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What does Adolescent Fertility Rate mean?
The number of births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 19.
The number of births per 1,000 women in childbearing years over 30 years old.
The percent of women holding full-time jobs outside the home.
The number of women who die giving birth per 100,000 births.
What does Cooperative Store mean?
Investment made by a foreign company in the economy of another country.
A member-owned, member-governed business that operates for the benefit of its members according to common principles agreed upon by the international cooperative community.
A process of improvement in the conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology.
A non-member-owned, member-governed business that operates for the benefit of its members.
How does a Developed country compare to a Developing country?
Economic policies imposed on less developed countries by international agencies to create conditions that encourage international trade.
A developing country is at a relatively early stage in the process of development whereas a country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development is already a developed country.
A developed country has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development where as a developing country is a country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of development.
The portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people in exchange for payment.
What is Development?
A process of improvement in the conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology.
Investment made by a foreign company in the economy of another country.
An indicator constructed by the U.N. to measure the level of development for a country through a combination of income, education, and life expectancy.
Provision of small loans and financial services to individuals and small businesses in developing countries.
What is a fair trade?
An alternative to international trade that provides greater equity to workers, small businesses, and consumers, focusing primarily on products exported from developed countries to developing countries.
The portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people in exchange for payment.
Economic policies imposed on less developed countries by international agencies to create conditions that encourage international trade.
An alternative to international trade that provides greater equity to workers, small businesses, and consumers, focusing primarily on products exported from developing countries to developed countries.
Female Labor Force Participation Rate is;
The number of births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 19.
The percentage of women holding full-time jobs outside the home.
The gross value of a product minus the costs of raw materials and energy.
The number of enrolled students divided by the number of teachers.
What does FDI stand for and what does it mean?
Foreign Direct Investment// The value of the total output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, not accounting for money that leaves and enters the country.
Female Development Industry// Eight goals adopted by the U.N. in 2002 to reduce disparities between developed and developing countries by 2015.
Foreign Direct Investment// Investment made by a foreign company in the economy of another country.
Foreign Development Investment// Investment made by a foreign company in the economy of another country.
Gender-ralated Development Index (GDI) means what?
An alternative to international trade that provides greater equity to workers, small businesses, and consumers, focusing primarily on products exported from developing countries to developed countries.
An indicator constructed by the U.N. to measure the extent of each country’s gender inequality in terms of reproductive health, empowerment, and the labor market.
An indicator constructed by the U.N. to measure the gender gap in the level of achievement in terms of income, education, and life expectancy.
The portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people in exchange for payment.
Gender Inequality Index (GII) means what?
An indicator constructed by the Senate to measure the extent of each country’s gender inequality in terms of reproductive health, empowerment, and the labor market.
An indicator constructed by the U.N. to measure the extent of each country’s gender inequality in terms of reproductive health, empowerment, and the labor market.
The value of the output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, including money that leaves and enters the country.
An indicator constructed by the U.N. to measure the level of development for a country through a combination of income, education, and life expectancy.
What does GDP stand for and what does it mean?
Gross Domestic Participation// The value of the total input of goods and services produced in a country in a year, not accounting for money that leaves and enters the country.
Gross Development Product// the value of the total output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, not accounting for money that leaves and enters the country.
Gross Domestic Product// the value of the output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, including money that leaves and enters the country.
Gross Domestic Product// the value of the total output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, not accounting for money that leaves and enters the country.
Gross National Income (GNI) means what?
The value of the output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, and taxing people based on the income.
The value of the output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, including money that leaves and enters the country.
The value of the input of goods and services produced in a country in a year, including money that leaves and enters the country.
The value of the output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, not including money that leaves and enters the country.
What does Human Development Index (HDI)
An indicator constructed by the U.N. to measure the level of development for a country through a combination of income, education, and life expectancy.
An indicator constructed by the U.N. to measure the level of development for a country through a combination of labor market , empowerment, and life expectancy.
A modification of the IHDI to account for inequality.
An indicator constructed by the Senate to measure the level of development for a country through a combination of income, education, and life expectancy.
What does the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) act as?
A modification of the GNI to account for inequality.
A modification of the HDI to account for inequality.
Provision of small loans and financial services to individuals and small businesses in developing countries.
Provision of small loans and financial services to individuals and small businesses based off their countries' HDI.
What does the Literacy Rate show?
The percentage of a country’s people who can see.
The percentage of a country’s people who can read and write.
