In this nation, the Industrial Revolution started.
What is Great Britain?
100
According to this production model, goods are produced using assembly line production at central processing plants. Skilled labor was an essential part of this model.
What is Fordist production?
100
This theory of development argues that not all the effects of economic development are positive. Rather, there are social and environmental costs associated with it. Moreover, neo-colonial relationships keep nations at the low of end of development to remain there.
What is dependency theory?
100
One of the consequences of development is greater income inequality in a nation, which can be measured using this variable.
What is the Gini coefficient?
100
Kiva and the Grameen World Bank are part of this small-scale type of investment model.
What is microlending?
200
In Europe, especially, industrial development usually occurred along deposits of this resource.
What is coal?
200
These are three of the four earliest manufacturing belts (pre-1950).
What are East Asia, Western and Central Europe, North America, and the Soviet Union.
200
This a measurement of the total value of all goods and services within a nation's borders.
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
200
This vectored disease is a major problem in many places with a humid equatorial climate. It is passed on through mosquitoes, so eradication of this pest population through the use of pesticides like DDT has helped to overcome this barrier to development.
What is malaria?
200
This type of aid is usually disbursed directly after a major crisis or natural disaster.
What is humanitarian or emergency aid?
300
Location theories take both of these into account in order to predict the spatial pattern of industrial development.
What are variable costs and friction of distance?
300
The advent of new forms of transportation and telecommunications has caused this new production model to exist.
What is post-Fordist production?
300
These are three of the five steps in the Modernization Theory's Ladder Model.
What are traditional, preconditions to takeoff, takeoff, drive to maturity, high mass consumption?
300
This is a frequent environmental consequence of development in places in northern and Saharan Africa.
What is desertification?
300
The fact that countries like Nigeria, the DRC, and Afghanistan have a great deal of mineral wealth, but low levels of widespread economic prosperity is a product of this phenomenon.
What is the resource curse?
400
These are the three variables all firms must consider when determining where to build a processing plant according to Weber's Least Cost Model.
What are agglomeration, transportation, and labor costs?
400
This is most important determinant of the location of industry today.
What are labor costs?
400
These are the three dimensions that make up the UN Human Development Index.
What are education, living standards, and health?
400
When nations take out loans from the IMF, they must agree to certain conditions. This is the name of the conditions that the countries must agree to.
What are structural adjustment programs (SAPs)?
400
These are the two largest multilateral lending institutions in the world.
What are the IMF and World Bank?
500
According to this location theory, the zone of profitability can be found when the distance from the market allows income to exceed cost.
What is Losch's Model?
500
Silicon Valley in northern California and the Research Triangle in North Carolina are examples of these.
What are high-tech corridors or technopoles?
500
He developed the World-Systems Theory to explain how nations use comparative advantage in order to develop.
Who is Immanuel Wallerstein?
500
As nations develop, concentrations or pockets of economic prosperity may concentrate only in certain areas. These areas are known by this name.
What are islands of development?
500
The modern aid movement began in the postwar period during the 1940s. It was at this conference that the western allies began to discuss the purpose of using aid to rebuild Europe.