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| the amount of time it takes a country's population to increase by 100% (or x2) |
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| a severe shortage of food that results in widespread hunger; often triggered by a weather related natural disaster (drought) |
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| the percentage a country's population changed in one year; (birth rate - death rate) |
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| stabilization of population; (births+immigrants) = (deaths+emigrants) |
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| a law used by governments to slow down their population growth rate |
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| a major hydroelectric dam built in China; helped increase access to renewable electricity and control flooding, but destroyed homes had habitat for millions of people and animals |
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| the large human made lake cause up river from a dam |
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| special economic zone (SEZ) |
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| a geographic area in which capitalist economic methods are used instead of central government planning |
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| a worker that leaves his/her home (often rural) to take a job in a different location (often urban) because wages are higher |
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| the type of life style that one is able to sustain; quality and quantity of food, clothing, shelter, education, medical care, entertainment, etc... |
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| the ability of one country to produce a good/service as a lower cost or more efficiently than another country |
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| using technology to record, process and produce information (computer networks, the internet satellites, cell phones, etc...) |
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| to hire someone/something OUTSIDE of a company to do work that used to be done inside of the company itself |
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| using lines of longitude to help mark time consistently around planet earth; 24 different areas |
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| people educated in their home country that can't find jobs so they move to a new country to get a job |
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| people who return to their country with an education or job skills that they earned while in a different country |
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| private money/investing coming into a country from other countries; the money is used to start new businesses, build infrastructure, or grow existing businesses |
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