APHG: Rubenstein Ch. 10 Development

Number of women who die giving birth per 100,000 births:

A country that has progressed relatively far along the continuum of development:

The Grameen Bank is known for:

An American company owning an all-inclusive resort in Cancun, Mexico, is an example of:

A country that is in a relatively early stage in the process of economic development:

Intended to create conditions encouraging international trade:

He created a 5 stage model of development in the 1950's to help explain how countries develop.

Type of international trade; promotes worker-run businesses, fair wages, unions & safety

Created by the UN:

A "developed country" is synonymous with:

The part of the economy that provides services:

Investment made by a foreign company in the economy of another country:

Measures development of countries; based upon income, literacy, education, life expectancy

Factories are generally considered to be a part of which sector of the economy?

FDI stands for:

Portion of economy; manufacturing products by processing, changing & assembling raw materials:

True or False: Everyone agrees that GDP is the best way to measure a country's development.

Portion of economy concerned with direct extraction of resources from Earth:

"Affluent" means:

The value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it:

The best example of a relatively developed country is:

Percentage of women holding paid, full-time jobs outside the home:

Number of births per 1,000 women ages 15-19:

The best example of a developed country is:

Examples of this include agriculture, mining, fishing & forestry:

Sector of the economy concerned with processing, transforming & assembling raw materials:

Set of international development goals that all member states in the UN agree to achieve:

Least amount of money a worker can make per hour, according to a country's law:

Development of core regions at the expense of peripheral regions:

Percentage of a country's population who can read and write:

Economic plans imposed upon LDCs by MCDs with the goal of improving the economy of the LCD:

May include raising taxes, lower government spending, privatizing utilities, lowering inflation

The best example of an LDC is:

HDI stands for:

Value of output of goods/services produced in country in a year; includes $ that leaves/enters

Average amount of money each person makes in a country:

LDC is synonymous to:

Adjusts income figures to account for differences among countries in the cost of goods:

How much & how fast workers can produce:

Value of total output of goods/services produced in a country in a given time period (1 year):

Amount of money needed in one country to purchase the same goods & services in another country:

LDCs are:

A measure a composite score of each country's gender inequality:

Process of improvement in material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge & tech

Provision of small loans to individuals & small businesses in developing regions:

The gross value of a product minus the costs of raw materials & energy:

GDP stands for:

MDC stands for:

Any transnational corporation could exemplify: