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Unit VI Vocabulary
Need to know:
| Rubenstein, Ch 9: Development (14 Terms) |
- Compartive advantage
- Core-periphery model
- Dependency theory
- Economic Sectors
- Gender Inequality Index (GII)
- Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
- Human Development Index (HDI)
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- Import Substitution Industrialization (Self-sufficiency Approach)
- Levels of development (MDCs & LDCs)
- Measures of development (HDI, GDP/GNI, GII)
- Millenium Development Goals
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- New International Division of Labor
- Rostow's “Stages of Growth” model (International Trade Approach)
- World Systems Theory
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Should also know:
| Rubenstein, Ch 9: Development (28 Terms) |
- Asian Tigers
- Autarky
- Calorie consumption
- Cultural convergence
- Debt Trap
- Development
- Energy consumption
- Fair Trade
- Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
- Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM)
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- Gender-Related Development Index (GDI)
- Gross National Product (GNP)
- Less Developed Country (LDC)
- More Developed Country (MDC)
- Neocolonialism
- Newly Industrializing Countries (NIC)
- Physical Quality of Life Index
- Productivity
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- Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
- Structural adjustment program
- Sustainable development
- Tariffs
- Technology gap
- Technology transfer
- Third World
- Transnational Corporation (TNC)
- Value added
- World Trade Organization
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Development Vocab Power Point
Need to know:
| Rubenstein, Ch 11: Industry (10 Terms) |
- Bid-Rent Theory
- Break-of-bulk point
- Deindustrialization
- Industrial location theories
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- Industrial Revolution
- Globalization
- Growth poles
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- Least-Cost Theory (Weber)
- Market dependent industry
- Resource dependent industry
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Should also know:
| Rubenstein, Ch 11: Industry (40 Terms) |
- Agglomeration economies
- Ancillary Industries
- Backward linkage
- Backwash Effect
- Bulk-gaining industry
- Bulk-reducing industry
- Canadian industrial heartland
- Carrier efficiency
- Commodity chain
- Cottage industry
- Cumulative causation
- Deglomeration
- Economic Base (Basic & nonbasic)
- Economic Sectors
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- Economies of scale
- Entrepôt
- EPZs
- Fixed costs
- Footloose industry
- Fordism
- Infrastructure
- Labor-intensive industry
- Major manufacturing regions
- Maquiladora
- Multiplier Effect
- NAFTA
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- Outsourcing (back office & offshoring)
- Post-Fordism
- Postindustrial
- Refrigeration
- Right-to-work laws
- Site factors
- Situation factors
- Spatially Fixed/Variable Costs
- Spread Effect
- Substitution Principle
- Technopole
- Textile Industry
- Time-space compression
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Industry Vocab Power Point
Need to know:
| Rubenstein, Ch 14.1-2: Resource Issues (8 Terms) |
- Acid rain
- Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)
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- Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
- Ecotourism
- Greenhouse effect
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- Ozone depletion
- Potential reserve
- Proven reserve
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Should also know:
| Rubenstein, Ch 14.1-2: Resource Issues (7 Terms) |
- Air pollution
- Animate power
- Biomass fuel
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- Energy resources
- Fossil fuel
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- Inanimate power
- Resource crisis
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You need to be able to:
- describe the variation of the levels of development in terms of:
- the spatial distribution of LDCs and MDCs
- the different indicators used to determine development levels (e.g. HDI or CBR)
- the association with a country or region’s dominant economic sector and development
- explain the various paths and obstacles to development at the global scale in terms of:
- the major theories (e.g. World Systems & Rostow’s Stages of Development)
- historical and contemporary examples (e.g. parts of Asia v. sub-Saharan Africa)
- discuss development at the local scale in terms of:
- the core-periphery model (e.g. cumulative causation and backwash)
- the models of economic localization (e.g. Least-Cost Theory & bid rent)
- women in development
- the role local governments play in promoting development
- describe the historical and contemporary patterns of industrialization in terms of:
- the industrial revolution
- the changing role of energy and technology (e.g. space-time compression)
- deindustrialization of the core and the rise of the new international division of labor
- explain the environmental issues associated with development & industrialism in terms of:
- resource depletion
- pollution
- sustainability
Reading Assignments
- Rubenstein, Ch. 9: Development
- Rubenstein, Ch. 11: Industry
- Rubenstein, Ch. 14.1-2: Resource Issues
- Kuby, Ch. 7: Rags and Riches: the Dimensions of Development
- Kuby, Ch. 6: The Geography of Jobs
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