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Monsoon Asia

vocabulary

AB
the ability of one country to produce a good or provide a service at a lower cost or more effectively than another countrycomparative advantage
an area that uses the same clock timetime zone
a condition in which the population of a country does not grow but remains stablezero population growth
the use of technology to move and process informationinformation technology
social status/class of Hindu societycaste
the loss of well-educated people such as doctors or engineers to another countrybrain drain
the annual rate of population growthrate of natural increase
to hire someone outside a company to do work that was once done inside the companyoutsource
the length of time it takes for a population to doubledoubling time
a severed shortage of food that results in wide-spread hungerfamine
a grass whose stems are used extensively in everyday life as building materialsbamboo
the number of births in a year for every 1,000 people in a populationbirth rate
an artificial lake where water is storedreservoir
political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movementMahatma
investment by a person or company based in another countryforeign investment
a person who moves regularly in order to find work, especially in harvesting cropsmigrant worker
the number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people in a populationdeath rate
a chemical that is poisonous to humans or other llving thingstoxic chemical
practice of nonviolent resistance developed by Gandhisatyagraha


Kathy Kalnin

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