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Fertility |
the incidence of childbearing in a country's population |
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Crude Birth Rate |
the number of live births in a given year for every 1,000 people in a Population |
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Infant Mortality Rate |
the number of deaths among infants under one year of age for every 1,000 live births in a given year. |
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Zero Population Growth |
The level of reproduction that maintains population at a steady state. |
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Demographic Transition Theory |
A thesis linking demographic changes to a societies level of technological development |
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Modernization Theory |
is a model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of technological and cultural differences between societies. |
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World System Theory |
A model of economic development that explains global inequality in terms of the historical exploitation of poor societies by rich ones. |
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Colonialism |
the process by which some nations enrich themselves through political and economic control of other nations. |
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Neocolonialism |
a new form of economic exploitation that involves the operation of multinational corporations rather than direct control by foreign governments. |
