Question 1

The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the United States,with 80% unemployment and per capita income around $6,000,illustrates ______________ within a core area country.

Accepted Answer

A)  cultural choices
B)  peripheral processes
C)  core processes
D)  preconditions for takeoff stage B

Question 2

Mexico has established export processing zones with special tax,trade and regulatory arrangements for foreign firms.This phenomena is referred to as

Accepted Answer

A)  maquiladoras.
B)  haciendas.
C)  border cities.
D)  NAFTA zones. A

Question 3

Which does not make up a portion of Colombia's GNI?

Accepted Answer

A)  professional sports franchises
B)  tourism
C)  coffee production
D)  drug trafficking D

Question 4

The ___________________of the United Nations are aimed at improving the conditions of the people with the lowest standard of living?

Accepted Answer

A)  Dependency Ratios
B)  Modernization Models
C)  Millennium Development Goals
D)  International Monetary Fund

Question 5

High levels of development can be determined by measurement of access to railways,roads,airline connections,telephones,radio and television,etc.These are collectively referred to as

Accepted Answer

A)  infrastructure.
B)  dependency measures.
C)  formal economy.
D)  commodity connections.

Question 6

GNI is a limited measure because it only includes transactions in the formal economy.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

A high percentage of laborers engaged in the production of food staples indicates a low,overall level of development.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

GNI per capita only measures outputs,so it does not take into account externalities like environmental damage (e.g.,resource depletion,air pollution).

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

According to a United Nations assessment in 2014,each of the world regions listed had made progress in reducing undernourishment except:

Accepted Answer

A)  Southeast Asia
B)  Caucasus and Central Asia
C)  Eastern Asia
D)  Western Asia

Question 10

Young girls trafficked from the periphery to wealthier regions most often work as

Accepted Answer

A)  domestic workers/street vendors.
B)  industrial labor.
C)  agricultural labor.
D)  construction workers.

Question 11

El Salvador abandoned its currency,the Colon,in favor of the U.S.dollar.This process is referred to as

Accepted Answer

A)  re-structuration.
B)  re-colonization.
C)  international monetizing.
D)  dollarization.

Question 12

One compensation of being in a peripheral region of the world economy is that goods and services are low cost,thus making education free of cost in most of the region.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

The world economic system works to the disadvantage of the periphery countries.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Geographers are attracted to the world systems theory because it incorporates space,time and politics that shape the context in which development takes place.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Port Gentile is an example of an island of development.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Define Gross National Product.Discuss the world map of per capita GNP and apply Wallerstein's three-tier regionalization (core,semi-periphery,and periphery)to divide the world into three development regions.Give examples of countries in each region.

Accepted Answer

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Question 17

Discuss several types of barriers to development.What can governments do to remove those barriers?

Accepted Answer

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Question 18

Gross domestic product measures only

Accepted Answer

A)  home-based output.
B)  the informal economy.
C)  the productivity of individuals.
D)  production only within a country.

Question 19

Economic development in some African states (e.g.Malawi and Zimbabwe)is hampered by

Accepted Answer

A)  drought.
B)  religions intolerance.
C)  corrupt governments.
D)  drop in the price of oil.

Question 20

Twenty thousand nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)in Bangladesh constitute what can be called

Accepted Answer

A)  a parallel state.
B)  colonial enclaves.
C)  development islands.
D)  subversive zones.

Exam 10: Development

The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the United States,with 80% unemployment and per capita income around $6,000,illustrates ______________ within a core area country.

Mexico has established export processing zones with special tax,trade and regulatory arrangements for foreign firms.This phenomena is referred to as

Which does not make up a portion of Colombia's GNI?

The ___________________of the United Nations are aimed at improving the conditions of the people with the lowest standard of living?

High levels of development can be determined by measurement of access to railways,roads,airline connections,telephones,radio and television,etc.These are collectively referred to as

GNI is a limited measure because it only includes transactions in the formal economy.

A high percentage of laborers engaged in the production of food staples indicates a low,overall level of development.

GNI per capita only measures outputs,so it does not take into account externalities like environmental damage (e.g.,resource depletion,air pollution).

According to a United Nations assessment in 2014,each of the world regions listed had made progress in reducing undernourishment except:

Young girls trafficked from the periphery to wealthier regions most often work as

El Salvador abandoned its currency,the Colon,in favor of the U.S.dollar.This process is referred to as

One compensation of being in a peripheral region of the world economy is that goods and services are low cost,thus making education free of cost in most of the region.

The world economic system works to the disadvantage of the periphery countries.

Geographers are attracted to the world systems theory because it incorporates space,time and politics that shape the context in which development takes place.

Port Gentile is an example of an island of development.

Define Gross National Product.Discuss the world map of per capita GNP and apply Wallerstein's three-tier regionalization (core,semi-periphery,and periphery)to divide the world into three development regions.Give examples of countries in each region.

Discuss several types of barriers to development.What can governments do to remove those barriers?

Gross domestic product measures only

Economic development in some African states (e.g.Malawi and Zimbabwe) is hampered by

Twenty thousand nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh constitute what can be called