Development Studies
Final Exam
Course Introduction
Development Studies explores the complexities of economic, social, and political change in developing countries, examining key theories, policies, and practices that shape development at local, national, and global levels. The course analyzes critical issues such as poverty, inequality, sustainable development, globalization, governance, and the role of international institutions. Through interdisciplinary approaches, students gain insights into the challenges and opportunities facing developing societies, and learn to critically assess the effectiveness of various development strategies and interventions.
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The World Economy Geography Business Development 6th Edition by Frederick P. Stutz
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Chapter 1: Economic Geography: An Introduction
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Q1) According to the authors of your textbook,national and state borders have become less important because of globalization.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) In which of the following cities would a transnational corporation be LEAST likely to have its headquarters?
A) Toronto, Canada
B) Berlin, Germany
C) Beijing, China
D) Tokyo, Japan
E) London, England
Answer: C
Q3) What system involves free markets with minimal government intervention?
A) bordeaux
B) coup d'etat
C) laissez faire
D) placido
E) torreon
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: The Historical Development of Capitalism
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Q1) Which is NOT TRUE regarding the early phases of the Industrial Revolution?
A) Some scholars believe the first textile factories were in Belgium.
B) It started in the same place where capitalism was created.
C) Britain became the world's first industrialized nation.
D) Child labor was common.
E) Britain had large deposits of coal.
Answer: B
Q2) What is the one country that was not colonized by Europe?
A) Australia
B) India
C) Japan
D) Malaysia
E) Philippines
Answer: C
Q3) Property ownership is the key characteristic of capitalism.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The level of output generated by a given volume of input is called ________.
Answer: productivity
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Chapter 3: Population
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Q1) What is NOT a characteristic of the second stage of demographic transition?
A) Medical breakthroughs and hospitals are required for a society to move into the second stage.
B) Overall death rates decline.
C) Infant mortality rates are lower than in the first stage.
D) Life expectancies increase as compared to the first stage.
E) The natural growth rate is higher than the first stage.
Answer: A
Q2) Zero population growth is most common among developed countries.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Tuberculosis is most likely to be the cause of death in an advanced industrial country.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The number of years that it takes a population to double given a particular rate of growth is the ________ ________.
Answer: doubling time
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Chapter 4: Resources and Environment
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Q1) )What region of the United States is most impacted by acid rain?
A) Deep South (Alabama, Mississippi)
B) Northeast (New York, Pennsylvania)
C) Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington)
D) Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico)
E) western Midwest (Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas)
Q2) The Middle East has approximately two-thirds of the world's oil reserves.What group of countries below also accounts for significant reserves of oil?
A) Mexico, Venezuela, Russia, Nigeria
B) India, Pakistan, Somalia, Kenya
C) Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Philippines
D) Argentina, Jamaica, Portugal, Morocco
E) South Africa, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, New Zealand
Q3) Which is NOT TRUE regarding open-pit mining operations?
A) They are capital-intensive enterprises.
B) They do enormous damage to the local environment they are huge enterprises.
C) They are huge enterprises.
D) They are incredibly deadly for miners.
E) They are efficient enterprises.
Q4) A ________ is a naturally occurring inorganic substance in the earth's crust.
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Chapter 5: Theoretical Considerations
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Q1) ________ is the most important determinant of a firm's location in most industries.
Q2) The increasing globalization of production
A) was accompanied by an new international division of labor. B) was possibly only because the largest corporations stayed put in the U.S. C) had little effect on the deindustrialization process in the industrial nations. D) strengthened the power of unions in advanced economies.
E) followed along the same trends as the old imperial system.
Q3) When the cost of shipping raw materials is higher than the cost of of shipping the final product,firms tend to locate near the raw materials.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What entity is the largest single employer in the United States?
A) Walmart
B) General Motors
C) McDonald's
D) U.S. federal government
E) CitiBank
Q5) Machinery,equipment,and plant buildings are examples of ________ capital.
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Chapter 6: Agriculture
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Q1) Certain U.S.dairy farms produce more milk than cheese and butter because
A) milk is cheap to produce
B) according to international tastes, American cheese is not very tasty
C) their milk can be transported quickly to large markets in the U.S.
D) because they are labor-intensive operations
E) none of the above
Q2) The rise of market forces in agriculture transformed food into a ________,something to be bought and sold for a profit.
Q3) What was the Third Agricultural Revolution?
A) development of hunting and gathering societies
B) formation of a global agricultural system
C) domestication of plants and animals
D) industrialization of Agriculture
E) establishment of the World Trade Organization
Q4) Most cropping systems in the U.S.rely on corn because it is the crop with the highest value.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The second most important crop in mixed crop and livestock farming is ________.
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Q6) The locations near cities where cattle are fattened in pens are called ________.
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Chapter 7: Manufacturing
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Q1) A computer the size of one's fingernail used for applications,including calculators,electric typewriters,computers,industrial robots,and aircraft guidance systems is called a
Q2) What resource is critical to making basic research in biotechnology commercially viable?
A) land
B) venture capital
C) labor
D) market
E) government research funding
Q3) What manufacturing region of North America is known for producing textiles?
