Exam 10: Development

Young girls trafficked from the periphery to wealthier regions most often work as ____________

What is the major difference between Rostow's and Wallerstein's models of development? Compare and contrast the idea of core processes and peripheral processes with Rostow's notion of progressive stages of economic advancement.

Dependency ratio measures: _____________

Governments in both core and periphery often create wealth by focusing well paid government jobs ________________

Subsistence forms of agriculture in peripheral areas produce little in the way of ________________

Many tourist areas in peripheral regions are beach resorts. In 2004 Thailand's beach resort areas were ravaged by _____________

Discuss several types of barriers to development. What can governments do to remove those barriers?

Gross national product (GNP)measures the total value of goods and services produced by a country's corporations and individuals. It is standardized by _________________

Recent developments in China's coastal provinces have created greater regional economic disparities with interior regions.

The world economic system works to the disadvantage of the periphery countries.

Which of the following has the highest per capita GNP?

Even if the Gross National Product (GNP)index is used to measure the well-being of a country,it will fail to show ______________

High levels of development can be determined by measurement of access to railways,roads,airline connections,telephones,radio and television,etc. These are collectively referred to as ________________

Mexico has established export processing zones with special tax,trade and regulatory arrangements for foreign firms. This phenomena is referred to as ______________

Twenty thousand nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)in Bangladesh constitute what can be called _______________

In Africa and other developing regions the output in the subsistence agricultural sector is not included in GNP calculations.

Modern ideas of development are related to ____________

There are extremes of development within all countries. Describe places at each end of the spectrum within a developed county and compare the description with places of extreme wealth and poverty within a peripheral country. In what ways are they similar and in what ways do they differ?

El Salvador abandoned its currency,the Colon,in favor of the U.S.dollar. This process is referred to as _______________

_________ have low levels of human development according to the Human Development Index (2005).