AP Human Geography Unit 7

IHDI (Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index)

An adjustment to the HDI to account for the dispersement of equality

PPP (Purchasing Power Parity)

An adjustment to the GNI to account for differences in prices

Development

The process of improving lives of people by diffusing information and technology

MDCs

More Developed Countries

LDCs

Less Developed Countries

HDI (Human Development Index)

The measure of life expectency, income, and education

GDI (Gender Development Index)

Measures gender inequality in income, life expectancy, and education

GNI (Gross National Income)

The value of ouput of goods and services including the money that leaves and enters the country

GII (Gender Inequality Index)

Measures reproductive health, empowerment and labor market between genders

Fair Trade

Provides higher equity to workers, standards protect the workers

Industrial Revolution

1700s - Development from hand-made products to machines and factories (Started in Europe)

Patriarchy

Male dominance in a society

Sweatshop

A place that violates two or more labor laws (factories)

Foxconn

Workers had to live on premises, only two 30 minute breaks in a 12 hour work shift, $2 an hour pay. Foxconn produces electronic components for Apple and Intel mostly.

Microfinance

Loans from governments to small buisness owners who are in areas that don’t have infrastructure to give loans to them.

Neoliberalism

Pushing for free trade and free markets, more globalization, ignores racism and inequality already in place (doesn’t help to fix it)

Primary Sector of the Economy

People getting materials from the Earth

Secondary Sector of the Economy

Manufacturing the raw resources from the primary sector

Tertiary Sector of the Economy

Serivce sector, selling products from the secondary sector

Quarterary Sector of the Economy

Technology, manufacturing, innovation

Quinary

Executives, higher ups, government, education

Wallerstein’s Theory

Core countries exploit semi-periphial and peripherary countries, semi-periphial countries exploit peripherary countries.

Rostow’s Economic Model

Stage 1: Agriculture

Stage 2: Investment in new technology

Stage 3: Rapid growth in a few industries

Stage 4: Modern tech is spread, industries experience rapid growth

Stage 5: Economy shifts from production to heavy industry (Steel, energy, motor vehicles)

Weber’s Theory

Modern societys want to be very effiecient and modernize to get things done (ethics are brushed to the side)