Development Studies
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Course Introduction
Development Studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores the processes, policies, and challenges associated with economic, social, and political development, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. The course examines theories of development, global inequalities, poverty reduction strategies, and the roles of institutions such as governments, NGOs, and international organizations. Students engage with topics including sustainable development, gender and development, globalization, human rights, and the impact of history, culture, and environment on development outcomes. By analyzing case studies and contemporary issues, the course equips students with critical perspectives and practical skills to understand and contribute to development efforts worldwide.
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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) Which of the following are characteristics of the "world economy"?
A) It is a multistate economic system.
B) It was created in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
C) It includes a core of dominant countries.
D) It is based on capitalism.
E) all of the above
Answer: E
Q2) What is a core belief of poststructuralists in geography?
A) Countries must develop by passing through stages.
B) Technological progress is inevitable.
C) Poverty can be ended with governmental action.
D) There is no single objective view of the world.
E) Decision makers are always rational in their behavior.
Answer: D
Q3) The petroleum crises of 1973 and 1979 played a key role in changing the world order created by the U.S.after World War II.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Historical Development of Capitalism
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Q1) What disease wiped out one-quarter of Europe's population around 1350?
A) bubonic plague
B) influenza
C) malaria
D) measles
E) smallpox
Answer: A
Q2) Throughout Southeast Asia,what ethnic group played major roles in the economy as bankers and shopkeepers?
A) Chinese
B) Filipinos (from the Philippines)
C) Laotians
D) Malays
E) Vietnamese
Answer: A
Q3) In capitalism,the market is the primary way in which resources are organized.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Population
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Q1) Forty percent of the world's population lives in the developing world.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) What is not a factor contributing to counterurbanization?
A) retirees
B) green technology
C) people seeking relief from high-cost suburbs
D) people desiring a greater nature or native lifestyle
E) the electronic cottage
Answer: B
Q3) The percentage of babies who die before their first birthday is the ________ ________ ________.
Answer: infant mortality rate
Q4) Medical breakthroughs were a requirement for countries to pass from the 1st to the 2nd stage of the Demographic Transition.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Resources and Environment
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Q1) One major way of increasing the global food supply is by increasing the acceptability and palatability of currently inefficiently used foods.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Energy produced from deep inside the earth as water interfaces with heated rocks from the earth's core,producing steam is called hydropower.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is TRUE?
A) Present world grain production can more than adequately feed every person on earth.
B) Fish meal is the biggest threat to the world's fisheries.
C) Per acre, large-scale farms are far more productive than small-scale farms.
D) Government production programs in many developing countries ignore small farmers.
E) All of the above are true.
Q4) Fossil fuels is an example of a nonrenewable resource.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 5: Theoretical Considerations
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Q1) Which of the following organizational structure works best for companies that wish to organize according to the types of customers they serve?
A) functional orientation
B) product orientation
C) geographic orientation
D) customer orientation
E) matrix orientation
Q2) All of the following complicate locational decisions of firms EXCEPT
A) firms have only one site or situation factor.
B) more than one critical location may emerge.
C) because there are unknowns, firms cannot always precisely calculate the costs at various locations.
D) firms may select its location based on inertia.
E) amenities at a given location.
Q3) Diseconomies of scale occur when firms costs are reduced with the production of output in large quantities.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Firms that possess considerable locational mobility are known as ________.
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Chapter 6: Agriculture
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Q1) Climatic conditions affecting rural land use decisions of farmers include all of the following EXCEPT
A) soil type.
B) soil fertility.
C) slope.
D) drainage.
E) systems of agricultural production.
Q2) The top 5 farm products produced in the U.S.in order of value are
A) corn, beef, milk, chicken, soybeans.
B) beef, corn, milk soybeans, chicken.
C) corn. beef, chicken, milk, soybeans.
D) corn, chicken, beef, milk soybeans.
E) beef, soybeans, corn, chicken, milk.
Q3) The rise of market forces in agriculture transformed food into a ________,something to be bought and sold for a profit.
Q4) Peasant agriculture occurs in developing countries where the bulk of the population lives in rural areas.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Manufacturing
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Q1) Which district in the North American Manufacturing Belt has a convergence of railroad and highway transportation routes that make it readily accessible to the rest of the country?
A) the central New York and Mohawk River valley
B) Western Great Lakes, running from Detroit to Chicago
C) Pittsburgh-Cleveland-Erie
D) Middle Atlantic, including metropolitan New York
E) southern New England, especially Boston
Q2) The event that marks the birth of the modern electronics industry is the invention of the ________.
