Interconnected World Terms

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Across
  1. 2. where business owners and consumers still make most of the economic decisions.
  2. 5. the informal name for India's large and popular movie industry
  3. 7. the third sector that includes service industries that offer services to other businesses and consumers.
  4. 8. the transmission of ideas, customs, beliefs, and other cultural elements from one group to another.
  5. 13. an economic system in which the central government plans what to produce and at what price, how to distribute it, and who may buy it.
  6. 14. the act of coming to a new country from one’s home country to live permanently.
  7. 15. mass movement, of people from one part of the world to another.
  8. 18. economic system in which business owners decide what to produce, as well as and how to produce and distribute it.
  9. 20. a country has significant industrial development and therefore a relatively high standard of living.
  10. 22. the underlying foundation or framework of a system, organization, or location.
  11. 23. an economic policy in which a nation does not try to limit imports or exports by enacting tariffs or subsidies.
  12. 24. refers to an economy's dependence on a particular resource in order to be successful.
  13. 25. refers to people’s quality of life based on the goods and services that are available to them.
  14. 26. an economic region of Europe that is united under the euro, a common currency.
Down
  1. 1. The increasing interdependence of nations and peoples across the globe
  2. 3. a country that has little industrial development and therefore a relatively low standard of living.
  3. 4. the process by which previously colonized countries free themselves from their colonizers.
  4. 6. the practice of protecting a country’s local business or industry.
  5. 9. the movement of people from rural areas, usually called towns, to urban areas, which are called cities.
  6. 10. the part of the economy that makes direct use of natural resources
  7. 11. an intergovernmental organization of the world’s major oil-exporting nations.
  8. 12. a trade pact signed in 1992 between the United States and its North American neighbors, Canada and Mexico. The purpose of the pact was to make trade between the three nations easier by eliminating some tariffs and reducing others.
  9. 16. an index designed by the United Nations to measure the basic contentment of people living in a particular country.
  10. 17. includes manufacturing activities, which may be referred to as secondary production
  11. 19. policies put in place by a government to restrict trade with one country, with a group of countries, or with specific businesses or individuals. Sanctions can be imposed by a single country or by international groups
  12. 21. a tax that is placed on imported goods when they enter a country.