Exam 9: Development

Figure 9.4.5, Health Care Expenditures per Capita -Looking at Figure 9.4.5, which of the following regions spends more money on health care per capita?

What is the World Trade Organization and what are some of the criticisms against it?

Figure 9.4.5, Health Care Expenditures per Capita -The United Nations measurement of a country's gender inequality is the country's ________.

Which of the following countries has not joined the WTO?

East Asia has one of the lowest adolescent pregnancy rates in the world today.

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

Latin America has the world's poorest score under the UN's Gender Inequality Index.

Figure 9.8.4, Debt as Percent of GNI -________ is trade that protects small businesses and workers.

The UN's Human Development Index (HDI) takes into account three factors. These are:

The literacy rate is the percentage of a country's people who can read up the grade 12 level and and write meaningful letters.

Which of the following two organizations were conceived to promote development after World War II and to avoid a repetition of the disastrous economic policies that contributed to the Great Depression?

Figure 9.1.1, HDI -The United Nations measures the average income in countries through a complex index called:

Figure 9.5.6, Births per 1,000 aged 15-19 -Maternal mortality ratio is the number of women who die giving birth per ________ births

For most of the twentieth century, the international trade model was the more popular of the development alternatives.

Figure 9.4.5, Health Care Expenditures per Capita -On average, developed countries spend about $________ annually per capita on health care.

South Asia is the region with the world's highest percentage of people living in poverty and suffering from poor health and low educational levels.

What is human development index and how does it differ from inequality-adjusted HDI?

Figure 9.8.4, Debt as Percent of GNI -Created by the UN in 1980, this is an indicator of the level of development for each country. It combines income, literacy, education, and life expectancy.

Investment made by a foreign company in the economy of another country is known as foreign direct investment (FDI). World FDI has largely remained flat at $7 trillion since 1990.

There are two sets of standards that distinguish fair trade. These are fair trade labelling organizations International (FLO) and standards applied to workers on farms and in factories.