Exam 8: Global Inequality

The United States would be considered one of the ________ countries in world-systems theory.

Fertility rates tend to be highest in what kind of countries?

In 2008,nearly 200 million children under age five in poor countries were stunted by a lack of nutrients in their food.More than 90 percent of those children live in:

Carolina is using world-systems theory to research countries that have resources that tend to flow to the most wealthy nations,which then sell them back to those countries for a profit.She is studying what kind of countries?

Manuel is doing a political economic analysis of the countries that formerly made up the Soviet Union.He is studying __________ countries.

________ argues that the world capitalist economic system is not merely a collection of independent countries engaged in diplomatic and economic relations with one another but rather must be understood as a single unit.

How does the World Bank measure global inequality,and what are some of the problems with measuring global inequality in this way?

Ranjeet studies much of eastern,western,and sub-Saharan Africa; Vietnam,Cambodia,Indonesia,and a few other East Asian countries; India,Nepal,Bangladesh,and Pakistan in South Asia; East and Central European countries such as Georgia and Ukraine; and Haiti and Nicaragua in the Western Hemisphere.She is studying __________ countries.

According to the text,all of the following are contributing factors to food shortages and hunger throughout the globe EXCEPT:

Sonyuchka studies countries that are located primarily in East and Southeast Asia,the oil-rich countries of the Middle East and North Africa,the Americas (Mexico,Central America,Cuba and other countries in the Caribbean,and South America),and the once-communist republics that formerly made up the Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies.She is likely studying __________ countries.

The ranks of the middle-income countries expanded significantly between 1999 and 2000.Why?

Compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of the four competing sociological theories that explain global inequality.

The text defines global inequality as:

Keynesian economists begin with the assumption that the state should regulate economic policy for everyone's benefit.Why might sociologists who use market-oriented theories be critical of this idea?

The middle-income countries are primarily located in: