Deck 4: Development, Urbanization, Migration, and Quality of Life

Question 1

Overseas Chinese investment dominates all of the following economies EXCEPT:

A)South Korea
B)China
C)Vietnam
D)Indonesia

Answer 1

A

Question 2

A major portion of Asia's poor can be found in:

A)Uplands
B)Fishing communities
C)Congested urban areas
D)All of the above
E)None of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which is the better measure of development?

A)Per capita income
B)Purchasing power parity
C)Human development index
D)Rich-poor gap
E)Corruption perception index

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The middle class is expected to make up _____ percent of the global population in 2030.

A)6
B)15
C)25
D)35
E)50

Question 5

Purchasing Power Parity:

A)Includes non-monetary transactions
B)Recognizes bartering as a type of purchase
C)Assumes that national income is evenly distributed
D)All of the above
E)None of the above

Question 6

According to Transparency International,Japan has a corruption perception index of 7.7 and Cambodia has a corruption perception index of 2.0.This means that Japan is perceived to be _____ corrupt than Cambodia.

A)More
B)Less
C)Just as

Question 7

According to Dependency Theory:

A)Cores can only grow through greater international investment.
B)Cores can only grow through exploitation of peripheries.
C)Trade is mutually beneficial
D)All of the above
E)None of the above

Question 8

While the percentage of poor people is decreasing,absolute numbers of poor people are rising because of:

A)Urbanization
B)Rural-urban migration
C)Population growth
D)Corruption

Question 9

A hallmark of economic restructuring in the late 20th century is the:

A)Intensification of industries in regional cores
B)Reduction of employment in labor-intensive industries
C)Relocation of resource extraction to coastal regions
D)Movement of labor-intensive manufacturing to peripheral regions
E)Concentration of labor-intensive heavy industries to foreign countries

Question 10

Which of the following countries has multiple cores?

A)The Philippines
B)Indonesia
C)Malaysia
D)South Korea
E)India

Question 11

The Gini Index measures:

A)Relative income equality within a country
B)Relative income equality between countries
C)Income per person within countries
D)Income per person between countries

Question 12

A commonly accepted level of the poverty level is _____ dollars a day.

A)2
B)5
C)10
D)15
E)25

Question 13

One country that had managed to expand its economy despite the 2007 economic crisis is:

A)The United States
B)Japan
C)Thailand
D)Malaysia
E)India

Question 14

The most important fact regarding poverty is that it is:

A)An evolutionary progression
B)A socioeconomic phenomenon
C)A participatory phenomenon
D)Multidimensional
E)Dichotomous

Question 15

The modern version of microcredit in Asia was instituted in:
a)China
b)India
c)Bangladesh
d)Japan
e)Bhutan

Question 16

The global economic downturn of 2007 has hurt ____ the most.
a)Banks
b)Exports
c)Men
d)Women
e)Asia

Question 17

Funds sent by a foreign worker to her home country are called:

A)Transfers
B)Remittances
C)Payments
D)Foreign aid
E)Monetary assistance

Question 18

Recent thinking regarding poverty is that it is best defined by:

A)Charitable organizations
B)The World Bank and the United Nations
C)Educated experts
D)All of the above
E)None of the above

Question 19

The Human Development Index measures a country's achievements in:

A)Health
B)Knowledge
C)Standard of living
D)All of the above
E)None of the above

Question 20

Some scholars claim that NGOs are really "soft imperialism" because:

A)Their enterprises tend to be family owned
B)They are controlled by Overseas Chinese
C)They bind sources and destinations to structural adjustment programs
D)All of the above
E)None of the above

Question 21

Underemployment is a Western notion referring to:

A)Rural-urban migration to world cities
B)Utilization of semi-skilled workers in technopoles
C)The general pattern of employment in the urban hierarchy
D)Underutilization of labor in developing countries
E)Overutilization of labor in developing countries

Question 22

Across the region,the proportion of city dwellers living in slums is _____ percent.

