Vocab
Model
Development
Core, Periphery, Semi-
Periphery
Mix Mash
100
Quarry workers, quarry owners, stone cutters, exporters, designers and architects, builders, tile and stone distributors, etc. represent an example of the links connecting producers and consumers in a world market. This is an example of ​​​ a) an export-import model. b) a commodity chain. c) globalization theory. d) a core-periphery model.
What is b) a commodity chain.
100
Rostow's model, developed in the early 1960s, was based upon the experience of ​​ a) financial economists. b) Latin American countries. c) China. d) Western modernization.
What is d) Western modernization.
100
_______________ processes in the commodity chain involve technology, education, research and development, and high wages. a) Core b) Value-added c) Neo-colonial d) Periphery
What is a) core
100
Which of the following is not associated with core production processes? a) technology b) low-wage labor c) education d) research and development
What is b) low-wage labor
100
Port Gentile, Gabon was built by ​​​​ a) an ancient Gabonese civilization. b) British colonizers. c) European oil companies. d) migrants fleeing the Congo.
What is c) European oil companies.
200
The word "development" implies ​​​​ a) progress. b) colonialism. c) lowering of wages through mechanization. d) technology.
What is a progress
200
Which is not among the five stages of Rostow's development model? a) traditional b) take-off c) high-mass consumption d) collapse-decline
What is d) collapse-decline
200
Modern ideas of development are related to ​​​ a) the Industrial Revolution. b) the Agricultural Revolution. c) gross domestic product. d) religious views of equity.
What is a) the Industrial Revolution.
200
Wallerstein's three-tier regionalization of the world includes all of the following except ​​ a) core. b) semi-core. c) periphery. d) semi-periphery.
What is b) semi-core.
200
A look at the maps of Nigeria, Pakistan and Brazil would show that when governments established new post-colonial capitals, they moved away from ​​​ a) swamps. b) deserts. c) areas of ethnic discord. d) coastal port areas.
What is d) coastal port areas.
300
The continuation of economic dependence even after political independence is referred to as ​​ a) precondition to take-off. b) modernization model. c) neocolonialism. d) independence movement.
What is c neocolonialism
300
________________ processes in the commodity chain involve technology, education, research and development, and high wages. a) Core b) Value-added c) Neo-colonial d) Periphery
What is a) Core
300
Microcredit programs have been successful in many places with the exception of ​​ a) tropical regions. b) places with high AIDS mortality rates. c) areas with male dominance. d) desert regions.
What is a) tropical regions.
300
Countries in which tier of the world economy (region) have high birth and death rates and low life expectancy at birth? a) post-industrial b) core c) semi-periphery d) periphery
d) periphery
300
Many tourist areas in peripheral regions are beach resorts. In 2004 Thailand's beach resort areas were ravaged by ​​ a) cockroach infestations. b) a tsunami. c) prolonged drought. d) terror attacks.
What is a) cockroach infestations.
400
El Salvador abandoned its currency, the Colon, in favor of the U.S. dollar. This process is referred to as ​​​ a) re-structuration. b) re-colonization. c) international monetizing. d) dollarization.
What is d) dollarization.
400
The principal structuralist alternative to Rostow's model of economic development is known as ​​​ a) the "takeoff" model. b) the liberal model. c) the modernization model. d) dependency theory.
What is d) dependency theory
400
High levels of development can be determined by measurement of access to railways, roads, airline connections, telephones, radio and television, etc. These are collectively referred to as ​​ a) infrastructure. b) dependency measures. c) formal economy. d) commodity connections.
What is a) infrastructure.
400
In peripheral countries it is not unusual for hotels in tourist areas to be owned by ​​ a) worker's cooperatives. b) local or regional governments. c) local owner operators. d) multinational corporations.
What is d) multinational corporations.
400
Twenty thousand nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh constitute what can be called ​​​ a) a parallel state. b) colonial enclaves. c) development islands. d) subversive zones.
What is a) a parallel state
500
__________ give loans to poor people, preferably women, to encourage development of small businesses. a) NGOs b) Micro credit programs c) Structural adjustment loans d) Maquiladoras
What is b) Micro credit programs
500
Theories which hold that economic disparities are built into the global economic system are referred to as ​​​ a) structuralist theories. b) modernization theories. c) liberal theories. d) neo-capitalist theories.
What is a) structuralist theories
500
_________ have low levels of human development according to the Human Development Index (2005). a) Mali and the Congo b) Haiti and Egypt c) Libya and India d) Yemen and India
What is a) Mali and the Congo
500
The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the United States, with 80% unemployment and per capita income around $6,000, illustrates ______________ within a core area country. a) cultural choices b) peripheral processes c) core processes d) preconditions for takeoff stage
What is b) peripheral processes
500
Desertification in Africa is a particular problem as ____ of the continent is arid or semiarid. a) 2/3 b) 1/2 c) 1/3 d) 1/4
What is a) 2/3
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