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Chapter 8 and 9

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show A country that is not fully democratic or autocratic, but rather displays a mix of both types.  
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Autocracy   show
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show A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries.  
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show A sovereign stat comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside.  
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Colonialism   show
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Colony   show
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Democracy   show
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Federal state   show
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show A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control.  
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show The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.  
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show A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea.  
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Nation-state   show
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show The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.  
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Sovereignty   show
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show An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials.  
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Active solar energy system   show
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show The number of births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 19.  
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Biomass fuel   show
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show A nuclear power plant that creates it own fuel from plutonium.  
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Demand   show
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show A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development.  
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Developing country(less developed country [LDC])   show
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Development   show
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show An alternative to international trade that emphasizes small businesses & worker-owned & democratically run cooperatives & requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permit union organization, & comply with minimum environmental & safety standards.  
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Female labor-force participation   show
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show The splitting of an atomic nucleus to release energy.  
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show Investment made by a foreign company in the economy of another country.  
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show The pumping of water at high pressure to break apart rocks in order to release natural gas.  
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show A measure of the extent of each country's gender inequality.  
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Gross domestic product(GDP)   show
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show The value of the output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, including money that leaves and enters the country.  
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Human Development Index (HDI)   show
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show Power generated from moving water. Like dams.  
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show Modification of the HDI to account for the inequality within a country.  
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Maternal mortality rate   show
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show Provision of small loans and other financial services to individuals and small businesses in developing countries.  
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Millennium Development Goals   show
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Passive solar energy systems   show
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show A solar energy cell, usually made from silicon, that collects solar rays to generate electricity.  
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show The amount of a resource in deposits not yet identified but thought to exist.  
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show The value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it.  
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show The amount of a resource remaining in discovered deposits.  
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Purchasing power parity (PPP)   show
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Primary sector   show
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Radioactive waste   show
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Secondary sector   show
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show Economic policies imposed on LDCs by international agencies to create conditions encouraging international trade, such as raising taxes, reducing government spending, controlling inflation, selling publicly owned utilities to private corporations, etc....  
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Tertiary sector   show
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show Development of core regions at the expense of those on the periphery.  
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Value added   show
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