These are questions for the Economic Geography Unit:1. Identify and explain 4 Institutions of Economic Development. What are the costs and benefits of dealing with these institutions for the periphery countries? Extra credit if you can relate these institutions to your cultural hearth.
2. Discuss the history of US industrialization and the causes and effects of the shifting economic geography of American manufacturing since the 1970s.
3. Identify and discuss Rostow's stages of development in terms of its assumptions, predictions, strengths, and weaknesses.
4. Support and/or oppose globalization.
5. Economic activities are often categorized as being either primary, secondary, tertiary, or quaternary.
a. What is deindustrialization? How does it fit into this categorization of economic activities from a geographic and development perspective?
b. What are the effects of deindustrialization?
c. How does deindustrialization fit into the global geography of production that has emerged in the last 30 years? What are its backwash effects?
6. What are the characteristics of a less developed country? Use examples of economic indicators for classification.
7. What is the relationship between the developing and the developed world. Use two specific examples.
8. List and define different economic sectors of a country's economy and explain the relationship between them.
9. What are maquiladoras? Describe their spatial characteristics?
How do they affect the US/Mexican economy?
10. How can disparities between MDCs and LDCs be reduced according to the UN? (Hint: UN 8 Millennium Development Goals)
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