Foreign Languages
Economic development.
Definition
Economic development (el desarrollo económico, le développement économique) is an AP-level theme that examines how economies grow and change in target-language countries, including topics like globalization, trade, urbanization, and inequality.
Examples
Real-world.
- 1 Mexico's maquiladoras are factories near the U.S. border that illustrate globalization's impact on local economies.
- 2 The European Union and the euro have significantly shaped France and Germany's economic integration.
- 3 China's economic reforms since 1978 (改革开放 gǎigé kāifàng) transformed it into the world's second-largest economy.