The percentage of a country’s people who can sing and write.
The percentage of a country’s people who can hold a book.
What is maternal mortality rate?
The number of women who give birth to a still-born baby.
The number of women who die giving birth per 10,000 births.
The number of women who die giving birth per 100,000 births.
The number of births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 19.
What is Microfinance?
Provision of small loans and financial services to individuals and small businesses in developing countries.
Provision of small loans and financial services to individuals and small businesses in developed countries.
The amount of money needed in one country to purchase the same goods and services in another country.
The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials.
Eight goals adopted by the U.N. in 2002 to reduce disparities between developed and developing countries by 2015 is ______________________________?
Millennium Development Goals
Millennium Development Gross Income
Multiple Development Goals
Tertiary Development Goals
Primary Sector means?
The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from Earth, generally through businesses.
The portion of the economy concerned with the indirect extraction of materials from Earth, generally through agriculture.
The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from Earth, generally through agriculture.
The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from the Moon.
Productivity means?
The value of a particular product compared to the amount of agriculture needed to make it.
The amount of money needed in one country to purchase the same goods and services in their country.
The value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it.
The amount of money needed in one country to purchase the same goods and services in another country.
The ______/______ ratio means; The number of enrolled students divided by the number of teachers.
teacher/student
pupil/teacher
student/administrator
pupil/administration
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) means?
The amount of money needed in one country to purchase the same goods and services in the same country.
The amount of money needed in one country to purchase the different goods and services in the same country.
The amount of money needed in one country to purchase the different goods and services in another country.
The amount of money needed in one country to purchase the same goods and services in another country.
Secondary Sector means?
The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials.
Economic policies imposed on less developed countries by international agencies to create conditions that encourage international trade.
The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing un-useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials.
The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from Earth, generally through agriculture.
Economic policies imposed on less developed countries by international agencies to create conditions that encourage international trade is _________________________.
Structural Adjacent Program
Structural Adjustment Problem
Structural Adjustment Program
Strategy Adjustment Program
Sustainable Development Goals means?
Eight goals adopted by the U.N. in 2015 to reduce disparities between developed and developing countries by 2030.
Eight goals adopted by the U.N. in 2002 to reduce disparities between developed and developing countries by 2015.
Seventeen goals adopted by the U.N. in 2015 to reduce disparities between developed and developing countries by 2030.
Seventeen goals adopted by the U.N. in 2002 to reduce disparities between developed and developing countries by 2015.
Tertiary Sector means?
The portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people in exchange for payment.
An alternative to international trade that provides greater equity to workers, small businesses, and consumers, focusing primarily on products exported from developing countries to developed countries.
The portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities not exchanged.
An alternative to international trade that provides greater equity to workers, small businesses, and consumers.
______ ______ means The gross value of a product minus the costs of raw materials and energy.
Gross value
Value retracted
Developed value
Value Added
What is a good example of a material condition?
Factory
Adequate housing
A forrest
The beach
The developing process is ________.
periodic
declining
stationary
continuous
Every place exists along what?
The continuum
The scale
A sector
The HDI
What are the 3 factors each level of development can be distinguished accordingly?
economic, development, income
economic, literary, social
social, demographic, evolutionary
demographic, economic, social
To create HDI, the UN selects __ economic __ social and __ demographic factor.
1,1,1
1,2,1
2,,1,2
1,2,2
Economic= _____ Social=_____ Demographic=_____
income, health, education
health, income, years of schooling
education, income, health
income, education, health
What are good examples of a very high HDI? (0.80^)
North America, Russia and Canada
Canada, Mali and Iraq
Japan, Argentina and Europe
Europe, Canada and Brazil
What are good examples of a high HDI? (0.7-0.8)
Russia and Canada
Argentina and Madagascar
Europe and Brazil
Russia and Brazil
What are good examples of a medium HDI? (0.55-0.64)
Iraq, Mali and India
South Africa, Egypt and Iraq
Canada, India and Iraq
North America, Mali and Egypt
What are good examples of a low HDI? (0.55\/)
Mali and Japan
Madagascar and South Africa
Egypt and South Africa
Madagascar and Mali
What does this equation help solve? GDP/GNI
---------------
total pop.
contribution by average individual toward generalizing a country's wealth every 6 months.
contribution by average family units toward generalizing a country's wealth in a year.
Contribution by average individual toward generalizing a country's wealth in 5 years.
