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| -using living organisms to produce or change plant or animal products |
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| -farm that makes happy use of machinary in the farming process |
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| -growth of milk based products for the market place |
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| -efforts to preserve natural farmland by forgiving international debts owed by developing countries in exchange for those new countries protecting natural land resourses from human destriction |
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| -planting & harvesting a crop on a field more than once a year |
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| -as feudalism faded away & capitalism grew, this movement divided the common farm-one; the villages moved together into individual farming plots. many farmers did not get private plots moved to the growing cities |
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| - geographer who developed the theory that most substance farmers want leisure time they have, so they farm in both ways that feed their families & to maxamize free time. boserup's theory also positied that farmers will change their approach to farming if the population increases & more food needed, thus making the food supply dependent on human innovation, rather than humans dependent on the food supply |
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| extensive subsistance agriculture |
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| -using a large amount of land to farm for food for the farmer's family to eat |
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| - mass starvation resulting from prolonged undernutrition in a region durring a certain period |
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| - nomadic people who did not remain stationary, but followed herds of wild animals & forage for plants & survival |
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| intensive substance agriculture |
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| - cultivating a small amount of land very efficiently to frodice food for the farmer's family |
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| - practice of mixing many types of needs on the same plot of land |
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| - farm that uses much human labor |
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| Economic geographer developed a model for the location of manufactoring plants |
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| Illegal or unaccounted for economy that govn'ts do not tax & keep track of from garden to black market |
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| industry pertaining of machines |
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| Troposheric polution causes earth to retain more heat & effect wont be felt til the 21st century |
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| causes a countrys long term growth rate by expanding access to global tech & promoting chaos |
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| Teritiary Economic Activities |
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| economic activity accosiated with the provision of services such as transportation, retailing, education & routine office basic jobs |
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| a general term for a model of economic development that treats disporities amoung countries on regional the result of historicaly durrived power relation with the global economy |
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| Loans granted by international financial instructory such as the world trade & the international montery travel countries in the periffery & same in exchange for certain economic governmental economy in the country lux prival;ation of certain gov't entitles & opening the country ti forein trade |
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| Specific area within a country in which tax & economical regulations are implemented to attend forein investment |
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| Secondary Economic Activities |
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| Economic activity involving the processing of raw materials & then transformation its finished industrial products, the manufacturing sector |
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| States that optimum location of a manufacturing firm is explained in terms of cost minimization |
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| Locational Interdependence |
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The response of a plant to its competitors in a given location. Plants may be attracted or repelled by the presence of rival plants and plan their locational strategies with regard to their competitors. Irregular arrangements may be made by two firms to locate so as to split the market between them.
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/locational-interdependence#ixzz2LeeLUj7l
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1) traditional society
2) preconditions to take-off
3) take-off
4) drive to maturity
5) age of high mass consumption |
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| A jumbled collection or mass |
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| A reduction in production cost the results when related firms locate near one another. Firms can be related as competitors in the same industry, by using the same inputs, or through providing output to the same demographic group. The fashion industry, for example, experiences agglomeration economies because they can share specialized inputs (photographers, models) that would be too expensive to employ full time. Retail stores have agglomeration economies when located in shopping malls because they have access to a large group of potential customers with lower advertising cost. Agglomeration economies is given as one of the primary reasons for the emergence of urban areas |
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| Pakistani militant group, first publicised when they claimed credit for the kidnapping of former Pakistani intelligence officers |
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| published by The Economist as an informal way of measuring the purchasing power parity (PPP) between two currencies and provides a test of the extent to which market exchange rates result in goods costing the same in different countries. |
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| refers to the ability of a party to produce a particular good or service at a lower marginal and opportunity cost over another |
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A corporation that is made up of a number of different, seemingly unrelated businesses. In a conglomerate, one company owns a controlling stake in a number of smaller companies, which conduct buisness separately. Each of a conglomerate's subsidiary businesses runs independently of the other business divisions, but the subsidiaries' management reports to senior management at the parent company
Read more: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/conglomerate.asp#ixzz2M8MCxAMt |
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| the process through which something is given monetary value. Commodification occurs when a good idea that previously was not regarded as an object to be bought & sold is turned into something that has a particular price and that could be tradedd in the market economy |
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| a structuralist that offers a critique of the modernization model of development. based on the idea that certain types of political & economic relations (especially colonialism) between countries and regions of the world have created arrangements that both control & limit the extent to which regions can develop |
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| the process of an industrial deconsentration in responce to technological advances &/or increasing costs due to congrestion & competition |
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| with respect to a country, making progress to a technology, production and socioeconomic welfare |
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| zones established by many countries in the perifery & semi-perifery where thye offer favorable tax, regulatory, and trade arrangements to affect forein trade & investment |
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| Ford Production (Fordist) Method |
