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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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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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show Portion of the economy that is not taxed or regulated by government. Goods and services are exchanged based on barter or cash systems, and earnings are not reported to government.  
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Digital divide   show
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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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Neocolonialism   show
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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. Structures of power  
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Dependency theory   show
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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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show Steps in the production of a good from its design and raw materials to its production, marketing, and distribution.  
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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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Trafficking   show
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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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show Spread of desert like conditions to semiarid lands due to overuse or misuse of land and water resources.  
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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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