Exam 37: Global Poverty

One of the keys to reducing poverty is

A World View article,"Glaring Inequalities," says that income inequality tends to diminish as a nation develops.The distribution of income answers the ________ question.

According to the World Bank definitions,there are more people in the world living in extreme poverty than there are living in severe poverty.

Lack of access to sanitation and inadequate medical care have a negative impact on the development of human capital.

Which of the following is an indicator of how much output the average person would get if all output were divided up evenly among the population?

Currently most developed countries meet or exceed the U.N.'s Millennium Aid Goal for donor country GDP.

In-kind transfers include housing subsidies and food stamps.

Which of the following is not a true barrier to human capital development in poor nations?

The World Bank defines ________ poverty as an income of less than $3.10 per day per person.

The two general approaches to reducing global poverty include the redistribution of incomes and economic growth.

Institutional barriers that impede human and physical capital investment are known as

Which of the following is not an example of microfinance?

According to Hernando de Soto,poor countries should focus their development policies on all of the following except

The reduction in world poverty from 1990 to 2014 was due almost entirely to the decrease in poverty in

According to the World Bank,nearly 2 billion people are classified as being in ________ poverty.

According to the World View article titled "The Way We Give: Philanthropy Can Step In Where Market Forces Don't," in which of the following ways does philanthropy not improve the market outcome?

Which of the following is not associated with global poverty?

U.S.poverty is more about ________ deprivation than ________ deprivation.

The poverty rate is

The World Bank defines extreme poverty as income of less than $1.90 per day per person.