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List different ways of measuring a country's economic development. | GNP, GDP, per capita GDP, level of industrialization, literacy rates, infrastructure, telecommunications |
What is the relationship between literacy rates and economic development? | people who read and write push for and bring about development |
What determines a developed country? | high GDP's, good educational systems, available health care, industrialization, and telecommunications |
What determines a developing country? | low GDP's, little industry, much poverty & unemployment, and limited heatlh services, education, and telecommunications |
Why are some areas more densely populated? | environments are better suited to agriculture or cities/industry attract people |
What are challenges future populations will face? | providing food for an increasing population and dealing with the spread of disease |
What are the divisions of economic activities? | primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary |
What economic system to most developed countries have? | free enterprise |
What economic system do developing countries have? | mix of command and market economies |
What is GNP? | total value of goods/services produced by a country in a year both inside and outside the country |
What is GDP? | total value of goods/services produced within a country |
What is telecommunications? | electronically transmitted communication |
What is the statistical characteristics of the human population? | Demography |