Exam 9: Development

Figure 9.1.1, HDI -In which of the following categories of jobs does manufacturing fall?

It is estimated that more than one-fourth of children lack measles immunization in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Variation in life expectancy among developed regions is especially wide; life expectancy is only in the low sixties in Europe Africa, but is as high as high eighties in Japan and Canada.

The UN's HDI considers development to be a function of three factors: a decent standard of living, access to knowledge, and a long and healthy life.

According to the UN, a country where only a few people have high incomes, college degrees, and good health care would have a lower IHDI than a country where differences in income, level of education, and access to health care are minimal.

Figure 9.1.1, HDI -Which of the following regions has life expectancy that is comparable to developed regions?

Figure 9.1.1, HDI -Looking at Figure 9.1.1, which of the following countries has the highest HDI?

Figure 9.1.1, HDI -Which of the following is true today of the developed world?

Figure 9.1.1, HDI -This is the value of the output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, including money. that leaves and enters the country

In most developed countries, health care is a private service that is available to those who can afford it.

Among developing regions, the literacy rate exceeds 90 percent in East Asia and Latin America, but is less than 70 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Figure 9.1.1, HDI -The United Nations considers ________ to be the most critical measure of the ability of an individual to gain access to knowledge needed for development.

Developed countries spend just over $2,000 per person annually on health care, compared to approximately $1600 per person in developing countries.

How is access to knowledge or education important to development?

Figure 9.5.6, Births per 1,000 aged 15-19 -Looking at Figure 9.5.6, which of the following countries has the highest adolescent fertility rates?

Figure 9.1.1, HDI -In manufacturing, the ________ is the gross value of the product minus the costs of raw materials and energy.

Purchasing power parity is an adjustment most often made to the GDP to account for differences among countries in the cost of goods, the inherent cost of corruption and the vitality of local industries.

What are the ways in which national incomes are measured?

Now the world's second largest economy, behind only the United States, China accounts for a third of total world economic growth, and GNI per capita has risen faster there than in any other country.

Figure 9.8.4, Debt as Percent of GNI -According to Figure 9.8.4, which of the following countries has the highest debt as a percentage of GNI?