Interconnected World Terms

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Across
  1. 2. People’s quality of life based on the goods and services that are available to them.
  2. 4. The informal name for India's large and popular movie industry.
  3. 5. Country- Often have a high gross domestic product (GDP), which is the total value of goods and services sold during a period of time, usually a year.
  4. 7. Have mixed economies, sharing features of both market and command economies.
  5. 9. The part that makes direct use of natural resources.
  6. 10. The international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens.
  7. 11. Development Index- An index designed by the United Nations to measure the basic contentment of people living in a particular country.
  8. 12. An economic region of Europe that is united under the euro, a common currency.
  9. 14. A person who moves away from his or her place of usual residence, whether within a country or across an international border, temporarily or permanently, and for a variety of reasons.
  10. 16. One that has little industrial development and therefore a relatively low standard of living.
  11. 17. Representing a different type of activity.
  12. 19. The practice of protecting a country’s local business or industry.
  13. 21. The movement of people from rural areas, usually called towns, to urban areas, which are called cities.
  14. 22. The underlying foundation or framework of a system, organization, or location.
  15. 23. The increasing interdependence of nations and peoples across the globe.
  16. 24. An organization enabling the co-operation of leading oil-producing countries, in order to collectively influence the global market and maximize profit.
  17. 25. Refers to an economy's dependence on a particular resource in order to be successful.
  18. 26. Diffusion- Shared characteristics of a group of people.
Down
  1. 1. An economic system in which the government controls the means of production, such as land, labor, and machinery.
  2. 3. The process by which previously colonized countries free themselves from their colonizers.
  3. 6. An economic system in which business owners decide what to produce, as well as how to produce and distribute it.
  4. 8. A tax that is placed on imported goods when they enter a country, usually collected to help domestic industries.
  5. 13. Policies put in place by a government to restrict trade with one country, with a group of countries, or with specific businesses or individuals.
  6. 15. The purpose of the pact was to make trade between the three nations easier by eliminating some tariffs and reducing others.
  7. 18. Includes service industries that offer services to other businesses and consumers.
  8. 20. An economic policy in which a nation does not try to limit imports or exports by enacting tariffs or subsidies.