This document provides an overview of key concepts in economic geography and development, including:
- Three types of economic changes: structure, organization, and technology use
- Measures of economic development like GDP, GNI, and PPP that show international disparities
- How countries' economic development relates to their resources like energy, land, and industrial materials
- The shifting economic structures around primary, secondary, tertiary and now quaternary sectors
- Factors shaping regional economic development like agglomeration, localization economies, and government intervention
- The impacts of globalization including new divisions of labor, supply chains, and the rise of world cities and tax havens.