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| 6161687641 | Adolescent Fertility Rate | The number of births to women aged 15-19 years old per 1,000 women in the same age group. | 0 | |
| 6161687642 | Developed Country (more developed country [MDC] or relatively developed country) | A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development. | 1 | |
| 6161687643 | Developing Country (less developed country [LDC]) | A country that is t a relatively early stage in the process of economic development. | 2 | |
| 6161687644 | Development | A process of improvement in the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology. | 3 | |
| 6161687645 | Fair trade | Alternative to international trade that emphasizes small businesses and worker owned and democratically run cooperatives and requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permit union organizing, and comply with minimum environmental and safety standards. | 4 | |
| 6161687646 | Female labor force participation rate | The percentage of women holding full-time jobs outside of home. | 5 | |
| 6161687647 | Foreign direct investment (FDI) | Investment made by a foreign company in the economy of another country. | 6 | |
| 6161687648 | Gender Inequality Index (GII) | A measure of the extent of each country's gender inequality. | 7 | |
| 6161687649 | Gross domestic product (GDP) | The sum total of the value of all the goods and services produced in a nation Value of total output of goods and services in a country in a given time period. | 8 | |
| 6161687650 | Gross national income (GNI) | The value of the output of goods and services in a country in a year, including money that enters and leaves a country. | 9 | |
| 6161687651 | Housing bubble | A rapid increase in the value of houses followed by a sharp decline in their value. | 10 | |
| 6161687652 | Human development index (HDI) | Indicator of level of development for each country, constructed by United Nations, combining income, literacy, education, and life expectancy | 11 | |
| 6161687653 | Inequality-adjusted HDI (IHDI) | Modification of the HDI to account for inequality within a country. | 12 | |
| 6161687654 | Literacy Rate | The percentage of a country's people who can read and write. | 13 | |
| 6161687655 | Maternal mortality ratio | Number of deaths per thousand of women giving birth. | 14 | |
| 6161687656 | Microfinance | Provision of small loans and other financial services to individuals and small businesses in developing countries. | 15 | |
| 6161687657 | Millennium development goals | Eight international development goals that 192 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. They include reducing extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates, fighting disease epidemics such as AIDS, and developing a global partnership for development. | 16 | |
| 6161687658 | Primary sector | 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. | 17 | |
| 6161687659 | Productivity | The value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it. | 18 | |
| 6161687660 | Purchasing power parity (PPP) | The amount of money needed in one country to purchase the same goods and services in another country;adjusts income figures to account for differences among countries in the cost of goods. | 19 | |
| 6161687661 | Secondary sector | The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials. | 20 | |
| 6161687662 | Structural adjustment program | Economic policies imposed on less developed countries by international agencies to create conditions encouraging international trade, such as raising taxes, reducing government spending, controlling inflation, selling publicly owned utilities to private corporations, and charging citizens more for services. | 21 | |
| 6161687663 | Tertiary sector | The portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people in exchange for payment. | 22 | |
| 6161687664 | Uneven development | Development of core regions at the expense of those on the periphery. | 23 | |
| 6161687665 | Value added | The gross value of the product minus the costs of raw materials and energy. | 24 | |
| 6161687666 | decent standard of living, long healthy life, access to knowledge | What are the 3 factors being measured in HDI? | 25 | |
| 6161687667 | 1, 0 | What is the highest score you can get on HDI? lowest? | 26 | |
| 6161687668 | access to technology | Why are workers in MDCs more productive? | 27 | |
| 6161687669 | GNI per capita at purchasing power parity | How is Standard of Living measured? | 28 | |
| 6161687670 | Life expectancy at birth | What is the main HDI health factor? | 29 | |
| 6161687671 | Mean years of schooling, expected years of schooling | How is quantity of knowledge measured? | 30 | |
| 6161687672 | Pupil to teacher ratio, and Literacy Rate | How is quality of knowledge measured? | 31 | |
| 6161687673 | 0 | What score of GII would mean perfect equality? | 32 | |
| 6161687674 | Empowerment, Labor Force, and reproductive health | What are the three components of measuring GII? | 33 | |
| 6161687675 | % of seats held by women in legislature, % of women that have completed High school | What are the two indicators of Empowerment? | 34 | |
| 6161687676 | maternal mortality ratio, adolescent fertility rate | What are the 2 indicators of reproductive health? | 35 | |
| 6161687677 | Sub Saharan Africa | Where is the highest Female labor Force participation rate? | 36 | |
| 6161687678 | Coal, Petroleum, Natural Gas | What are the 3 substances that provide 5/6 of the World's energy? | 37 | |
| 6161687679 | OPEC | Who sets the prices for Oil? | 38 | |
| 6161687680 | inefficiency and creation of a large bureaucracy(corruption) | What are the two downfalls to the self sufficiency model? | 39 | |
| 6161687681 | Traditional Society, Preconditions to takeoff, takeoff, Drive to Maturity, Mass Consumption | What are the 5 stages in Rostow's model? | 40 | |
| 6161687682 | Traditional Society | The ____ has not yet started a process of development, high % of the population is in agriculture, high % of national wealth allocated to "non productive activities" such as the military or religion | 41 | |
| 6161687683 | Preconditions to Takeoff | "elite group" initiates economic activities, country begins to invest in new tech/ infrastructure which stimulates productivity, use of some capital equipment can help increase productivity and generate small surpluses which can be traded. | 42 | |
| 6161687684 | Takeoff | Rapid growth is generated by small number of economic activities (food products, textiles), become productive and achieve technical advances, industrial growth may be linked to primary industries. Rural to Urban movement. | 43 | |
| 6161687685 | Drive to Maturity | modern tech diffuses widely to a variety of industries, workers become skilled and specialized, tech plays larger role in value added products. | 44 | |
| 6161687686 | Mass Consumption | economy shifts from prod. of heavy industry to consumer goods, dominates the economy with banking, insurance, finance, marketing, entertainment, etc. | 45 | |
| 6161687687 | uneven distribution of recourses, increased dependence on developed countries, market decline | What are the Challenges of the International Trade Path. | 46 | |
| 6161687688 | World Trade organization | Works to reduce trade barriers, negotiates to reduce tariffs and quotes in international trade. | 47 | |
| 6161687689 | International Monetary Fund, World Bank | What are the two major lenders to MDCs? | 48 | |
| 6161687690 | IBRD, IDA | What are the two branches of the World Bank? | 49 | |
| 6161687691 | IBRD (international bank for reconstruction and development) | Which branch of the WB provide loans to safe countries? | 50 | |
| 6161687692 | IDA (International Development Association) | Which branch of the WB provide loans to risky countries? | 51 | |
| 6161687693 | stimulus and austerity | What are the two strategies for fighting sever economic downturn? | 52 | |
| 6161687694 | stimulus | gov. should spend more money than they can collect in taxes and stimulate economy by putting population to work on infrastructure. | 53 | |
| 6161687695 | austerity | gov. should sharply reduce taxes so that people and businesses can revive the economy by spending tax savings | 54 | |
| 6161687696 | funding and adopting a policy | What are the two main obstacles toward development? | 55 | |
| 6161687697 | Sub Saharan Africa and S. Asia | What are the two regions with highest levels income inequality | 56 | |
| 6161687698 | women in the national legislature, maternal mortality rate | What two indicators contribute the most to raising the GII in the US? | 57 |
