's SEZs
300
not developed
If a country has a high percentage of the workforce in agriculture the country is most likely
400
With reference to Wallerstein's world-systems theory, the division of the world into core, periphery, and semi-periphery as a means to explain the interconnection between places in the global economy
What is a Three-tier structure
400
What are the three major measurements of development?
What is economic, technology, social
400
What farming occurs in Stage 1/Traditional?
What is subsistent
400
Four main barriers to development
What is Low levels of social development, Foreign Debt, Political Instability, and Widespread Disease examples of?
400
neo-colonialism
What vocab word means that major world powers control the economies of the poor countries, even though the poor countries are now politically independent
500
Place built up by a government or corporation to attract foreign investment and which has relatively high concentrations of paying jobs and infrastructure.
What is island of development
500
high % in agriculture = not developed
What is Occupation structure of labor force
500
specialization and international trade occurs in High Mass consumption - true or false
What is false; Drive to maturity
500
What was the solution to the malaria crisis?
What is bio-engineered mosquitos
500
Laos; Indonesia; Cairo, Egypt; Nigeria
Give two examples of islands of development