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Test Description: Development
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1) First -tier world cities include (hint: think economic leaders of the world)
A
Los Angeles, London, and Paris
B
Tokyo, London, and New Yor
C
Tokyo, Mexico City, and Sao Paulo
D
Washington, Moscow, and London
2) Rostow's stages of development model predicts that each country's economy will progress from
A
low per-capita incomes to high per-capita incomes and high consumption
B
low employment in tertiary activities to high unemployment in primary activities
C
low output to high output
D
high consumption to ecological sustainability
3) Which of the following are commonly associated with the Industrial Revolution?
A
new forms of capital investment
B
specialty goods
C
cottage industries
D
the printing press
4) One critique of ______ is that they function as a parallel state, financed by foreigners and accountable to no one.
A
private banks
B
megacity government
C
universities
D
nongovernmental organizations
5) Pollution, desertification, and tourism might be considered
A
byproducts of maquiladora development
B
beneficial to GDP.
C
costs of development
D
unsustainable development
6) Barriers to development include all of the following except
A
social conditions
B
political corryption
C
foreign debt
D
biologic diversity
7) Export processing zones in Mexico are best known as ___________
A
Maquiladoras
B
OPECs
C
forward captials
D
non governmental organization
8) A ___________ holds that difficult-to-change, large-scale economic arrangements shape what can happen in fundamental ways.
A
dollarization theory
B
contextural theory
C
modernization theory
D
structuralist theory
9) Critics argue that ______has a Western bias, and treats countries as autonomous units moving through a process at different speeds
A
Wallerstein's World Systems Theory
B
Rostow's modwernization
10) __________ give loans to poor people, preferably women, to encourage development of small businesses.
A
NGOs
B
Structual adjustment loans
C
Microcredit programs
D
Maquiladoras
11) When a government or company builds up and concentrates economic development in a particular city of small region, geographers call that place
A
none of these
B
an economic liability
C
an island of development
D
nongovernmental development
12) 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
semi peripheral processes
B
core processes
C
preconditions for takeoff stage
D
peripheral processes
13) Multiple choice created: 01/23/2017 last modified: 01/23/2017 El Salvador abandoned its currency, the Colon, in favor of the U.S. dollar. This process is referred to as
A
desertification
B
NAFTA
C
mechanization
D
colonization
14) Subsaharan Africa has lost more than 270,000 square miles (700,000 square km) of farmland in the past 50 years due to:
A
Educational access
B
Corrupt leadership
C
Unchecked industrial growth
D
Defaulting on foreign debt
15) The example of Zimbabwe illustrates which barrier to development?
A
dollarization
B
restructions
C
re-colonization
D
re-currency
16) Theories which hold that economic disparities are built into the global economic system are referred to as
A
neocapitalist theories
B
modernization theories
C
liberal theories
D
structuralist theories
17) The continuation of economic dependence even after political independence is referred to as
A
neocolonialism
B
modernization model
C
glocalization
D
precondition to take-off
18) The principal structuralist alternative to Rostow’s model of economic development is known as
A
the modernization model
B
the takeoff model
C
dependency theory
D
the liberal model
19) Multiple choice created: 01/23/2017 last modified: 01/23/2017 Rostow’s model, developed in the early 1960s, was based upon the experience o
A
Western modernization
B
financial economists
C
Latin American countries
D
China
20) Which is not among the five stages of Rostow’s development model?
A
drive to maturity
B
take-ff
C
collapse-decline
D
traditional
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