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Unit 7 measures and models, from your own notes
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Choose the measure by the question it answers
GDP counts production inside borders; GNI follows the nation's people and firms wherever the pay comes from; per capita versions divide by population before comparing. The HDI composites income with life expectancy and schooling, which is why oil states can rank high on income and lower on HDI. Gender indices expose gaps single averages hide. The graded move is naming why your chosen measure fits the question.
Rostow: development as a ladder anyone can climb
Rostow's stages run traditional society through preconditions, takeoff and maturity to mass consumption, with investment and entrepreneurship as the engine. The model's optimism is also its critique surface: it assumes every economy walks the same path with enough capital, reads history from one industrialiser's experience, and ignores the positions other economies already occupy. State the model, then its assumptions, because the exam grades both.
World systems: development as position, not stage
Wallerstein's core, semi periphery and periphery describe one global economy in which core places keep design, finance and profit while peripheral ones supply labour and raw material, semi periphery doing both. Dependency arguments sharpen it: colonial trade patterns, raw exports for finished imports, persist as locked roles. The model explains stuck places well and mobility less well, which is exactly the comparative question prompts ask.
The mechanisms that move places between categories
The new international division of labour sends fabrication to low wage regions while design and finance stay core; special economic zones bid for the factories; remittances and outsourcing wire wages across borders. Microloans bank women the formal system ignored, and the gendered finding, small credit to women moving household welfare, is a named exam point. Each mechanism is a lever, and scenarios ask which lever a policy pulls.
Sustainability closes the course's argument
Development's costs, resource draw, emissions, waste, land conversion, feed back into the geography every earlier unit mapped, so the course ends by asking what growth a place can keep. Sustainable development language, meeting present needs without spending the future's, pairs with concrete instruments: efficiency standards, renewable transitions, ecotourism's promise and its greenwash risk. The scored skill is pairing a goal with its instrument and its trade off.
What to photograph for Industrial and Economic Development
Your measure tables and model critiques. Related: Unit 6, photo to quiz and pricing.
Sources used on this page
- College Board, AP Human Geography
- Human Development Index
- Rostow's stages of growth
- World-systems theory
- Microfinance
- Active recall
- Spaced repetition
- Testing effect
- Forgetting curve
- Generation effect
- Judgment of learning
- Metacognition
- Desirable difficulty
- Distributed practice
- Formative assessment
- Flashcard
- Cloze test
- Multiple choice
- Test (assessment)
- Educational assessment
- Advanced Placement
- Curriculum
- Study skills
- Study guide
- Note-taking
- Overlearning
- Instructional scaffolding
- Item analysis
- Mastery learning
| Tool | What it claims | Its blind spot |
|---|---|---|
| GDP per capita | Production per person | Distribution and informal work |
| HDI | Income, health, schooling | Inequality inside the average |
| Gender indices | Gaps behind averages | Data quality varies |
| Rostow's stages | A climbable ladder | One path, ignores position |
| World systems | Positions in one economy | Explains mobility poorly |
| Microfinance | Banking the unbanked | Small scale, debt risk |
What does AP Human Geography Unit 7 cover?
Development: its measures from GDP to HDI and gender indices, Rostow against world systems theory, trade mechanisms, microfinance and sustainability.
Why can a country rank differently on GDP and HDI?
HDI adds life expectancy and schooling to income, so high income places with weaker health or education slide against pure output rankings.
What is the core critique of Rostow?
It reads one industrialiser's history as everyone's path and ignores the positions economies already hold in the world system.
What does world systems theory explain best?
Stuck places: how core design and finance pair with peripheral labour and raw material to keep roles locked across generations.
Why do microloans target women?
They bank people the formal system ignored, and lending to women measurably moves household welfare, a named point in this unit.
Can I build questions from my own Unit 7 notes?
Yes. Whatever you upload sets the boundary. Photograph the pages or send the chapter as a PDF and the questions stay inside it.
Last updated: 2026-08-15