Development APHUG

Test Description: Development

Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.

1) First -tier world cities include (hint: think economic leaders of the world)

2) Rostow's stages of development model predicts that each country's economy will progress from

3) Which of the following are commonly associated with the Industrial Revolution?

4) One critique of ______ is that they function as a parallel state, financed by foreigners and accountable to no one.

5) Pollution, desertification, and tourism might be considered

6) Barriers to development include all of the following except

7) Export processing zones in Mexico are best known as ___________

8) A ___________ holds that difficult-to-change, large-scale economic arrangements shape what can happen in fundamental ways.

9) Critics argue that ______has a Western bias, and treats countries as autonomous units moving through a process at different speeds

10) __________ give loans to poor people, preferably women, to encourage development of small businesses.

11) When a government or company builds up and concentrates economic development in a particular city of small region, geographers call that place

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

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

14) Subsaharan Africa has lost more than 270,000 square miles (700,000 square km) of farmland in the past 50 years due to:

15) The example of Zimbabwe illustrates which barrier to development?

16) Theories which hold that economic disparities are built into the global economic system are referred to as

17) The continuation of economic dependence even after political independence is referred to as

18) The principal structuralist alternative to Rostow’s model of economic development is known as

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

20) Which is not among the five stages of Rostow’s development model?


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