A) telegraph in 1838
B) telephone in 1876
C) moving pictures in 1877
D) radio in 1901
E) transistor in 1948
Q3) Japan imports the raw materials used for its manufacturing sector.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Russia's chief industrial region,which is centered on the trans-Siberian railroad,is the
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Chapter 8: Services
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Q1) Residential real estate has always been the bread and butter of commercial banking.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Income in services is more bifurcated than that in manufacturing.What does this sentence mean?
A) Incomes in services tend to be more seasonal.
B) Firms that produce services are more productive and therefore more wealthy than manufacturers.
C) Professional service providers generate high incomes while non-skilled and low-skilled service providers make low wages.
D) The income that firms produce from services is taxed at a higher rate than that produced from manufacturing.
E) The income that firms make from delivering services is distributed more evenly among employees than occurs in manufacturing firms.
Q3) Design companies provide producer services.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Transportation and Communications
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Q1) What invention paved the way for technical advances in transportation at the time of the Industrial Revolution?
A) the wheel
B) the steam engine
C) the gear
D) the harness
E) braking systems
Q2) Wireless technologies have enable more developed countries to "leap-frog."
A)True
B)False
Q3) The work performed via electronic lines of communication,including internet,either at home or via telework centers is called ________.
Q4) The "digital divide" hits more developed countries the hardest.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Offices organized by firms where telecommuters may work,facilitating telework but not from the home are called ________ ________.
Q6) The underlying principle of distance decay is the ________ ________
Q7) The most rapidly diffusing technology in world history is ___ ________.
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Chapter 10: Cities and Urban Economies
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Q1) The outermost edges of metropolitan areas are called suburbs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The contemporary Western city has been influenced by large corporations in all of the following ways EXCEPT
A) corporate buildings dominate skylines.
B) corporations have needed to find ways to absorb their surplus by creating new markets.
C) they, along with governments, have poured resources into urban renewal projects.
D) corporations have needed to find ways to absorb their surplus by commodifying social life.
E) they have been responsible for much of the economic devastation occurring in most Western cities.
Q3) The ________ ________ describes the process by which houses pass from one household to another.
Q4) 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) A child in which of the following countries would have the smallest environmental footprint?
A) Australia
B) Namibia
C) Brazil
D) Canada
E) Italy
Q2) Which of the following orderings (going from highest to lowest)is correct with respect to the percentage of U.S.GDP?
A) (1)Government; (2)Consumer purchases; (3)Investment; (4)Foreign trade
B) (1)Investment; (2)Government; (3)Consumer purchases; (4)Foreign trade
C) (1)Investment; (2)Consumer purchases; (3)Government; (4)Foreign trade
D) (1)Consumer purchases; (2)Investment; (3)Foreign trade; (4)Government
E) (1)Government; (2)Consumer purchases; (3)Foreign trade; (4)Investment
Q3) Consumerism primarily started in Britain and the U.S.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ________ is the mechanism for funneling people's consciousness to the commodity to generate new wants and desires.
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Chapter 12: International Trade and Investment
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Q1) Free trade is best from the standpoint of
A) efficiency.
B) profitability.
C) fairness.
D) labor.
E) raw materials.
Q2) Internal labor disputes that interrupt production can be a barrier to exporting.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is the most inclusive transnational organization in the world?
A) World Bank
B) World Trade Organization (WTO)
C) European Union (EU)
D) Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
E) United Nations (UN)
Q4) ________ is the lead FDI investor in the U.S.
Q5) NAFTA was approved by the U.S.Congress in 1994.
A)True
B)False
Q6) In the U.S.,the state of ________ receives the most FDI.
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Chapter 13: International Trade Patterns
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Q1) Which of the following is one of the most important markets for U.S.information services among the industrialized countries?
A) China
B) South Korea
C) Canada
D) Mexico
E) Brazil
Q2) ________ ________ is the world leader in grain and feed production.
Q3) OPEC countries recorded a meteoric rise in the value of their exports in the 1970s and again in the 2000s as the international demand for energy rose.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Canada cannot attain the economies of scale necessary for highly efficient plants and therefore,exports many of its goods.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Asia is Canada's top trading partner.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Development and Underdevelopment in the Developing World
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Q1) To restructure a developing world country's debt,the International Monetary Fund (IMF)typically wants "structural adjustment" in that country.What does this term mean?
A) completely exchanging the domestic currency for U.S. dollars, Euros, or Japanese Yen
B) a renewed focus on agriculture and limiting the size of cities
C) increases in government spending on health care, education, and care for the elderly
D) reductions in government subsidies to the poor and devaluations of currencies
E) mandating the total turnover of domestic banking to banks in the developed world, which often means a complete loss of savings for citizens of that country
Q2) ________ ________ ________ is a more meaningful measure of income than GDP.
Q3) Of the East Asian countries below,which is the poorest?
A) China
B) North Korea
C) South Korea
D) Taiwan
E) all of the above are equally impoverished
Q4) ________ experiences the highest rates of infant mortality.
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