Across
- 2. The value of the total output of goods and services produced in a country in a given time period (normally a year).
- 4. Investment made by a foreign company in the economy of another country.
- 7. The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from earth’s surface, generally through agriculture, although sometimes by mining, fishing and forestry.
- 8. The percentage of a country’s people who can read and write.
- 9. Compares the ability of women and men to participate in economic and political decision making.
- 10. A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located.
- 11. states that LDCs tend to have a higher dependency ratio, the ratio of the number of people under 15 or over 64 to the number in the labor force.
- 12. the gross value of the product minus the cost of raw materials and energy.
- 13. A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development.
- 14. Alternative to international trade that emphasizes small businesses and worker-owned and democratically run cooperatives and requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permits union organizing and comply with minimum environmental and safety standards.
- 17. The portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provisions of all goods and services to people, in exchange for payment.
- 18. is the change in culture that occurs as diffusion of ideas and technology increases.
Down
- 1. A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development.
- 2. Compares the level of development of women with that of both sexes.
- 3. the value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it.
- 5. A process of improvement in the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology.
- 6. describes the pattern of distribution of the MDCs and LDCs. When the earth is viewed from the North Pole, the MDCs are clustered near the center of the map while the LDCs are near the edges.
- 15. Indicator of level of development for each country, constructed by the United Nations, combining income, literacy, education, and life expectancy.
- 16. the portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming and assembling raw materials.