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32 Cards in this Set
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Export processing zones |
Areas that have special regulations that benefit foreign controlled businesses |
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Maquiladoras |
The epz Mexican factories in the north of Mexico |
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Post industrial |
An economy that dosent rely on factories |
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Brownfields |
Factories that have been left behind |
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Rust belts |
The northeast of the great lakes that have a lot of brown fields |
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Corprate parks |
An area with a lot of office buildings |
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Technopoles |
An area with a lot of information based industry and high tech manufacturing |
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Growth poles/ centers |
The economic stimulus that comes with technopoles |
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Spin off benefits |
Are the positive effects plus main outcomes |
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Backwash effects |
The down sides that come with technopoles |
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Commodity chain |
Series of links that connecting many places of production and distribution |
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Gross natinal product |
The total amount of officially recorded goods and services produces by a country/ corporations for a country |
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Devolping |
The progress being made on technology,production, and socio economic welfare |
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Gross domestic product |
The goods and services produced within a country plus income received from investmentsoutside a country |
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Gross natinal income |
the monetary worth of what is produced within a country plus income recieved from investments outside a country |
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Per capita gni |
The standardized versions of gni found by dividing the gni by the citizens |
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Formal economy |
Legal economy the government taxes and monitizes |
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Informal econmoy |
The illegal economy the government dosent track |
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Modernization model |
Showing the 5 stages of modernization |
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Context |
A combination of what is happening at a variety of states concurrently |
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Neo colonalism |
Entrenchment of colonial order such as trade and investment under a new guise |
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Dependency theory |
Political and economic relationship between countries and regions of the world control and limit the economic devolpment possibilities of poor countries |
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Dollarization |
Switching to the dollar |
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World system theory |
Social change in the devolping world is lunked to activites to devolped worlds |
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Three tier system |
Core, semi periphery, perihery |
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Traffiking |
when a family send a child or adult to a labor recruiter for money |
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Structural theory |
Economic disparities built into the system |
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Structural adjustment loans |
Loans given to a country when they make a reform |
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Vectored disease |
Diseases spreaded by a host through an intermediate host |
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Malaria |
Is an infectious disease spread by mosquito saliva where there is a parasite in the saliva |
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Special economic zones |
Area that have less stringent regulations to attract foreign buisness |
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Island of devolpment |
When a country concentrates economic devolpment in a certain city |
