Exam 12: Global Stratification

With regard to the role of rich nations, dependency theory:

Modernization theory claims that rich nations can and do help solve the world's poverty problem.

Which type of slavery consists of employers holding workers by paying them too little to cover their debts?

Absolute poverty is:

André Gunder Frank states that poor nations:

How does neocolonialism differ from colonialism?

Low-income countries are home to more than half of the world's people.

Although poverty continues, the world has ended the practice of slavery.

The text defines middle-income nations as having per capita income between $2,500 and $10,000 per year.

The world's richest individual has wealth equal to the total economic output of the world's poorest 34 countries.

Compared to poverty in the United States, poverty in the world as a whole is both more widespread and more severe.

Colonialism and neocolonialism both refer to a situation where one country politically rules or controls another country.

Modernization theory identifies which of the following as the greatest barrier to economic development?

In W. W. Rostow's model of economic development, the first level is called the "take-off stage."

While modernization theory focuses on _____, dependency theory focuses on _____

In past centuries, European nations colonized countries in:

A social theorist who contributed to the development of dependency theory by tracing the growth of the capitalist world economy is:

For the world as a whole, about how many people suffer from chronic hunger that leaves them less able to work and places them at high risk of disease?

Write an essay in which you describe an approach to ending world hunger drawing on, first, the modernization approach, and, second, the dependency approach. That is, what lessons can we learn from each approach? Be as specific as you can as to what policies poor countries should enact. Consider, too, the role of rich nations.

Describe the distribution of income for the world as a whole.