A)10
B)20
C)33
D)45
E)50

Question 23

The largest number of child laborers in Asia reside in:

A)Bangladesh
B)Nepal
C)China
D)Indonesia
E)Thailand

Question 24

Today,companies try to break up their products into specialized disassemblies to reduce costs and production time.This is referred to as:

A)A growth triangle
B)Economic reductionism
C)A supply chain
D)Quality control
E)Feminization of labor

Question 25

Trans-border development regions involve:

A)Economic development zones
B)Export processing zones
C)Adjacent political units
D)All of the above
E)None of the above

Question 26

Urban primacy means that:

A)A country is at least 80 percent urban.
B)The capital is the largest city.
C)The population of the largest city is greater than the combined population of the next three largest cities.
D)All of the above

Question 27

More than half of Asia's largest cities are in:

A)Japan and South Korea
B)Indonesia and Thailand
C)India and Japan
D)China and Japan
E)China and India

Question 28

Asian urbanization rates are second highest in the world after:

A)North America
B)Europe
C)South America
D)Africa

Question 29

In economic development zones,most workers are:

A)Unemployed
B)Underemployed
C)Bonded
D)Male
E)Female

Question 30

Despite government programs,most shelter for the poor derives from:

A)Private builders
B)Private corporations
C)The formal sector
D)The informal sector

Question 31

The shadow economy is also known as the _____ market.

A)Informal
B)Underground
C)Common
D)Gray
E)Black

Question 32

The World Health Organization considers that by 2020 _____ will be the third largest cause of death for the urban poor.

A)Disease
B)Murder
C)Flooding
D)Road traffic
E)Pollution

Question 33

Health differences are most extreme between:

A)City and countryside
B)The urban middle-class and the urban poor
C)Cities and small towns
D)Urban centers and small villages
E)The elite and the middle-class

Question 34

The most populated city in Asia is:

A)Mumbai
B)Tokyo
C)Karachi
D)Shanghai
E)Hong Kong

Question 35

When a child's labor is pledged to a moneylender it is called:

A)Underemployment
B)Forced labor
C)Domestic labor
D)All of the above
E)None of the above

Question 36

Cities grow by:

A)Natural increase
B)Rural-urban migration
C)Accretion of adjacent settlements
D)All of the above
E)None of the above

Question 37

Which of the following is NOT a primate city at the national level?

A)Seoul
B)Tokyo
C)Bangkok
D)Shanghai

Question 38

Environmental refugees' migration flows are related to:

A)Natural disasters
B)Climatic factors
C)Global warming
D)All of the above
E)None of the above

Question 39

Despite increasing numbers of vehicles,city officials in _____ have managed to reduce air pollution by 20-50 percent.

A)Hanoi
B)Jakarta
C)Bangkok
D)Singapore
E)Manila

Question 40

The informal sector of an economy:

A)Functions at a large scale
B)Is characterized by permanent employment
C)Has set hours and weekly wages
D)All of the above
E)None of the above

Question 41

Chain migration often creates _____ in cities.

A)Ethnic enclaves
B)Foreign-born communities
C)Concentrations of particular occupational groups
D)All of the above
E)None of the above

Question 42

Overseas Chinese expand their businesses in Asia mainly by acquiring and enlarging existing companies.

Question 43

Growth of unregulated and illegal activities is difficult to trace because they are not permanently based at a particular place.

Question 44

The North-South dichotomy postulates that lack of development in the southern hemisphere is at least partly a function of development in the northern hemisphere.

Question 45

All countries agree as to what "development" is.The problem is putting it into practice.

Question 46

One in three residents in _____ is a non-citizen.

A)Japan
B)The Philippines
C)Taiwan
D)All of the above
E)None of the above

Question 47

Foreign direct investment in Asia has declined since 1991.

Question 48

NGOs tend to focus their efforts in core regions.

Question 49

Accurate statistics on slum populations are difficult to get mainly because the poor do not want to admit their poverty to officials.

Question 50

The vast majority of Grameen Bank's loans go to women.

Question 51

The majority of labor migrants are:

A)Young females
B)Young males
C)Sex workers
D)Domestic workers
E)Factory workers

Question 52

In a cartogram of relative wealth,Taiwan would appear larger than China.

Question 53

Because there is more space for expansion,transportation and other infrastructural phenomena increase as distance from a core increases.

Question 54

Cities house core elite groups who hold relatively more power than peripheral rural populations.

Question 55

More than half of Asians live in mega-cities.

Question 56

In most Asian countries,the majority of people rely on community phones.

Question 57

Most foreign aid is bilateral.

Question 58

As development ensues,social and economic protest movements are decreasing in number.

Question 59

In developed countries such as South Korea and Japan,populations in the largest cities are expected to decline.

Question 60

Most overseas Chinese live in Southeast Asia.

Question 61

Globalization has led to one of the largest migrations in human history.

Question 62

Interior regions are growing faster than coastal regions as masses of poor people leave urban slums for better opportunities in the countryside.

Question 63

Brain drain refers to the process whereby developing countries lose their most educated people to jobs overseas.

Question 64

Asia is the primary source for international labor migration.

Question 65

Real or perceived opportunities in other places are pull-factors in migration.