Which term is “A vectored disease spread by mosquitos that carry it in their saliva and kills nearly 150,000 children each year.”
Malaria
100
Define dollarization.
When a poorer country ties the value of its currency to that of a wealthier country, or when it abandons its currency and adopts the wealthier country's currency as its own.
100
Which model consisted of three main parts?
Three-tier structure
100
“Shortly after the decolonization wave of the 1960’s, _____ and other international financial institutions began lending large sums of money to the newly independent states, money earmarked for development projects.”
Banks
100
Which continent is in the least danger from Malaria (Except Antarctica)?
Australia
200
Which terms is defined as “When a family sends a child or an adult to a labor recruiter in hope that the labor recruiter will send money, and the family member will earn more money to send home.”
Tracfficking
200
Define Commodity Chain
A Series of links connecting the many places of production and distribution and resulting in a commodity that is exchanged on the world market.
200
Which theory is defined as “A general term for a model of economic development that treats economic disparities among countries or regions as the result of historically derived power relations within the global economic system.”
Structuralist Theory
200
Name five countries that have high human development (No more than two can be European)
US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, D.A.E., Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Great Britain, Ireland, Cyprus, and central Europe
200
Which country has the highest per capita GNI?
Norway, at just under $100,000.
300
Which terms is defined as “With response to a country, making progress in technology, production, and socioeconomic welfare.”
Developing
300
Define an island of development
Place built up by a government or corporation to attract foreign investment and which has relatively high concentrations of paying jobs and infrastructure.
300
The World-Systems Theory was created by which famous geographer?
Immanuel Wallerstein
300
Most of the victims of Malaria and children aged ____ or younger.
Five
300
Two of the best known types of export processing zones are
Mexican Maquiladoras
Chinese Special Economic Zones
400
Which term means “Derives from the idea that government intervention into markets is inefficient and undesirable, and should be resisted wherever possible.”
Neoliberalism
400
Define GNI and per capita GNI
The Gross National Product of a given country divided by its population.
400
Which idea stated the following,
(1) eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
(2) achieve universal primary education
(3) promote gender equality and empower women
(4) reduce child mortality
(5) improve maternal health
(6) combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
(7) ensure environmental sustainability
(8) develop a global partnership for development
Millennium Development Goals
400
Why did it make sense for El Salvador to adopt the American dollar through dollarization?
Because the countries were already intertwined, over $3.5 billion dollars had been sent to El Salvador because of Salvadorians living in the US and many transactions in El Salvador were already in US dollars.
400
By the early 2000’s, more than __ countries had Export Processing Zones
60
500
Which term is defined as “The geographical situation in which something occurs; the combination of what is happening at a variety of scales concurrently.”
Context
500
What is a nongovernmental organization and what is it abbreviated to?
International organizations that operate outside of the formal political arena but that are nevertheless influential in spearheading international initiatives on social, economic, and environmental issues. NGO.
500
Which geographer theorized with Colin Flint that five possible orders could be made from the three remaining WW2 (USSR, UK, and the US) powers,
They could each remain independent with their own allies
All three banded together in the UN
The US and USSR against the UK
The US and UK against the USSR
The USSR and the UK against the US
He later worked in a Globalization and World Cities study group with Jon Beaverstock and other geographers.
Peter Taylor
500
NAFTA (The North American Free Trade Agreement) was first established in what year?
1992
500
In 2006 the Economist said, “_______ helps the Taliban.”