Matching
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Identifying Key Terms
Match each term with the correct
statement below. a. | arable | f. | infrastructure | b. | development | g. | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | c. | foreign direct investment
(FDI) | h. | perestroika | d. | foreign portfolio
investment | i. | privatization | e. | glasnost | j. | World Bank |
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the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function
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the establishment of an enterprise by a foreigner
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the process by which a nation improves the economic, political, and social
well-being of its people
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suitable for producing crops
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organization formed to stabilize international exchange rates and facilitate
development
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the sale or transfer of state-owned businesses to individuals
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Soviet leader Gorbachev’s plan for economic restructuring
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a policy of political “openness” introduced into the Soviet Union
in the late 1980s
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Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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The primary measure of a country’s development is
a. | average income. | b. | average life expectancy. | c. | per capita gross
domestic product. | d. | percentage of the population with a college
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A high level of energy consumption indicates
a. | a high population growth rate. | b. | a high level of
industrialization. | c. | a high level of infant
mortality. | d. | a large labor force working mainly in subsistence
agriculture. |
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The calculating of a country’s population growth rate takes into account
all of the following EXCEPT
a. | the number of deaths in a given year. | b. | the number of people who marry in a given
year. | c. | the number of births in a given year. | d. | the number of people who move to a country in a
given year. |
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The average person in a developed nation
a. | is older than 65. | b. | is younger than 10. | c. | is older than the
average person in a less developed nation. | d. | is more likely to have children than a person
in a less developed nation. |
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“Brain drain” occurs when
a. | a young girl in an LDC stops attending school after eighth grade. | b. | an engineer leaves
her LDC to work in a developed nation. | c. | a boy in an LDC decides not to attend college
because his help is needed to run the family business. | d. | a student from an LDC receives a college
education in a developed nation and then returns home to work in his own
country. |
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Factors that have contributed to limiting development in poor nations include
all of the following EXCEPT
a. | relying on a free market economy to stimulate economic growth. | b. | spending money on
weapons at the expense of infrastructure. | c. | government leaders who accumulate personal
fortunes at the expense of their nations. | d. | a history of colonialism that prevented
countries from producing their own goods. |
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The Marshall Plan was a program funded by the U.S. government that
a. | supplied money, food, and weapons to European nations during World War
II. | b. | promoted foreign development in Communist nations following World War
II. | c. | loaned and granted money to needy countries in Europe after World War II in the hopes
of promoting democracy. | d. | encouraged the overthrow of Communist nations
by funding a variety of resistance movements within Communist countries following World War
II. |
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The largest provider of development assistance is
a. | the World Bank. | b. | the U.S. government. | c. | the International
Monetary Fund. | d. | the United Nations Development Program. |
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All of the following are accurate statements about IMF stabilization programs
EXCEPT that they often
a. | cause prices to rise in LDCs. | b. | include cuts in government
spending. | c. | have a negative impact on the poor in the first few years. | d. | provide incentives
to increase imports and decrease exports. |
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All of the following are accurate statements about the special economic zones
established in China EXCEPT
a. | foreign companies are allowed to operate in these zones. | b. | the economic zones
established in the interior regions have been far more successful than those established in coastal
cities. | c. | business owners are permitted to make most of their own
decisions. | d. | the success of the zones has caused a great shift in the distribution of the
population in the country. |
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Short Answer
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Reading a Bar Graph
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Identify two countries whose population growth rate is more than 2.0.
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What is the annual natural rate of population increase in Venezuela?
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In which country do approximately the same number of people die each year as
born each year?
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What does it mean if a country has a natural rate of population increase below
zero?
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Essay
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Critical Thinking
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Drawing Conclusions Explain how it is possible that a country can have
considerable wealth and still be considered a less developed country.
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Analyzing Information Discuss the benefits and problems associated with
multinational corporations establishing production facilities in an LDC.
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