Exam 9: Development

For fear of perpetuating bad habits,international finance organizations require poor countries to undergo structural adjustment as a condition for debt relief.

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

The United Nations considers years of schooling to be the most critical measure of the ability of an individual to gain access to knowledge needed for development.

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

In Rostow's 5 stage state development model,the drive to maturity is seen as the last and most crucial stage for any country.

Which of the following is an accurate description of the labor force participation rate?

Figure 9.1.1 -In the developing world,East Asia and Latin America have some of the highest literacy at ________ per cent.

Insert Figure 9.8.4 -This region has the world's highest percentage of people living in poverty and suffering from poor health and low education levels.

Figure 9.1.1 -Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia have some of the world's literacy rates averaging ________ percent.

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

What is fair trade and what does it hope to achieve?

The Gender Inequality Index in East Asia is comparable to that of developed regions.

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

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

Expected years of schooling is generally defined as the number of years that an average 5 year old child is expected to spend with his or her education in the future.

Figure 9.5.5 -Looking at Figure 9.5.5,which of the following countries has the highest adolescent fertility rates?

With the world's second largest economy,behind only the United States,this country accounts for a third of total world economic growth

Figure 9.4.5 -The United Nations measurement of a country's gender inequality is the country's ________.

Which of the following countries has become the center for the manufacturing of automobiles and other consumer goods in Southeast Asia?

Which of the following is true of the international trade approach to development?