Exam 9: Development Geography: Transforming Landscapes of Well-Being

The Grameen Bank lends money only to those who have no assets or credit.

What industry have several countries in the Global South cooperated on, resulting in potentially new growth and production sectors?

In recent years, men and women have moved much closer to wage equality in the United States.

Which agreement seeks to achieve a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions?

If nonmarket household production were included in calculations of economic output in the United States, the result would be:

Which organization does NOT seek to spur economic development?

Which troubled U.S. city was the largest to declare bankruptcy and has lost over half its population since 1950?

Primary and secondary industries leave their mark on the landscape, but service industries do not.

Usage of cell phones in the Global South has surpassed usage in the wealthy northern countries.

The main emphasis of the primary sector of the economy is:

Typically, the poor have the least access to everything that is related to development, including health care, clean water, and adequate housing.

The industries that extract resources from Earth comprise the:

In the twentieth century, which group consisted of the world's wealthy, democratic, capitalist nations?

The terms First World, Second World, Third World, and Fourth World only referred to economic conditions of different parts of the world.

Which is NOT true of China?

The Grameen Bank was founded by Marilyn Waring.

The HDI (human development index) shows the amount of goods produced within a country each year.

Which has NOT been a hindrance to the widespread adoption of alternative energy sources?

Which regions of China have been most impacted by unregulated burning of coal?

According to early theories of development, low standards of living were MOST often associated with: