Unit 7: Industrial and Economic Development

This unit focuses on the origins and influences of industrial development, along with the role industrialization plays in economic development and globalization. Some of the developing understanding for this unit includes:

• Understanding of the measures of social and economic development and to explain development theories, such as dependency theory and Rostow's Stages of Economic Growth

• Contemporary spatial patterns of industrialization and the resulting geography of uneven development

• Changes of places result in the growth or loss of industry and the role of industry and the role of industry in the world economy

• Strategies for sustainable development focused on women, children, health, education, the environment, and global cooperation

• Role of women in labor markets