Chapter 7

Question 1

With respect to poverty in the global south

Answer 1

About one billion people live in abject poverty

Question 2

In 2000, the UN adopted the Millennium Development Goals. What does the UN hope to achieve with this project?

Answer 2

The project sets targets for basic needs measured to be achieved by 2015 and measured against 1990 data.

Question 3

UNESCO defines literacy as the ability to read and write…

Answer 3

A simple sentence.

Question 4

Recurrent epidemics and widespread diarrhea, which kill millions of children each year, results from

Answer 4

lack of access to sanitation

Question 5

Agricultural goods produced specifically for export to world markets are called

Answer 5

Cash crop

Question 6

Women taking part in the integrated and holistic approach urban development projects have helped to subsidize health and sanitation services in slums by

Answer 6

Organizing income-producing businesses and using these profits to enhance these services.

Question 7

International Law and norm

Answer 7

Obligate states to accept refugees who arrived at their borders

Question 8

A remittance is

Answer 8

Money sent home by migrants to relatives in their country of origin. They are an important source of income in poor countries.

Question 9

World system theory is based on what theoretical framework

Answer 9

Marxism

Question 10

With respect to the concept of the world system,

Answer 10

The semi periphery acts as a buffer between the core and the periphery

Question 11

How do semiperiphery regions compare with periphery regions

Answer 11

The semi periphery region grow quickly while the periphery regions grow slowly.

Question 12

The international system as we know it developed in

Answer 12

Europe

Question 13

European states colonized what part of the world

Answer 13

Most of the world’s territory

Question 14

Nonviolent resistance to British rule was the means to independence for which British colonies?

Answer 14

India due to Gandhi’s movements

Question 15

What is neo colonialism

Answer 15

The continuation of colonial exploitation without formal political control

Question 16

The central aspect of economic development is

Answer 16

Capital accumulation

Question 17

Who was the Chinese leader responsible for instituting the economic reforms that have taken place there since the mid 1970s?

Answer 17

Deng Xiaoping

Question 18

What two regions of the world has China focus on for mineral and energy imports?

Answer 18

Africa and Latin America

Question 19

Which Asian country has committed itself to economic reforms such as selling state-owned industries but was thrown into a severe economic crisis by the collapse of the Soviet Union?

Answer 19

India

Question 20

How does import substitution compare to export led growth

Answer 20

Import substitution is the development of local industries to produce items that a country has been importing. While export-led growth is a strategy that seeks to develop industries that can compete in specific niches in the world

Question 21

_____ is a fairly labor-intensive industry that does not require much capital to get started, thereby reducing the capital necessary for manufacturing.

Answer 21

Textile

Question 22

What is micro credit

Answer 22

Uses small loans to poor people, especially women, to support economic self-sufficiency

Question 23

When a company is owned partly by a foreign MNC and partly by a local firm or the host government itself, this is known as

Answer 23

A joint venture

Question 24

What country has by far been the most successful in utilizing foreign direct investment?

Answer 24

China

Question 25

When a country loses skilled workers to richer countries this is called a

Answer 25

Brain drain

Question 26

Of the 30 states of the industrialized West that make up the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the OECD, which one gives the lowest percentage of GDP in foreign aid?

Answer 26

The United States

Question 27

The _______ provides U.S. volunteers for technical development assistance in states in the global south

Answer 27

The Peace Corp

Question 28

The model of development assistance that relies on local communities to determine the needs of their own people and to carry out to the element project is the _______ model

Answer 28

Oxfam

Question 29

The model of development assistance by which short term relief (food, water, shelter), is provided to victims of natural disasters or war is the ________ model

Answer 29

Disaster relief