Exam 10: Development

What is the major difference between Rostow's and Wallerstein's models of development? Compare and contrast the idea of core processes and peripheral processes with Rostow's notion of progressive stages of economic advancement.

The principal structuralist alternative to Rostow's model of economic development is known as

Describe the regional inequality in the peripheral regions.Why is this a growing problem?

The overall dependency ratio measures:

A look at the maps of Nigeria,Pakistan and Brazil would show that when governments established new post-colonial capitals,they moved away from

Which of the following is not associated with core production processes?

___________________measures the total value of goods and services produced by a country's corporations and individuals both inside and outside of the country.

Subsaharan Africa has lost more than 270,000 square miles (700,000 square km)of farmland in the past 50 years due to:

Which of the following has the highest per capita Gross National Income (GNI)?

There are extremes of development within all countries.Describe places at each end of the spectrum within a developed county and compare the description with places of extreme wealth and poverty within a peripheral country.In what ways are they similar and in what ways do they differ?

_________ have low levels of human development,according to the Human Development Index (2012)?

In the US,there is no area threatened by desertification.

Which of the following country's efforts to promote education,by providing financial incentive to families to enroll and send their children to school,has had the most success?

Countries in which tier of Wallerstein's world-systems model typically have both low levels of HDI and also high younger-person dependency ratios?

Wallerstein's three-tier regionalization of the world includes all of the following except

The continuation of economic dependence even after political independence is referred to as

Establishment of government quotas on imports (e.g.cotton shirts or steel)to the U.S.has led to

Even if the Gross National Product (GNP)index is used to measure the well-being of a country,it will fail to show

Desertification in Africa is a particular problem as more than ____ of the continent is arid or semiarid.

__________ give loans to poor people,preferably women,to encourage development of small businesses.