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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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show The Gross National Income (GNI) of a given country divided by its population.  
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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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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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Neocolonialism   show
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Structuralist Theory   show
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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 country.  
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World Systems Theory   show
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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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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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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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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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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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show Privately funded institutions that aid in development and relief work.  
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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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