Exam 9: Globalization, Inequality, and Development

According to dependency theorist,multinational corporations and rich countries continued their exploitation of the poor countries in the postcolonial period by

Almost all sociologists agree that the dependency theorists are correct on one score.Since about 1500,Spain,Portugal,Holland,Britain,France,Italy,the United States,Japan and Russia treated the world's poor with brutality to enrich themselves.

Modernization theorists want the poor countries to revolt against the rich countries,throw up barriers to free trade and investment,and find their own paths to economic well-being.

A ____ is a worldwide network of labor and production processes whose end result is a finished commodity.

Neoliberal globalization resembles which theory of a generation ago?

Transnational corporations are different from traditional corporations in what way?

Indicators which point to the globalization of the planet include all BUT which of these?

Global ____ has increased tremendously since industrialization and is still increasing in some respects today.

Imagine a place in the world that has not been affected by globalization.How would it differ from most of the rest of the world?

All of the following are indicators of globalization EXCEPT:

According to Table 9.1 "Indicators of Globalization,Early 1980s - Circa 2003" in the textbook,which indicator showed the most change from 1980-81 to 1998-2003?

Explain the legacy of colonialism still at work in today's global world.

In 2002,foreign aid to the world's developing countries was only ____ the amount that the developing countries paid to Western banks in loan interest.

____ is the division of the world into different and often competing economic,political and cultural areas.

Which is NOT a new means of colonization today?

How do dependency theorists view economic underdevelopment?

In the 1970s,the antismoking campaign:

Which of the following was (were)a reaction against globalization?

Crushing interest payments leave governments of poor countries with too little money for development.

Today,____ and ____ maintain among the highest barriers to international trade in the world.