Vocabulary
Theories
Asia/UN Organizations
100
Trade unrestricted by tariffs
What is free trade
100
Modernization theory, dependency theory, world systems theory
What are the theories of industrial development?
100
WTO
What is the world trade organization
200
Bringing workers rights, safety and environmental awareness to standards enjoyed in industrialized nations.
What is fair trade?
200
The world is an integrated economic system
What is world systems theory
200
EEC
What is the European Economic Community
300
Pakistan, Mozambique, Uganda, Kenya, Honduras and El Salvador.
What are the least developed nations
300
Norway
What is the richest economy
300
NAFTA
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement
400
Japanese innovation where suppliers are required to deliver specified lots of parts to principal manufacturers on a very exact but potentially rapidly changing time schedule.
What is just-in-time-delivery
400
The unequal power relationships between industrialized and less industrialized countries
What is dependency theory
400
Japanese unions dominated by management
What are company Unions
500
Plants on Mexico's northern border that exemplify the contradictory efforts of international investments on the economies of developing nations.
What are Maquiladoras
500
The earliest theory, societies advance from agricultural production to industrial production.
What is the modernization theory
500
Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Tiawan
What are the Four Little Tigers