Exam 9: Economic Development and Underdevelopment

Sanderson and Alderson use the word undevelopment to refer to societies:

According to Sanderson and Alderson, economic dependency may produce underdevelopment through:

Sanderson and Alderson are highly critical of Rostow's version of modernization theory, butthey endorse David Landes's version.

The underdeveloped countries have been historically specialized in terms of:

Sanderson and Alderson predict that:

Semiperipheral societies tend to have higher levels of democratization than peripheral societies, and both tend to be more democratic than core societies.

Write an essay in which you explain to a typical Western family the difficulties they could expect to face if they suddenly had to switch roles with a typical Third World family.

The soft dependency theorists:

Brazil is often thought of as a particularly good example of what the soft dependency theorists call:

Amin argues that disarticulation:periphery::articulation:core.

According to dependency theory, the first historical stage of economic dependency was:

In colonial times, Brazil's major product was:

The region of the world that is currently experiencing the greatest amount of economic development and expansion is:

Which of the following have been important factors in the rapid economic development of the East Asian NICs since the 1950s?

China has succeeded in attracting an enormous amount of foreign investment since 1980.

Of the strategies that Wallerstein has proposed for the ascent of a nation in the capitalist world-economy, is seen as a possibility during periods of contraction, whereas is a possibility during periods of economic expansion:

Sanderson and Alderson claims that Rostow's evolutionary interpretation of the causes of development and underdevelopment:

Latin America is, compared to Asia and Africa:

Sanderson and Alderson are strong advocates of modernization theory.

Between 1980 and 1995, China was the fastest growing economy in the world, averaging 10% growth per year.