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. Manufacturing activities
- 19. The movement of people from rural areas, usually called towns, to urban areas
- 20. 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 and how to produce and distribute
- 24. 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. Business owners and consumers make most of the economic decisions governments may regulate the markets in order to provide stability
- 2. 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
- 3. The transmission of cultural elements, such as customs, ideas, and religions, from one group to another
- 4. Industries that offer services to other businesses and consumers.
- 5. Designed by the United Nations to measure the basic contentment of people living in a particular country
- 6. The part 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. Significant industrial development
- 11. 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 the 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. People’s quality of life based on the goods and services that are available to them.
- 18. The framework that supports a country’s economic activity.
- 23. The process by which previously colonized countries free themselves from their colonizers