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AP Human Geography

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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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show The Gross National Income (GNI) of a given country divided by its population.  
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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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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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Modernization Model   show
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Context   show
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show Conscious effort to define a sense of place for local or regional culture. Often used by local businesses, such as microbreweries, to identify local products with local or regional culture.  
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show Theories based on the idea that difficult-to-change, large-scale economic arrangements shape what is possible for a country.  
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Dependency Theory   show
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show When one country abandons their local currency and officially adopts the currency of another 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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Three Tier Structure   show
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show Places in the world economy where core processes dominate.  
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show Places in the world economy where periphery processes dominate.  
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Semi-Periphery   show
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Commodity Chain   show
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Break-of-Bulk Point   show
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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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show Agreement among international financial institutions that policies opening markets in lower income countries would lead to economic development.  
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Neoliberalism   show
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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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show Foreign-owned factories in Mexico where low-wage workers assemble imported components and raw materials into finished products for export.  
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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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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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