Exam 9: Globalization, Inequality, and Development

Compare transnational corporations with traditional corporations.What kind of contribution do TNCs make to globalization?

Describe trade regionalization.Which aspect of globalization does it contradict?

The world's rich countries can help the world's poor countries achieve economic growth by cancelling their debt.

According to the textbook, which of the following theorists would be the most critical of the policies consistent with neoliberal globalization?

Tammy's professor has told the class that, if Ethiopia would simply adopt a more Western style of thinking and behaving, that nation would cease to be poor.What theory is Tammy's professor proposing?

What are strategies such as debt cancellation, tariff reduction, and foreign aid aimed at infrastructural support intended to do?

State policy is critically associated with national economic growth.

Which of the following categories forms a majority of those living in desperate poverty?

Why do some groups and organizations oppose globalization?

Weizhen works at a factory in China that manufactures shoelaces for a high-profile North American athletic shoe company.What is Weizhen a part of?

What are transnational corporations and where do they locate their activities?

What point does the story in the textbook demonstrate about travel between Canada and Europe 30 years ago and today?

Which of the following nations has realized the most significant positive change in its share of world gross domestic product between 1980 and 2010?

Which of the following do most sociologists NOT consider as source of globalization?

What effect did colonization have on colonies?

Is social cohesion of a country relevant for its economic development?

Which of the following conclusions about the relative worth of human and animal life did a World Bank official reach on basis of government subsidies and international aid?

Why do companies based in developed countries locate their production facilities in underdeveloped countries?

How does globalization influence individual-level and country-level inequalities?

What useful lesson in alleviating the plight of poor countries could the international community learn from organizations such as Oxfam?