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AP Human Geo

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Gross National Product (GNP)   show
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP)   show
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Gross National Income (GNI)   show
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Per capita GNI   show
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Formal economy   show
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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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show Number of people not working age (0-14 and over 65) relative to number of people working age (15 to 64).  
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Sustainable Development Goals   show
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Modernization Model   show
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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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show Economic and financial policies that give higher income countries and organizations control over lower income countries.  
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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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show When one country abandons their local currency and officially adopts the currency of another country.  
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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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show Places where core and periphery processes are both occurring; places that are exploited by the core but in turn exploit the periphery.  
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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, containers are unloaded from ships and put on trains, trucks, or riverboats for inland distribution.  
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show A set of requirements to open markets, privatize industries, and allow foreign direct investment in developing countries in exchange for loans from international financial institutions.  
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Washington Consensus   show
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Neoliberalism   show
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Trafficking   show
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Maquiladora   show
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Desertification   show
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Islands of development   show
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Non-governmental Organizations (NGO)   show
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show Practice of giving small loans to individuals, who operate within a community of other borrowers, to start businesses and cottage enterprises.  
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