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First -tier world cities include (hint: think economic leaders of the world)
a) Tokyo, Mexico City, and Sao Paulo
b) Washington, Moscow, and London
c) Tokyo, London, and New Yor
d) Los Angeles, London, and Paris

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) high consumption to ecological sustainability
c) low output to high output
d) low employment in tertiary activities to high unemployment in primary activities

Which of the following are commonly associated with the Industrial Revolution?
a) specialty goods
b) cottage industries
c) new forms of capital investment
d) the printing press

One critique of ______ is that they function as a parallel state, financed by foreigners and accountable to no one.
a) nongovernmental organizations
b) megacity government
c) universities
d) private banks

Pollution, desertification, and tourism might be considered
a) unsustainable development
b) beneficial to GDP.
c) byproducts of maquiladora development
d) costs of development

Barriers to development include all of the following except
a) biologic diversity
b) foreign debt
c) political corryption
d) social conditions

Export processing zones in Mexico are best known as ___________
a) non governmental organization
b) Maquiladoras
c) forward captials
d) OPECs

A ___________ holds that difficult-to-change, large-scale economic arrangements shape what can happen in fundamental ways.
a) structuralist theory
b) contextural theory
c) dollarization theory
d) modernization theory

Critics argue that ______has a Western bias, and treats countries as autonomous units moving through a process at different speeds
a) Rostow's modwernization
b) Wallerstein's World Systems Theory
c)
d)

__________ give loans to poor people, preferably women, to encourage development of small businesses.
a) NGOs
b) Structual adjustment loans
c) Microcredit programs
d) Maquiladoras

When a government or company builds up and concentrates economic development in a particular city of small region, geographers call that place
a) an island of development
b) an economic liability
c) nongovernmental development
d) none of these

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

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) colonization
c) NAFTA
d) mechanization

Subsaharan Africa has lost more than 270,000 square miles (700,000 square km) of farmland in the past 50 years due to:
a) Corrupt leadership
b) Defaulting on foreign debt
c) Unchecked industrial growth
d) Educational access

The example of Zimbabwe illustrates which barrier to development?
a) dollarization
b) re-colonization
c) restructions
d) re-currency

Theories which hold that economic disparities are built into the global economic system are referred to as
a) modernization theories
b) liberal theories
c) structuralist theories
d) neocapitalist theories

The continuation of economic dependence even after political independence is referred to as
a) modernization model
b) neocolonialism
c) glocalization
d) precondition to take-off

The principal structuralist alternative to Rostow’s model of economic development is known as
a) dependency theory
b) the takeoff model
c) the modernization model
d) the liberal model

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) Latin American countries
c) China
d) financial economists

Which is not among the five stages of Rostow’s development model?
a) drive to maturity
b) traditional
c) take-ff
d) collapse-decline

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