Chapter 8 Globalization and Development and Power and Politics

Geography EXAM 2

Offshore outsourcing

Controlling of business or production functions to foreign companies where labor and other costs are lower

Green revolution

Boosted grain harvests dramatically through the use of new seeds

• fertilizers, mechanized equipment, irrigation, pesticides, and double cropping

microcredit

program based on peer support that makes very small loans available to very low-income entrepreneurs

religious nationalism

association of a country with a particular religion, with intent on excluding of disadvantaging other religions

Taliban

arch conservative islamist movement that gained control of the government of Afghanistan in mid 1990s