Exam 11: The Asia Pacific Region

Grameen Bank is a private commercial enterprise in ________ that developed a program to supply phones to 300 villages.

Liaoning and Jilin provinces of China share borders with North Korea, and both provinces have substantial numbers of Korean minorities.

China's astonishing growth rate has begun to slow recently; however, most analysts see fast growth continuing for China. All of this growth is primarily dependent, in part, on China's

Northeast China was the industrial and technological center of the country in the 1970s and 1980s.

Owing to the deeply corrupt system, most of the U.S. manufacturers in India are leaving for other countries or pulling their money back home.

The ________ region in China includes three cities of over 5 million inhabitants (Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen); five cities with more than 1 million inhabitants (Zhuhai, Huizhou, Foshan, Zhongshan, and Dongguan); and a number of cities that each contain approximately half a million inhabitants, such as Macau.

The sector that was hit the hardest during the Japanese recession was the real estate sector.

C. K. Prahalad has cited two primary misconceptions behind the international marketers ignoring the bottom-of-the-pyramid markets. One of the reasons is that the products and services developed for more affluent consumers are not appropriate for these markets. Which of the following is the other misconception?

Explain the two major events of 2000 that had a major impact on China's economy.

What is most likely to cause the biggest problems for television and radio advertisers in China?

What was Japan's greatest hindrance to the development of software innovations appropriate for world markets?

_______ is now Japan's most important trading partner.

The most important advantage of Northeast China that mainly contributed toward its being the industrial and technological center of the country in the 1970s and 1980s is

A survey of U.S. manufacturers shows that 95 percent of respondents with Indian operations plan on expanding, and none say they are leaving, in spite of widespread corruption in the country. What is primarily behind this new trend?

C. K. Prahalad and associates introduced the concept of a global market, not necessarily defined by national borders but rather by the pockets of poverty across countries and consisting of 4 billion people across the globe with annual incomes of less than $1,200. They refer to these regions, concentrated in the LDCs and LLDCs, as ________ markets.

In the 1970s, Frank Gibney called Japan "The Fragile Superpower," which was confirmed with the economic crisis of the 1990s. In his new appraisal, Gibney writes that Japan has become the victim of

The PNTR status given to China contributed much toward increasing the import barriers on American products and services.

China's "one country, two systems" agreement with Hong Kong guarantees the latter a high degree of autonomy.

How have multinational companies contributed toward the development of rural China?

IBM entered into a venture with the Chinese Railways Ministry that allowed IBM to set up a national network of IBM service centers in railway stations so that IBM could ship computer parts via the railroad around the country within 24 hours. This venture was dubbed the