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Rostow
Wallerstein
Vocab
Misc 1
Misc 2
100
In this stage, the dominant activity is subsistance farming
What is Traditional?
100
Marked by high salary, high education and high technology
What is the core?
100
A mexican factory that produces a final product only
What are Maquiladoras?
100
What is not calculated into GNP
What is informal economy?
100
Malaria most commonly affects these people
What are children under 5?
200
Experiences something like an industrial revolution
What is takeoff?
200
The middle in technology, income, and education
What is semi-periphery?
200
The process that makes a finished product. Includes the lumberjack, lumber mill worker, furnature maker and consumer.
What is commodity chain?
200
This happened in Thailand in 2004
What is a tsunami?
200
Modern ideas about development are most closely associated with this
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
Movement toward greater flexibility by the government
What are preconditions to takeoff?
300
Marked by low income, low education and low technology.
What is periphery?
300
Things like roads, dams, schools, power grids
What is infrastructure?
300
This keeps countries in africa from being able to develop
What is political corruption?
300
The loss of agriculturally productive land due to erosian and destruction of vegitation
What is desertification?
400
Marked by high incomes and widespread production of goods and services.
What is high mass consumption?
400
Australia is an example of this stage
What is core?
400
An organization that 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?
400
The biggest example of informal economy
What is illegal drug traffiking?
400
The agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico that allows for barrier free trade.
What is NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)?
500
This stage has expanding trade, diffusion of technology and industrial specialization occurs?
What is the drive to maturity?
500
China is in this stage.
What is semi-periphery?
500
Organizations that are not run by any governments
What are non-governmental organizations (NGO)?
500
What does development imply?
What is technology?
500
The process that countries go through when the abandon their currency and adopt the dollar.
What is dollarization?