Which of these is not an international non-governmental organisation (INGO)?
Correct answer C. International Telecommunication Union
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What percentage of the world’s population lives in what the World Bank calls high-income countries?
Correct answer D. 15%
What proportion of malnourished under-fives in low- and middle-income countries live in countries that produce a food surplus?
Correct answer C. More than 75%
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Which theorist is most closely associated with world-systems theory?
Correct answer A. Immanuel Wallerstein
What is the main role of the International Monetary Fund?
Correct answer B. To maintain stability in the world financial system
In demographic terms, what is the main argument of Malthusianism?
Correct answer D. Population growth tends to outstrip food production
Which of these measures excludes income earned by a country’s residents or corporations abroad?
Correct answer D. Gross Domestic Product
What is the correct sequence of Rostow’s stages of economic growth?
Correct answer B. Traditional, take-off, drive to maturity, high mass consumption
Which potential problem did Max Weber see in the advance of modern bureaucracies?
Correct answer C. Democracy could become a sham if bureaucrats held real power
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Which bodies are known as the Bretton Woods institutions?
Correct answer A. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank
What was Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, designed in the late eighteenth century?
Correct answer A. A prison
What is the measurement and explanation of the size of populations called?
Correct answer B. Demography
Which of these is not one of Perlmutter’s (1972) types of transnational corporation?
Correct answer A. Heliocentric
Which aspect of organisations is most associated with the work of Michel Foucault?
Correct answer B. Surveillance
What are the four principles of McDonaldisation?
Correct answer B. Efficiency, calculability, uniformity, automation
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What did Meyer and Rowan mean by asserting that formal rules in organisations are often myths?
Correct answer C. That the rules have little actual substance in reality
The emergence of a consolidated network of business leadership fits best with which ideal type of capitalism?
Correct answer C. Institutional capitalism
Which of these was the earliest example of an international organisation?
Correct answer D. The Hanseatic League
What is the form of transnational organisation called in which overseas subsidiaries are managed by local firms in each country?
Correct answer B. Polycentric
Which concept is best illustrated by the saying ‘it’s not what you know, it’s who you know’?
Correct answer D. Social capital