Contribution by average individual toward generalizing a country's wealth in a year.
What are good indicators of an MDC or an LDC?
GDP/GNI per capita, materials, worker productivity and availability of consumer goods.
GDP/GNI per capita, Types of jobs, worker productivity and availability of consumer goods.
PPP per capita, Types of jobs, worker productivity and availability of consumer goods.
GDP/GNI per capita, Types of jobs, number of labor workers and availability of consumer goods.
SELECT ALL THAT APPLY
Which of the following are primary sector jobs?
mining
grocer
farming
lumberjack
teacher
SELECT ALL THAT APPLY
Which of the following are secondary sector jobs?
making art
making clothing
making cars
making food
making ships
SELECT ALL THAT APPLY
Which of the following are tertiary sector jobs?
lawyer
farmer
artist
retail
butcher
What type of jobs are tertiary jobs?
service
industrial
manufacturing
central
What is infrastructure?
communication & transportation services
service & agricultural jobs
communication & tertiary services
transportation & tertiary services
Why is infrastructure important in developed countries?
important for economy's downfall
vital for nation's social programs
vital for economy's growth and function
needed for communities to have jobs
Why is infrastructure not needed as much in developing countries?
It is not a central role in government regulations for commerce
Developing countries are doing better without it then developed countries
It is not a central role on daily life and is expensive
It is costly and offers services that are not needed
What is the average worldwide life expectancy? Developed? Developing?
71; 57 & 80
72; 80 & 58
71; 80 & 57
73; 82 & 57
What is the average number of years today's adults spend in schooling? (MDCs)
11.5
11.3
12.1
12
What is the average number of years today's youth spends in schooling? (MDCs)
16.1
15.9
16.7
16.3
What places' money cannot be converted into any other kind of money?
China
Australia
Russia
India
In the international trade model, countries opened themselves up to what?
foreign investments & government laws
foreign regulations & commerce
foreign investments & international markets
foreign trade & government laws
What were the 5 stages in the Rostow model?
1) preconditions for takeoff 2) takeoff 3) traditional society 4) drive to maturity 5) age of mass consumption
1) age of mass consumption 2) traditional society 3) preconditions for takeoff 4) takeoff 5) drive to maturity
1) traditional society 2) preconditions for takeoff 3) takeoff 4) drive to maturity 5) age of mass consumption
1) drive to maturity 2) takeoff 3) age of mass consumption 4) traditional society 5) preconditions for takeoff
What happens in stage 1 of Rostow's model?
A started a process of development and contains a low % of people engaged in agriculture & high % national wealth.
A started a process of development and contains a low % of people engaged in agriculture & low % national wealth.
Not yet started a process of development and contains a high % of people engaged in agriculture & high % national wealth.
Not yet started a process of development and contains a high % of people engaged in agriculture & low % national wealth.
What happens in stage 2 of Rostow's model?
Elite group but has no economic activities
Group initiatives cultural economic activities
Elite group initiatives innovative economic activities
Group initiatives innovative activities for the government
What happens in stage 3 or Rostow's model?
Slow growth generated in a limited number of economic activities, such as textiles or government laws.
Slow growth generated in a limited number of economic activities, such as textiles or food products.
Rapid growth generated in a limited number of economic activities, such as textiles or food products.
Rapid growth generated in a limited number of economic activities, such as food products or clothing.
What happens in stage 4 of Rostow's model?
Modern technology previously confined to a few takeoff industries, diffuses to a wide variety of industry who then experience rapid growth comparable to growth of takeoff industries.
Modern technology previously confined to a few preconditioned takeoff industries, diffuses to a wide variety of industry who then experience rapid growth comparable to growth of takeoff industries.
Modern technology previously confined to a few traditional society industries, diffuses to a wide variety of industry who then experience rapid growth comparable to growth of takeoff industries.
Modern technology previously confined to a few takeoff industries, diffuses to a wide variety of industry who then experience rapid growth comparable to growth of preconditioned takeoff industries.
What happens in stage 5 of Rostow's model?
Economy shifts from production of light industry, such as cotton & energy, to consumer goods like a shirt or blanket.
Economy shifts from consumption of heavy industry, such as steel & energy, to consumer goods like a fridge or towel.
Economy shifts from production of light industry, such as steel & energy, to consumer goods like a pillows & car parts.
Economy shifts from production of heavy industry, such as steel & energy, to consumer goods like a fridge or motorcycle.
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