Across
- 6. refers to the total amount of money earned by a nation's people and businesses
- 7. the concentration of resources in core nations and in the hands of a wealthy minority
- 9. argues that there is a world economic system that must be understood as as single unit
- 14. the flow of capital away from one country and invests in another
- 15. nations or countries that have the most power in the world economic system
- 16. a measure of poverty wherein individuals do not have what they need to survive (or live on less than $1 a day)
- 17. a measure of income inequality between countries
- 18. a form of slavery in which one person owns another
- 20. argues that a country becomes better by increased technological development and that for economic development to occur countries must change their traditional attitudes, values, and institutions
Down
- 1. a form of control of poor countries by rich countries without direct political or military involvement
- 2. the act of people pledging themselves as servants in exchange for money for passage and are then paid too little to regain their freedom
- 3. a system by which Western nations became wealthy by taking raw materials from colonized societies
- 4. a network of production and labor processes by which a product goes from a raw state to a finished state
- 5. an unregulated economy of labor and goods that operates outside of governance, regulatory systems, or human protections
- 8. a process by which manufacturing declines in a society
- 10. a pattern that occurs when women bear a disproportionate percentage of the burden of poverty
- 11. a measure of poverty wherein individuals have less than the rest of the society in which they live
- 12. poor largely agricultural countries or nations that have important natural resources that are exploited by core nations
- 13. nations or countries that represent a kind of middle class in the world economic system and play a middleman role extracting profits from poor countries and passing them on to core countries
- 19. argues that the poverty of low income countries is the direct result of their political and economic dependence on wealthy countries