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Multiple choice quiz 2
Which
one
of the following is not part of development?
a) Economic growth
b) Subsistence agriculture
c) The reduction of poverty
d) Improving levels of literacy
Which
one
of the following is an example of social development?
a) People becoming more outgoing and sociable
b) Growing consumption of American and European consumer goods
c) Rising numbers of doctors and hospitals
d) Better equipped and trained armies
Which
one
of the following best describes a Millennium Development Goal?
a) A United Nations target for international sporting achievement
b) A national target which secures immediate acceptance in almost any social group
c) A global target of development to be reached over the next thousand years
d) A target set by the United Nations to achieve progress in development
The world’s richer countries are generally referred to as which
one
of the following?
a) Third world
b) Global south
c) First world
Which
one
of the following is also known as ‘Africa plus’?
a) The world’s poorest 20 countries
b) The small number of countries apart from Africa facing a lack of development
c) The three billion poorest people in the world
d) The bottom billion
Which
one
of the following theories of development argues the only route to development is for developing countries to follow the example of the USA and other developed countries?
a) Dependency theory
b) Dominant development theory
c) Modernization theory
d) World systems theory
Which
one
of the following is the best known dependency theorist?
a) Walt Whitman Rostow
b) Alexander Nobel
c) Andre Gunder Frank
d) Charles Cooley
With which
one
of the following theories are the ‘five stages of economic growth’ associated?
a) Classical Marxism
b) McDonaldization
c) World systems theory
d) Modernization theory
Which
one
of the following is NOT an explanation for the underdevelopment of Third World countries used by dependency theorists?
a) They are not sufficiently integrated into the world economic system
b) They are exploited by richer countries
c) They face problems which are imposed upon them by developed capitalist countries
d) They are often ruled by groups who exploit their own people and prevent change that would benefit the majority
The underdeveloped countries of the Third World are sometimes referred to as which
one
of the following?
a) Core nations
b) Satellite countries
c) Neo-colonial countries
d) Servant societies
Which
one
of the following was the dominant theory influencing development policies in the 1980s and 90s?
a) Neo-Marxist economic theory
b) Postmodernist theory
c) Neo-Keynsian economic theory
d) Neo-liberal economic theory
Which
one
of the following is not an IGO?
a) World Bank
b) Oxfam
c) International Monetary Fund
d) World Trade Organization
The growing interdependence of societies across the world is generally referred to as which
one
of the following?
a) Colonization
b) Urbanization
c) Industrialization
d) Globalization
e) Internationalization
Which
one
of the following best describes cultural imperialism?
a) The imposition of Western, and especially American, cultural values on non-Western cultures
b) The embracing by Third World countries of Western cultural values and products which they regard as superior to their own
c) The creation of third cultures generated by the fusion of Western and Third World cultures
The removal of cultural differences so that all cultures become increasingly similar is known as:
a) hybridization
b) pasteurization
c) homogenization
d) globalization
Neo-Marxists are likely to regard aid as which
one
of the following?
a) A generous contribution by the developed nations towards Third World development
b) A handout encouraging laziness, corruption or inefficiency in Third World countries, which undermines their initiative and ability to help themselves
c) As a form of imperialism through which rich countries exert power and control over poorer countries
Which
one
of the following is not an INGO?
a) World Trade Organization
b) Christian Aid
c) Red Cross
d) Oxfam
The movement to alter the terms of trade so that producers in developing countries achieve a higher share of the profit is known as:
a) free trade
b) the highly indebted poor countries initiative
c) trade liberalization
d) fair trade
The process whereby people move from the countryside to towns and cities is known as:
a) colonization
b) urbanization
c) desertification
d) emigration
The movement of manufacturing production from the developed world to low-wage economies in the Third World is known as:
a) industrialization
b) the new international division of labour
c) the new multi-nationalism
d) the North-South divide