A) Gulf Coast, from southeastern Texas to Alabama
B) Los Angeles and San Diego
C) San Francisco Bay
D) Southeastern, from Virginia through Alabama
E) Pacific Northwest
Q4) To transform raw materials into goods that satisfy wants and needs is ________.
Q5) The country of ________ is now the largest producer of greenhouse gases.
Q6) When a small number of firms or producers control a market,and can affect market price,this control is called ________.
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Chapter 8: Services
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Q1) Ownership and control of firms began to first be separated in the mid-1800s.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements about the services labor market is most accurate?
A) Wages and salaries in services are low across the board.
B) There is strong motivation to mechanize services when wages are low.
C) The demand for health care professionals is falling.
D) Services tend to be labor intensive.
E) A large share of new service jobs offer good benefits.
Q3) Two out of every three business and professional service jobs in the U.S.are located in large urban areas.
A)True
B)False
Q4) As stated in the text,women make 70% of what men make because of rampant discrimination in the labor force.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Finance is not a single industry,but a set of closely related sectors that revolve around ________.
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Chapter 9: Transportation and Communications
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Q1) According to the text,internet censorship is the world's most severe in ________.
Q2) During what period did transportation policy shift to deregulation and privatization?
A) It was never regulated.
B) 1930s
C) 1950s
D) 1970s
E) It is still regulated
Q3) Truck carriers have low terminal costs largely because A) the price of gasoline fluctuates frequently.
B) relative to other carriers they are less flexible.
C) they do not have to pay for provision and maintenance of roads.
D) they cannot compete in the global commodity traffic.
E) none of the above
Q4) With increasing distance,there is reduction in the flow or movement among places.This is called the ________ ________ effect.
Q5) Transport costs that must be paid regardless of the distance involved are ________ costs.
Q6) The underlying principle of distance decay is the ________ ________
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Chapter 10: Cities and Urban Economies
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Q1) People whose jobs involve collecting,processing and transmitting information in novel ways are called the ________ class.
Q2) Global cities are the largest in terms of population.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Conservative explanations for the inner-city ghetto focus on
A) deindustrialization.
B) welfare and public assistance.
C) lack of education.
D) a rise in out-of-wedlock births.
E) poverty.
Q4) The non-basic sector in cities is ________-oriented.
A) resource
B) government
C) locally
D) export
E) import
Q5) Urban core areas are called CBDs (Central Business Districts).
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Consumption
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Q1) Commodity chains include such diverse products as A) coffee.
B) gold.
C) meat.
D) all of the above
E) A and B only
Q2) Rising consumerism threatened the principle of charity,which is embodied by the phrase,"Waste not,want not."
A)True
B)False
Q3) The model of human behavior widely used in neoclassical economics,that is,an all-knowing,self-interested individual who behaves rationally is called ________
Q4) The circular model basically says that
A) most people work in order to produce, and produce in order to live.
B) most people produce in order to consume, and consume in order to survive.
C) most people produce and consume in a never-ending cycle fueled by marketing.
D) most people work in order to consume, and consume in order to live.
E) most people consume more than they produce.
Q5) Consumption levels inadequate to meet basic human needs is called ________.
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Chapter 12: International Trade and Investment
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Q1) Barter occurs nowhere on earth now.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Regional economic integration occurs when sovereign nations form a single economic region.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The European Union is an example of a free-trade agreement.
A)True
B)False
Q4) When did the U.S.begin to experience a trade deficit?
A) 1770s
B) 1860s
C) 1920s
D) 1970s
E) 1990s
Q5) The most important aspect of the WTO to the U.S.concerns ________ ________ ________ in which the U.S.has a strong competitive advantage.
Q6) The majority of of FDI in the U.S.originates in the continent of ________.
Q7) The largest exporter of cars and trucks to the U.S.is ________.
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Chapter 13: International Trade Patterns
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Q1) In trade,India is dominated by its former colonial overseer,Britain.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In terms of dollar value,what is the largest category of world exports today?
A) manufactured goods
B) agricultural products
C) minerals and fuels
D) services
E) transportation
Q3) Great Britain is the chief trading partner of most Latin American countries.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What Asian country established "special economic zones" (SEZs)to produce goods for world markets?
A) Taiwan
B) South Korea
C) Japan
D) Thailand
E) China
Q5) In the U.S.,________ account for 1/4 of GDP and 30% of total exports.
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Chapter 14: Development and Underdevelopment in the Developing World
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Q1) What is the best description of activities of the primary sector?
A) assembling raw materials and manufacturing
B) extraction of materials from the earth
C) provision of services, including wholesaling and retailing, and transportation
D) management of information
E) none of the above
Q2) The Philippines is the only country of Southeast Asia that is mired in poverty as a result of the Spanish land grant system and endemic government corruption.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The policies advocated by the International Monetary Fund as requirements for debt restructuring are called ________ ________.
Q4) What is a criticism of remittances?
A) They drain resources in the developed world.
B) They are often used for conspicuous consumption.
C) Municipal governments often tax them at exorbitant rates.
D) They spread global inequality.
E) They hinder rural-to-urban migration.
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