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| Gross National Product (usually per capita) |
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| gender-related development index |
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| gender empowerment measure |
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| income, literacy, education, life expectancy |
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| s. korea, singapore, taiwan, hong kong |
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| no natural resources- produced clothing and electronics at low labor costs & inespensive resale |
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| saudi arabia, oman, bahrain, united arab emirates, kuwait |
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| 1. uneven resource distr. 2. market stagnation. 3. increased dependence on MDC |
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| foreign direct invest - one country invests in another |
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| products made and traded according to guide lines that protect workers and small businesses in LDCs |
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| 15 countries - russia, belarus, kazakhstan, estonia, latvia, ukraine, lithuania, armenia, azerbaijan, moldova, georgia, armenia, uzbekistan, turkmenistan, kyrgyztan, tajikistan |
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| 1. w. europe, 2. anglo-america, 3. japan, 4. s. pacific, 5. e. europe |
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| 1. latin america, 2. e. asia, 3. middle east, 4. s/e asia, 5. s. asia, 6. sub-saharan africa |
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| gender empowerment movement |
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| uruguay, chile, argentina, bahamas |
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| most poor people have small farms |
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| US factories bult near mexican border to take advantage of low wage workers |
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| gender empowerment movement |
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| compares men to women in economic and political decision making |
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| boston, new york city, philadelphia, baltimore, washington |
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| cuba, haiti, dominican republic, jamaica, bahamas |
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| puerto rico, US virgin islands |
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| reproduction of plants by cloning |
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| reproduction of plants by annual planting |
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| farming enough food for family to eat. found in LDCs |
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| MDCs - production of food for sale |
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| 2 regions most involved in farming |
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| clear land by burning/slashing, then using soil for few years until its fallow and then move again |
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| subsistence farming thru herding domestic animals |
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| must work more intensively to survive off of land |
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| leading rice production countries |
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| plow land, plant rice on dry land, move to sawah - water - harvest by hand with knife |
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| large farm specializing in 1or 2 crops |
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| rotate fields that crops grow on, so dont exhaust soil |
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| ring around an area that milk can be provided w/o spoiling |
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| gov sold land that ranchers let the cattle graze on. ranchers tried to drive out farmers. |
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| growing of fruits, veggies, and flowers |
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| commercial gardening of fruit and veggies b/c of long growing season |
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| farmer considers what to farm based on cost of land and cost of transportation. |
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| agricultural practice that perserves and enhances environmental quality |
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| letting soil/earth regrow and regain nutrients |
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| produces opium - myanmar, vietnam,laos, thailand |
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| farmland abandoned for lack of water |
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