A. Wholesale and retail
B. manufacturing
C. agriculture
D. services
Globalization
World-systems theory distinguishes between core peripheral and semi-peripheral countries Which one of the following countries is part of the semi-periphery ?
A. Brazil
B. Japan
C. Ethiopia
D. Spain
Which of these is not a key factor behind the potential economic catch-up of developing nations according to Willem Buiter ?
A. a young population
B. good healthcare system
C. education
D. careful policy planning
Global economic inequality refers primarily to…………..?
A. systematic difference in wealth and income between global firms
B. systematic differences in wealth and income between countries
C. systematic differences in wealth and income within countries
D. systematic differences in wealth and income between poorer countries
According to the World Bank Which of these is a middle-income country ?
A. India
B. China
C. Indonesia
D. Vietnam
Dependency theorists from low-income countries drew on the ideas of………….?
A. Walt Rostow
B. Karl Marx
C. Immanuel Wallerstein
D. Bretton Woods
The potential number of children that women are capable of bearing is called…………?
A. fertility
B. fecundity
C. femininity
D. facticity
The demographic transition refers to…………..?
A. an increase in the birth rate
B. an increase in the death rate
C. an exponential growth in population
D. a change in the ratio of births to deaths
In what type of society have human beings lived for the majority of the time humans have been on planet Earth ?
A. agrarian societies
B. pastoral societies
C. hunter-gatherer societies
D. industrial societies
which definition best describes the process of globalization ?
A. capitalist companies are spreading across the planet
B. we all now live in a single society
C. individuals’ groups and nations are becoming more interdependent
D. human beings now live on every continent of the planet