Exam 12: Global Stratification

The poorest 20 percent of the world's people live on just 2 percent of the world's income.

Typically,people in low-income countries do more physical labor,but they consume fewer calories than people in rich nations.

Dependency theory claims that the economic positions of the rich and poor nations of the globe are linked.

Taken together,the sociological approaches to global poverty show us that poverty is

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

The poorest 20 percent of the global population receives about what percentage of all global income?

Huge businesses that operate in many different countries are called multinational corporations.

During the twentieth century,the standard of living in high-income countries,where the Industrial Revolution took place,increased dramatically.

In middle-income nations,average personal income is in the range of

There is less economic inequality in the world today than there was a century ago.