Deck 8: The Economic Geography of Uneven Development

Question 1

What is NOT one of the indicators accounting for global differences in development?

A) GDP per capita
B) Labor force ratios
C) Life expectancy at birth
D) Gender Inequality Index

Answer 1

D

Question 2

According to Rostow's model, what stage is the United States at?

A) 2
B) 3
C) 4
D) 5

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The African country of Cameroon is placed in stage ____ as majority of its people are employed in the _____ sector.

A) 2; secondary
B) 2; primary
C) 3; secondary
D) 3; tertiary

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Today's economies are vast and complex both in the types of goods and services being exchanged, as well as in the modes of those exchanges. What set of economic activities, often characterized as the "third sector," exist somewhere in between the market and the state?

A) Social economy
B) Communal economy
C) Sharing economy
D) Informal economy

Question 5

Divisions between each type of economy are not static, but fluctuate according to significance. Babysitting is a prime example. What babysitting description would describe the communal economy?

A) Hire a regular caregiver, record all transactions, report and pay annual taxes.
B) Apply for government-provided childcare, which requires proof of tax payments.
C) Hire a teenager to be paid an agreed sum and do not report the transaction.
D) Ask a neighbor with the unspoken understanding that they will return the favor.

Question 6

In the core-periphery model, what essential economic input flows out of the periphery and to the core?

A) capital
B) labor
C) transportation
D) raw materials

Question 7

In the core-periphery model, what country is observed to be moving from the periphery toward the core?

A) Brazil
B) Cameroon
C) United Kingdom
D) United States

Question 8

What term describes the continuation of growth that occurs as labor and capital are attracted to a leading region, which in turn, through cumulative causation, generates even more growth?

A) spreading effect
B) transitional
C) peripheral
D) backwash effect

Question 9

Why is uneven regional development considered an innate aspect of the capitalist mode of production?

A) Advantages are unevenly distributed over the Earth's surface.
B) Waves of investment occur unevenly across space and time.
C) Advantages are temporary and growth occurs eventually.
D) Waves of labor migration flow unevenly across space and time.

Question 10

According to product cycles, what is the major attraction for firms to locate near in the more mature stages of production?

A) cheap materials
B) specialized innovations
C) cheap labor
D) clustered infrastructure

Question 11

What is a thick market?

A) Market access
B) A large pool of labor and specialized firms
C) Savings in public goods provision
D) Face-to-face contact in the service sectors

Question 12

What may disrupt the clustering of production or specialized sectors in a region?

A) increase in cost of land
B) increase in congestion costs
C) increase in cost of labor
D) all of these

Question 13

Where in the United States are the declining, deindustrializing cities?

A) Silicon Valley
B) Rust belt
C) Technopoles
D) Periphery

Question 14

What type of development strategy would a government follow if they wanted to allow local firms to grow and prosper by borrowing from more efficient producers?

A) export substitution
B) protectionism
C) deindustrialization
D) free-trade policies

Question 15

What term describes countries that have successfully crafted their economic policies to move from the periphery of the global economy closer to the core?

A) development state
B) authoritarian state
C) transition state
D) expansion state

Question 16

What political system is more possible as a country becomes more developed and wealthier, provided its wealth is widely spread?

A) Authoritarian
B) Socialism
C) Confederacy
D) Democratic

Question 17

What economic element is hypermobile and flows to where costs can be minimized?

A) labor
B) transportation
C) capital
D) incomes

Question 18

What is NOT one of the economic changes that have been weakening the power of labor since the 1980s?

A) global shift
B) mechanization
C) organized unions
D) deindustrialization

Question 19

What benefits does microcredit provide to the poor in developing countries?

A) financial means for mass consumption
B) a way to supplement formal incomes
C) provides stability for saving and planning
D) financial means for commercial investment

Question 20

What represents an implication of a mass consumption economy?

A) Consumption driven by advertising and identity creation.
B) Forms of consumption come to mark social status.
C) Access to credit is essential to consumer spending.
D) All of these.