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- 5. is the informal name for India's large and popular movie industry.
- 6. is the practice of protecting a country’s local business or industry.
- 8. also known as a duty or customs duty, is a tax that is placed on imported goods when they enter a country.
- 9. is 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.
- 12. is an index designed by the United Nations to measure the basic contentment of people living in a particular country.
- 13. includes service industries that offer services to other businesses and consumers.
- 16. Business owners and consumers still make most of the economic decisions.
- 20. includes manufacturing activities, which may be referred to as secondary production.
- 22. is the process by which previously colonized countries free themselves from their colonizers.
- 23. is the underlying foundation or framework of a system, organization, or location.
- 24. ,which is often called a free market, is an economic system in which business owners decide what to produce, as well as and how to produce and distribute it.
- 25. is the movement of people from rural areas, usually called towns, to urban areas, which are called cities. Early towns, particularly those formed during the Neolithic period, were small and close together, and populations were not large.
- 26. the increasing interdependence of nations and people across the globe.
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- 1. are policies put in place by a government to restrict trade with one country, with a group of countries, or with specific businesses or individuals.
- 2. is the transmission of cultural elements, such as customs, ideas, and religions, from one group to another.
- 3. refers to an economy's dependence on a particular resource in order to be successful.
- 4. of an economy is the part that makes direct use of natural resources.
- 7. has been important in world history. 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.
- 10. is the act of coming to a new country from one’s home country to live permanently.
- 11. is one that has little industrial development and therefore a relatively low standard of living.
- 14. is an economic region of Europe that is united under the euro, a common currency.
- 15. is an economic policy in which a nation does not try to limit imports or exports by enacting tariffs or subsidies.
- 17. is an intergovernmental organization of the world’s major oil-exporting nations.
- 18. 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; in other words, they have a high overall income.
- 19. was a trade pact signed in 1992 between the United States and its North American neighbors, Canada and Mexico.
- 21. refers to people’s quality of life based on the goods and services that are available to them.