Unit 3 Development

Question 1

GNP, GDP, & other economic measures are standardized by

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being calculated on a per capita basis.

Question 2

Maps of Nigeria & Brazil would show that when govt's est new post-colonial capitals, moved from

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coastal port areas

Question 3

Which of the following is not an ex of a job in the Quaternary or Quinary sector of the economy

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Jim n' Nicks BBQ

Question 4

Countries in which tier of econ have high birth & death rates & low life expectancy at birth?

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periphery

Question 5

Which of the following is not an ex of a job in the primary sector of the economy

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Teacher

Question 6

Which is not among the five stagesof Rostow's development model?

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collapse-decline

Question 7

A large component of survival in countries withlow per capita GNP is

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the informal economy.

Question 8

Mexico has est. these epz's with special tax, trade & regulatory arrangements for foreign firms

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maquiladoras.

Question 9

Which of the following is not associatedwith core production processes?

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low-wage labor

Question 10

Governments in both core and periphery oftencreate wealth by focusing well paid government jobs

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in the capital city.

Question 11

Economic development in some African states(e.g. Malawi and Zimbabwe) is hampered by

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corrupt governments.

Question 12

Even if the GNP index is used to measure the well-being of a country, it will fail to show

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the distribution of wealth.

Question 13

Most victims of malaria are

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children under 5.

Question 14

In peripheral countries it is not unusual forhotels in tourist areas to be owned by

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multinational corporations.

Question 15

Wallerstein's three-tier regionalization of the world includes all of the following except

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Semi-Core

Question 16

________________ processes in the commoditychain involve technology, edu., R & D, & high wages.

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Core

Question 17

Rostow's model, developed in the early 1960s, wasbased upon the experience of

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Western modernization.

Question 18

Young girls trafficked from the periphery towealthier regions most often work as

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domestic workers/street vendors.

Question 19

Establishment of gov't quotas on imports(e.g. cotton shirts or steel) to the U.S. has led to

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shifting production from country 2countryin the per&semi-per

Question 20

The principal structuralist alternative to Rostow's model of economic development is known as

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dependency theory.

Question 21

Gross domestic product measures only

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production within a country.

Question 22

High levels of dev. can be determined bymeasurement of access to roads, sewers, internet, etc.

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infrastructure.

Question 23

El Salvador abandoned its currency, the Colon,in favor of the U.S. $. This is referred to as

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dollarization.

Question 24

Argentina's severe economic crisis in 2001 wastriggered by economic decisions made

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in Brazil

Question 25

The continuation of economic dependence evenafter political independence is referred to as

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neocolonialism.

Question 26

Which org. is led by a U.S. citizen, in DC & is tries to fight poverty inperipheral countries?

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World Bank

Question 27

Desertification in Africa is a particularproblem as ____ of the continent is arid or semiarid.

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2/3

Question 28

Which of the following is not an ex of a job in the tertiary sector of the economy

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Coca-Cola production

Question 29

Microcredit programs have been successful inmany places with the exception of

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places with high AIDS mortality rates.

Question 30

Which Asian nation listed below has a per capitaGNP above the world average?

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South Korea

Question 31

Core area agriculture is characterized by

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all of the above

Question 32

Many tourist areas in peripheral regions arebeach resorts like Thailand's that were ravaged by

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a tsunami in 2004.

Question 33

Theories which hold that economic disparitiesare built into the global economic system are

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structuralist theories.

Question 34

Which of the following is not an ex of a job in the secondary sector of the economy

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AMC movie theatre

Unit 3 Development

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Unit 3 Development

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