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Ch9 Rubenstein APHG
Rubenstein APHG book
Question | Answer |
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Tertiary Sector | The portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people in exchange for payment |
Value added | The gross value of the product minus the costs of raw materials and energy |
Primary sector | The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from Earth's surface, generally through agriculture, although sometimes by mining, fishing, and forestry |
Productivity | The value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it |
Secondary sector | The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials |
Less developed country (LDC) | A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development |
Literacy rate | The percentage of a country's people who can read and write |
More developed country (MDC) | A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development |
Human Development Index (HDI) | Indicator of level of development for each country, constructed by United Nations, combining income, literacy, education, and life expectancy |
Gross domestic product (GDP) | The value of the total output of goods and services produced in a country in a given time period (normally 1 year) |
Gender empowerment measure (GEM) | Compares the ability of women and men to participate in economic and political decision making |
Gender-Related development index (GDI) | Compares the level of development of women with that of both sexes |
Development | A process of improvement in the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology |
Structural adjustment program | Economic policies imposed on less developed countries by international agencies to create conditions encouraging international trade,such as raising taxes,reducing government spending,controlling inflation,selling publicly owned utilities to private corps |