In many ___________countries, the capital cities by far the largest and most economically influential cities in the state.
What is Peripheral?
100
American factories located on the Northern border of Mexico that provide low waged workers to assemble raw goods.
What is a Maquiladora?
100
In poor countries, this type of stability is hard to maintain.
What is political stability?
100
Caused by humans destroying vegetation and eroding soils through the overuse of lands for livestock grazing or crop production.
What is desertification?
200
He came up with the World Systems theory.
Who is Immanuel Wallerstein?
200
In most states, the _____________ is the political nerve center of the country, its national headquarters and seat of government, the senter of the nation.
What is the Capital City?
200
Specific area within a country in which tax incentives and less stringent environmental regulations are implemented to attract foreign business and investment.
What are special economic zones (SEZs)?
200
When adults and children fleeing poverty or seeking better prospects are manipulated, decieved, and bullied into working in conditions that they would not choose.
What is trafficking?
200
A measure of the total value of the officially recorded goods and services produced by the citizens and corporations of a country in a given year.
What is Gross National Product?
300
Helps explain the interconnections between places in the global economy. Divided into the core, the periphery, and the semi-periphery.
What is the three-tier structure?
300
Governments affect the generation of weath through _________.
What is Agricultural Policies?
300
Zones established by many countries in the periphery and semi-periphery where they offer favorable tax, regulatory, and trade agreements to attract foreign trade and investment.
What are exprort processing zones (EPZs)?
300
In _________ countries, corrupt leaders can stay in power for decades because epople are afraid to rise up against the leaders power or those who have risen up have been killed or harmed by the leaders followers.
What is peripheral?
300
The supranational organization made up of Mexico, The United States, and Canada.
What is NAFTA?
400
Helps us understand the political organization of space and helps us understand the geography of development.
What is the World Systems Theory?
400
The most complex commodities when we try to understand how government policies affect wealth (or the lack of) generated by core production.
What is Agricultural Commodity?
400
NAFTA came into affect on this date.
When is January 1st, 1994?
400
Poor countires with very high birth rates, high death rates, and a reletivly low life expectancy. Most of Africa is in this. A part of the three-tier structure.
What is the periphery?
400
When a governement or corporation builds up and concentrates economic development in a certain city.
What is Island of Development?
500
Maintains that all countries go through five interrealated stages of deveolopment, which cummulate in economic state of self sustained economic growth and high levels of mass consumption.
What is Modernization Model?
500
Where government and __________________ have the most effect, however, it is when the products made outside the US enters the US to be sold.
What is What is International Political Regimes?
500
Regional contrasts in wealth are a reminder that __________ does not accurately represent economic development.
What is per capita GNI?
500
Diseases spread by one host to another by and intermediate host.
What is a vectored disease?
500
Giving loans to poor people, especially women, to encourage development of small businesses.