Global Economics, Employment, and Environmental Perspectives

Economic Perspective

Developed countries and others utilize stock investing for future gains. Key stock exchanges include Tokyo, New York, and London. Chile is a major copper producer. The situation in 1973, when Salvador Allende aimed to nationalize mines, led to price fluctuations. Each stock exchange specializes in different sectors. Stock markets now significantly influence the future of both developed and developing nations. Multinational corporations, often headquartered in developed-world

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Understanding the Primary Sector: Agriculture, Livestock, and Forestry

The primary sector includes activities devoted to agriculture, livestock, fisheries, forestry, and the exploitation of mining resources. Key trends in the sector include a decrease in the active population. The active population engaged in this activity is aging, and working conditions are often challenging.

Agriculture

Extensive agriculture, common in America, focuses on high yields cultivated in large tracts with low labor input, such as U.S. grain agriculture. Plantation agriculture relies on technology

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15th Century Europe: Monarchies & Exploration

Europe in the 15th Century

During the fifteenth century, Europe pursued a demographic and economic recovery, overcoming the serious crisis of the late Middle Ages. Monarchs seized part of the political power from the nobility and centralized it. The disappearance of epidemics led to an increase in population, which also led to increased demand in the agricultural sector, gradually pulling it out of stagnation. Sea routes became active again. The development of trade and crafts increased productivity

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Key Geographic and Demographic Terms

Watershed

Watershed: The land area drained by a main sewer and its tributaries, whose limit is in the watersheds of each of the rivers that integrate it.

Natural Growth

Natural Growth: A demographic indicator in determining the quantities that the population of a country grows in one year; the difference between natality and mortality.

Real Growth

Real Growth: A demographic indicator that determines the quantities in real mode that the population of a country increases in a year. (Natural growth + Net

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Key Demographic Concepts and Indicators in Spain

Key Demographic Concepts and Indicators: Spain

Population Census

Population census: Counting and recording demographic information. It is carried out and published with a fixed schedule, with the purpose of ascertaining the demographic, social, cultural, and economic characteristics of all the population. In Spain, the first census was elaborated in 1857, and since 1900 it has been executed every ten years (since 1981, in years ending in one).

Population Density

Density of population: An expression

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Spain’s Socioeconomic Shifts: Early 20th Century

Economic and Social Transformations in Spain: Early 20th Century

Demographic Evolution

The Demographic Transition

The onset of demographic transition in Spain was marked by a decline in mortality rates and a continued high birth rate.

Migratory Movements

Between 1900 and 1931, Spain experienced a large increase in internal migration, which led to a redistribution of the regional population. A large number of people moved into the modern sectors of the economy, and the agricultural labor force decreased

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