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| a highly organized & specialized system for organizing industrial production & labor. named after automobile producer Henry Ford, fordist production ft assembly-line production of standardized componets of mass consuption |
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| the expansion of the economic, political, & cultural processes to the point where they become global in scale & impact. the processes of globalization transcend state boundaries that have outcomes that vary across places and scales |
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| Gross Domestic Product (GDP) |
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| the total value of all goods & services produced within a country durring a given year |
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| High-tech Corridor (Technopole) |
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| areas along neer major transportation arteries that are devoted to the research, development, and a scale of high-tech products. these areas develop bc of the networking and synergistic advantages of concentrating high-tech enterprises in close proximity to one another. "silicon valley" is a prime example of a high-tech corridor in the U.S. |
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| the term applied to the social & econimic changes in agriculture, comerence, & manufacturing that resulted from technological innovations & specialization in the late 18th century (Europe) |
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| Locational Interdependence |
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| theory developed by economist Harold Hotelling that suggests competitors, in trying to maximize sales, will seek to constrain each other's teritory as much as possible which therefore lead them to locate adjacent to one another in the middle of their collective customer base |
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| zones in northern mexico with factories supplying manufactured goods to the U.S. market. the low-wage workers in the primaraly forein-owned factories assemble imported components &/or raw materials & then export finished goods |
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| Nongovernmental Organizations (NGO) |
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| international organization thatoperate outside of the formal political area but that are nevertheless influentialin spearheading internatinal on social, economic, & enviromental issues |
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| with refrence to production, to turn over in part or in total to the 3rd party |
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| Primary Economic Activity |
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| economic activity concerned with the direct extraction of natural recources from the enviroment - such as mining, fishing, lumbering, and especially agriculture |
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| Quaternary Economic Activity |
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service sector industries concerned with the collection, processing, & manipulation of the information & capital.
*Examples: finance, administration, insurance, & legal services |
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| a sovereign state that has a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less developed nations |
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| the disparity in development between the EMDW and ELDW. |
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| The wealth and resources of a country or region, esp. in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services. |
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| Tourism in exotic, often threatened, natural environments, esp. to support conservation efforts and observe wildlife. |
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| Trade in which fair prices are paid to producers in developing countries. |
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| Footloose industry is a general term for an industry that can be placed and located at any location without effect from factors such as. |
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| foreign direct investment |
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| investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business). |
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| The trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation. |
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| human development index (HDI) |
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| The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development" and separate. |
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| international trade approach |
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| The economic interaction among different nations involving the exchange of goods and services, that is, exports and imports. |
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| Developing country is a term generally used to describe a nation with a low level of material well-being (not to be confused with third. |
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| liberal development theories |
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| Neither individualism nor the belief that freedom is a primary political good are immutable laws of history. |
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| (Market oriented) A market economy is economy based on the power of division of labor in which the prices of goods and services are. |
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| multinational corporation (MNC) |
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| A multinational corporation (MNC) trans national co-operation.(TNC), also called multinational enterprise (MNE), is a corporation or an. |
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| new industrial country (NIC) |
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A term used by political scientists and economists to describe a country whose level of economic development ranks it somewhere between the developing and first-world classifications.
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A cost that does not vary depending on production or sales levels, such as rent, property tax, insurance, or interest expense.
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| new international division of labor |
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| Spread of different stages of manufacturing to locations in different countries, to exploit differences in factor costs and economies of. |
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| the difference in attitudes or situation between people in the northern and southern parts of a country.In the US, the south is generally more conservative than the north, while in the UK the north isgenerally poorer than the south. |
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| pacific rim economic region |
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| The countries and landmasses surrounding the Pacific Ocean, often considered as a socioeconomic region. |
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| changing something from state to private ownership or control |
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| purchasing power parity (PPP) |
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| Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a theory of long-term equilibrium exchange rates based on relative price levels of two countries. The. |
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| self-sufficiency approach |
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| able to supply one's own or its own needs without external assistance |
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| ikely to change or vary; subject to variation; changeable. |
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| In mathematics, substitution of variables (also called variable substitution or coordinate transformation) refers to the substitution of. |
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| Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. |
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| Sustainable development is a pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs. |
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| resources or advantage acquired or increased |
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Your body weight comprises more than just fat and muscle.
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