Question 1

One measure of the biologically productive area needed to provide the resources and absorb the waste of a region or country is its

Accepted Answer

A)  ecological footprint. 
B)  carrying capacity.

Question 2

Match the description with one or the other group of countries.
-high debt service relative to GDP

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A) Core countries 
B) Peripheral countries

Question 3

W.W.Rostow's model of economic development encourages the perception that every country is striving for and moving toward

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A)  high mass consumption. 
B)  post-industrialism. 
C)  socialism. 
D)  economic self-sufficiency. 
E)  democracy.

Question 4

Technology systems

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A)  contain interrelated transportation, production, and energy technologies. 
B)  tend to last for several decades. 
C)  are eventually replaced by more sophisticated systems. 
D)  shift the balance of advantages between regions. 
E)  all of the above

Question 5

Core-periphery inequalities are commonly found within core countries.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

In contrast to the others,________ has been fairly successful with its program growth poles,which they call technopoles.

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A)  France. 
B)  Italy. 
C)  United States. 
D)  Soviet Union. 
E)  Spain.

Question 7

Canals were still being built in Britain at a time when they were being replaced by railroads in Canada and the United States.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Maquiladoras (manufacturing firms that import components for assembly and re-export)are found

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A)  in Mexico, clustered near the U.S. border. 
B)  in Canada, clustered in and around Quebec. 
C)  throughout Spanish-speaking communities of North America. 
D)  throughout the world's periphery. 
E)  in the Philippines, in export-processing zones.

Question 9

In the global office,ancillary services such as banking and customer services are no longer locally oriented but have been decentralized.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

The term "Third World"

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A)  has been in use since the Age of Exploration. 
B)  is a Cold War term referring to the periphery. 
C)  is used for countries that practice neither capitalism or socialism. 
D)  refers to the world's politically neutral countries. 
E)  refers to those countries that are neither in the North nor the South.

Question 11

Present the basic characteristics (including advantages offered)of export processing zones.

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The answer of Present the basic characteristics (including advantages offered)of...

Question 12

Typically,traditional international outsourcing in the tertiary sector involves

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A)  routine producers. 
B)  symbolic analysts.

Question 13

According to Nobel prize-winning economist Gunnar Myrdal,cumulative causation and the spiral of local economic growth in one area tends to cause negative impacts in others called

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A)  backwash effects. 
B)  agglomeration diseconomies. 
C)  deindustrialization. 
D)  spread effects. 
E)  external economies.

Question 14

The International Energy Agency estimates that developing-country energy consumption will increase dramatically,lifting total world energy demand by almost 50 percent by 2020.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

The spiral of cumulative causation in core regions and countries is linked to

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A)  import substitution in the periphery. 
B)  backwash effects in the periphery. 
C)  spread effects from the periphery. 
D)  agglomeration diseconomies in the periphery. 
E)  infrastructure in the core.

Question 16

Using a "point by point" approach,contrast the traditional approach to economic growth with one that integrates the goals of sustainable development,known as the new economy.

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The answer of Using a "point by point" approach,contrast the...

Question 17

NICs are best exemplified by

Accepted Answer

A)  Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, Samoa, and Tanzania. 
B)  Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia. 
C)  Canada, Finland, Russia, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. 
D)  China, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico, Thailand, India, and Indonesia. 
E)  Amsterdam, New York, Tokyo, London, Moscow, and Beijing.

Question 18

The Fair Trade movement is designed to fairly compensate farmers -mostly in the periphery - for their efforts.In this way,he or she gets ________ of an average fairly traded 100-gram chocolate bar sold for $3.10 CND.

Accepted Answer

A)  9 cents 
B)  29 cents 
C)  90 cents 
D)  $1.09 
E)  45 cents

Question 19

The withdrawal of investments from low-yielding activities and regions to other,higher yielding activities and regions is known as

Accepted Answer

A)  creative destruction. 
B)  cumulative causation.

Question 20

Which of the following events forced a major re-examination of corporate strategies in the 1970s?

Accepted Answer

A)  a recession triggered by a massive increase in the price of crude oil 
B)  the Yom Kippur war of 1973 in the Middle East 
C)  major economic slowdown as a consequence of the end of the Vietnam War 
D)  high inflation associated to a strong growth in the global economy 
E)  the collapse of oil prices resulting from dramatic economic slowdown

Exam 7: Geographies of Economic Development

One measure of the biologically productive area needed to provide the resources and absorb the waste of a region or country is its

Match the description with one or the other group of countries. -high debt service relative to GDP

W.W.Rostow's model of economic development encourages the perception that every country is striving for and moving toward

Technology systems

Core-periphery inequalities are commonly found within core countries.

In contrast to the others,________ has been fairly successful with its program growth poles,which they call technopoles.

Canals were still being built in Britain at a time when they were being replaced by railroads in Canada and the United States.

Maquiladoras (manufacturing firms that import components for assembly and re-export) are found

In the global office,ancillary services such as banking and customer services are no longer locally oriented but have been decentralized.

The term "Third World"

Present the basic characteristics (including advantages offered)of export processing zones.

Typically,traditional international outsourcing in the tertiary sector involves

According to Nobel prize-winning economist Gunnar Myrdal,cumulative causation and the spiral of local economic growth in one area tends to cause negative impacts in others called

The International Energy Agency estimates that developing-country energy consumption will increase dramatically,lifting total world energy demand by almost 50 percent by 2020.

The spiral of cumulative causation in core regions and countries is linked to

Using a "point by point" approach,contrast the traditional approach to economic growth with one that integrates the goals of sustainable development,known as the new economy.

NICs are best exemplified by

The Fair Trade movement is designed to fairly compensate farmers -mostly in the periphery - for their efforts.In this way,he or she gets ________ of an average fairly traded 100-gram chocolate bar sold for $3.10 CND.

The withdrawal of investments from low-yielding activities and regions to other,higher yielding activities and regions is known as

Which of the following events forced a major re-examination of corporate strategies in the 1970s?