Exam 14: Development and Underdevelopment in the Developing World

What underdeveloped world region has economies that rely on low-priced primary-sector goods for export,such as coffee,bananas,orange juice,beef,soybeans,and mineral ores?

In India,which segment of the population benefitted the most from the Green Revolution?

What is the literacy rate?

What is the best description of activities of the tertiary sector?

What does GDP fail to measure?

Export-led industrialization is a trade strategy,now largely discredited,that puts high tariffs on imports as a way to stimulate domestic production of goods.

In what area(s)are women not very economically active outside the home because of religious prohibitions?

Israel is the Middle East's most economically advanced country.

The percentage of people employed in the primary sector is highest in emerging markets.

Export-Led Industrialization development strategy involves the production of domestic manufactured goods to replace imports.

Africa's economies are largely centered on the production of textiles.

Underdevelopment as a condition for some countries in the world economy is

Which of the following is NOT TRUE regarding urbanization?

________ ________ is industrialization based on the manufacture of products for export.

What factor would Thomas Malthus,as well as those who are Malthusians,believe to be most important in explaining problems in less developed countries?

Which of the following is TRUE about China?

The favelas of Brazil are examples of squatter settlements.

________ ________ is a trade strategy,now largely discredited,that puts high tariffs on imports as a way to stimulate domestic production of goods.

Which of the following is TRUE?

Worldwide,today there are more obese people than malnourished ones.