CH 10 quizlet

Quarry workers, quarry owners, stone cutters, exporters, designers and architects, builders, tile and stone distributors, etc. represent an example of the links connecting producers and consumers in a world market. This is an example of . . .

Commodity Chain

. . . processes in the commodity chain involve technology, education, research and development, and high wages

Core

What is associated with core production processes?

technology, high wages, education, and research and development

The word "development" implies . . .

progress

Modern ideas of development are related to . . .

the Industrial Revolution

Gross national product (GNP) measures the total value of goods and services produced by a country's corporations and individuals. It is standardized by . . .

dividing by the population per capita

Gross domestic product measures only . . .

production in a country

Which of the following has the highest per capita GNP?

Japan (including the G7)

Which does not make up a portion of Colombia's GNP?

Drug Trafficking (anything illegal and informal economy)

Which Asian nation listed below has a per capita GNP above the world average?

South Korea

A large component of survival in countries with low per capita GNP is . . .

Informal Economy

High levels of development can be determined by measurement of access to railways, roads, airline connections, telephones, radio and television, etc. These are collectively referred to as . . .

infrastructure

Dependency ratio measures . . .

the number of young plus the number of elderly per 100 workers

Rostow's development model

1)Traditional; 2)Precondition/Take off; 3) Takeoff; 4) Drive to Maturity; 5) High Mass Consumption

Rostow's model, developed in the early 1960s, was based upon the experience of . . .

Western Modernization

. . . is the only country in the western hemisphere with a dependency ration over 85

Guatemala

Even if the Gross National Product (GNP) index is used to measure the well-being of a country, it will fail to show . . .

wealth distribution

The principal structuralist alternative to Rostow's model of economic development is known as . . .

the Dependence Theory

The continuation of economic dependence even after political independence is referred to as . . .

neocolonialism

Theories which hold that economic disparities are built into the global economic system are referred to as . . .

Structuralist Theory

El Salvador abandoned its currency, the Colon, in favor of the U.S. dollar. This process is referred to as . . .

dollarization

Wallerstein's three-tier regionalization of the world

Core, Semi-Periphery, Periphery

Countries in which tier of the world economy (region) have high birth and death rates and low life expectancy at birth?

Semi-periphery

Young girls trafficked from the periphery to wealthier regions most often work as . . .

domestic servants

Which organization is headed by a U.S. citizen, is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and is charged with combating poverty in peripheral countries?

World Bank

. . . have low levels of human development according to the Human Development Index (2005)

Periphery (Bangladesh, Nepal, Subsarharan Africa, Haiti)

According to the World Bank, . . . had the highest external debt as a percentage of exports of goods and services for low- and middle-income in 2006.

Uruguay

Malaria kills about . . . children in the global periphery each month

150,000

In 2003, Malaria endemicity was very high in . . .

Africa - Congo; where there is lots of water

Argentina's severe economic crisis in 2001 was triggered by economic decisions made . . .

??? [Argentina - high debt obligations, over-reliance on exports, neoliberal (global - govt withdraws from private sector) reforms]

Economic development in some African states (e.g. Malawi and Zimbabwe) is hampered by . . .

corrupt governments

Most victims of malaria are which kind of people?

children under 5

Mexico has established export processing zones with special tax, trade and regulatory arrangements for foreign firms. This phenomena is referred to as . . .

Maquiladoras

Subsistence forms of agriculture in peripheral areas produce little in the way of . . .

protein

Desertification in Africa is a particular problem as . . . of the continent is arid or semiarid.

2/3

In peripheral countries it is not unusual for hotels in tourist areas to be owned by . . .

multinational corporations

Many tourist areas in peripheral regions are beach resorts. In 2004 Thailand's beach resort areas were ravaged by . . .

tsunami

The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the United States, with 80% unemployment and per capita income around $6,000, illustrates . . . within a core area country.

Peripheral Processes

Core area agriculture is characterized by . . .

all of the above

Establishment of government quotas on imports (e.g. cotton shirts or steel) to the U.S. has led to . . .

a shifting of production from country to country in the periphery and semi-periphery

Governments in both core and periphery often create wealth by focusing well paid government jobs . . .

in capital cities

A look at the maps of Nigeria, Pakistan and Brazil would show that when governments established new post-colonial capitals, they moved away from . . .

coastal port areas

Port Gentile, Gabon was built by . . .

European Oil Companies

Twenty thousand nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh constitute what can be called . . .

a parallel state

Microcredit programs have been successful in many places with the exception of . . .

places with high AID's mortality rates

. . . give loans to poor people, preferably women, to encourage development of small businesses

micro edit programs