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AP Human Geography

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show A measurement of a country’s wealth that includes the total value of all goods and services produced by residents of a country, including domestic and foreign production, in a year.  
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show A measurement of a country’s wealth that includes the total value of all goods and services produced within a country in a year.  
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Gross National Income (GNI)   show
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Per Capita GNI   show
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show Economic productivity in agriculture, mining, industry, and services that is counted or taxed by government. Trade is through formal channels, often using credit.  
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Informal economy   show
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show Growing gap in access to Internet and communication technologies between connected and remote places.  
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Dependency ratio   show
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show Agenda agreed to by member countries of the United Nations to improve peoples’ lives across several human conditions, including education, environment, political liberty, poverty, and inequality.  
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show Theory that countries follow the same path along stages of development. Developed by economist Walter Rostow.  
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show The physical and human geographies creating the place, environment, and space in which events occur and people act.  
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Neocolonialism   show
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Structuralist theory   show
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show Andre Gunder Frank’s theory that wealthy countries set up exploitative economic relations whereby lower income countries became dependent on wealthy countries, who in turn benefit economically.  
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Dollarization   show
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show Theory originated by Immanuel Wallerstein and illuminated by his three-tier structure, proposing that social change in and economic wealth in the periphery is inextricably linked to the core.  
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show Division of the world economy into the core, periphery, and semiperiphery according to Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems theory.  
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show Places in the world economy where core processes dominate.  
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Periphery   show
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Semi-periphery   show
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Commodity chain   show
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show A place where goods are transferred from one form of transport to another. For example, in a port, cargoes of ships are unloaded and put on trains, trucks, or riverboats for inland distribution.  
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Structural adjustment loans   show
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show Agreement among international financial institutions that policies opening markets in lower income countries would lead to economic development.  
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show Policies based on the economic theory that government should not intervene in markets.  
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show A form of forced migration in which organized criminal elements move people illegally from one place to another, typically either to work as involuntary laborers or to participate in the commercial sex trade.  
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Maquiladora   show
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Desertification   show
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show Cities in developing regions where foreign investment is concentrated and to which rural migrants are drawn.  
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show Privately funded institutions that aid in development and relief work.  
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Microcredit programs   show
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