Ch 18.

ch. 18 Economic Development

Arlene Porras, Sergio Vergara

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Questions

1. Which type of economic activities would most likely be found in a newly industrialized country with commercial?

F. primary activities H. tertiary activities

G. secondary activities J. quaternary activities

2. Which is an example of a secondary economic activity?

A. growing corn on a farm for export.

B. working in a plant, manufacturing automobiles.

C. growing just enough food for one's immediate family.

D. managing a large multinational corporation.

G.D.P per capita

reflects the value of goods and services produced in a year in a nation by an average person.

Tertiary Activities

Quaternary Activities

Summary

deal with services.

involving for information processing and management.

In this chapter you will learn how various indicators are used to describe how developed a nation economy is. These same indicators are also used to measure the level of a country's standards of living.

G.D.P

is the total value of all goods and serves produced by a nation in a year.

Primary Activities

Secondary Activities

the manufacture and production of goods,

such as the making of textiles and furniture.

economic activities in all societies

involve the production of food and

the extraction of resources.

Human Development

was developed by the United Nations in 1990 as a tool for ranking countries based on their level of economic development gender and social equality and the quality of life enjoyed by their citizens.

Terms

Infant Mortality

Literacy

>Human Development Index

>Less Developed

>Newly Industrialized

>More Developed

>G.D.P.

>G.D.P. per Capita

>Infant Mortality

>Literacy

>Primary Activities

>Secondary Activities

>Tertiary Activities

>Quaternary Activities

the number of infants who die for every thousands births.

the percentage of people attending colleges and universities, and the number of professional people, such as doctors and lawyers.

Warm-up

Describe Birth and Death rates?

More Developed

Less Developed

countries with advanced economies are known as more developed nations.

countries with lower standards of living and less advanced technologies are known as less developed nation.