Across
- 7. a duty or customs duty, is a tax that is placed on imported goods when they enter a country
- 12. An economy's dependence on a particular resource in order to be successful
- 13. Includes manufacturing activities, which may be referred to as secondary production
- 19. The movement of people from rural areas, usually called towns, to urban areas, which are called cities
- 20. The North American Free Trade Agreement was a trade pact signed in 1992 between the United States and its North American neighbors, Canada and Mexico
- 21. The increasing interdependence of nations and peoples across the globe
- 22. An economic system in which business owners decide what to produce, as well as how to produce and distribute it
- 24. An underdeveloped nation that has little industrial development and therefore a relatively low standard of living
- 25. An economic region of Europe that is united under the euro, a common currency
- 26. The practice of protecting a country’s local business or industry
Down
- 1. Sharing features in an economy
- 2. An economic system in which the government controls the means of production, such as land, labor, and machinery
- 3. The shared characteristics of a group of people
- 4. Includes service industries that offer services to other businesses and consumers
- 5. An index designed by the United Nations to measure the basic contentment of people living in a particular country
- 6. The part of an economy that makes direct use of natural resources
- 8. An economic policy in which a nation does not try to limit imports or exports by enacting tariffs or subsidies
- 9. An intergovernmental organization of the world’s major oil-exporting nations
- 10. In general such a country has significant industrial development and therefore a relatively high standard of living
- 11. The informal name for India's large and popular movie industry
- 14. Policies put in place by a government to restrict trade with one country, with a group of countries, or with specific businesses or individuals
- 15. The search for safety, food, and shelter has resulted in migration, or mass movement,of people from one part of the world to another
- 16. The act of coming to a new country from one’s home country to live permanently
- 17. Refers to people’s quality of life based on the goods and services that are available to them
- 18. The underlying foundation or framework of a system, organization, or location
- 23. The process by which previously colonized countries free themselves from their colonizers