Exam 9: Race and Ethnicity

Which region of the world has the lowest life expectancy for persons born in 2015?

The multidimensional measure of poverty is most useful in analyzing poverty in high- and middle-income countries, where people have greater access to resources.

The term ___________refers to material well-being that can be measured by the quality of goods and services that may be purchased by the per capita national income.

Defining levels of poverty involves measuring along several dimensions, including______________________ .

___________states that global poverty can at least partially be attributed to the fact that the low-income countries have been exploited by the high-income countries during the historical growth of capitalism.

Nearly ___________people around the world are malnourished.

The most widely known development theory is___________ , which is a perspective that links global inequality to different levels of economic development and suggests that low-income economies can move to middle- and high- income economies by achieving self-sustained economic growth.

Nations with industrializing economies, particularly in urban areas, and moderate levels of national and personal income are termed ____________.

Nations with___________ continue to dominate the world economy, despite the fact that shifts in the global marketplace have affected some workers, who have found themselves without work due to capital flight.

About___________of the world's population resides in nations with a middle-income economy.

Only high-income countries are relatively unaffected by capital flight.

China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, and portions of the former Soviet Union have been considered examples of __________ nations.

Define the two types of global commodity chains.

Many of the poorest people in the world live in high-income countries.

___________poverty is measured by comparing one person's income with the incomes of others.

In the world system, countries that are dependent on core nations for capital, have little or no industrialization, and have uneven urbanization are termed___________ .

A Gini coefficient of 0 means that______________________ .

The World Bank divides middle-income economies into different categories. Mongolia and Paraguay are examples of nations with___________ economies.

The movement of jobs and economic resources from one nation to another is termed ___________.

Walt Rostow, economic advisor to U.S. President Kennedy and proponent of modernization theory, identified ___________as one of the largest barriers to development in low-income nations.