Core-Periphery Model a process that incorporate lower levels of education, low salaries, and less technology; and generate less wealth than core processes in the world-economy b places where core and periphery processes are both occurring; places that are exploited by the core but in turn exploit in periphery c Balanced equally. Equal economy, reduce poverty, isolate businesses to help, barriers limit imports, restrict local business d A model that describes how economic, political, and/or cultural power is spatially distributed between dominant core regions, and more marginal or dependent semi-peripheral and peripheral regions.