Deck 21: The Political Economies of Developing Countries

Question 1

Developing countries often suffer when the individuals who could help a country develop leave. This process is called:

A) power loss.
B) cultural gain.
C) brain drain.
D) leverage buying.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

During the Cold War, developing countries could:

A) find no way to benefit from the superpower struggle.
B) benefit by playing the USSR against the U.S.
C) suffer and only watch the conflict that never involved them.
D) never change sides and benefit from military aid.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Yoweri Museveni has turned Uganda into:

A) a more politically stable country.
B) a military empire in East Africa that threatens other countries.
C) a bastion of government controlled monopolies.
D) a country exclusively governed by one tribe.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What is a developing country? What are the differences between a developed and developing country?

Question 5

What are the six problems that face all developing countries? Which problem is most important? Why and how are these six problems interrelated?

Question 6

The GDP per capita
(purchasing power parity) in Uganda is about:

A) $4,000
B) $2,400
C) $850
D) $1,260

Question 7

The World Bank is an international organization to help:

A) developed countries profit from developing countries' problems.
B) foster development through loans and advice.
C) finance failing governments as a tax-evading tactic.
D) the developed countries remain dominant.

Question 8

Beginning in the late 1980s, China has undergone an enormous:

A) population explosion.
B) territorial expansion.
C) economic liberalization with the introduction of markets.
D) political reform with the introduction of democracy and end of communism.

Question 9

Uganda's biggest problem is:

A) lack of agricultural land.
B) lack of water resources.
C) lack of political coherence.
D) the absence of any export products.

Question 10

In the 1990s, the international debt problem was greatly reduced by:

A) equilibrium accounting.
B) debt restructuring.
C) military intervention.
D) widespread refusal to pay interest on all debt.

Question 11

Much of U.S. foreign aid has been given for:

A) political and military purposes.
B) humanitarian purposes.
C) nongovernmental organizations.
D) national security reasons.

Question 12

Increasing per capita output becomes very difficult for a developing country when:

A) government monetary policies make more credit available.
B) too much foreign aid is available.
C) continued population growth occurs.
D) economic reforms make more funds available for development.

Question 13

To achieve takeoff into economic growth, a country needs to raise the level of:

A) corruption.
B) military pressure on foreign companies.
C) investment.
D) population so more people can work.

Question 14

In the 1980s, the problem of the international debt:

A) grew in importance.
B) declined in importance.
C) stabilized because of wise fiscal policies.
D) was eliminated in most developing countries.

Question 15

The current official religion of China is:

A) atheism.
B) Confucianism.
C) Islam.
D) Christianity.

Question 16

Why are the economic problems facing developing countries especially difficult to solve? What is the debt problem? What economic options are available for developing countries?

Question 17

What advice would you give to a potential leader of a developing country? What advice can you offer to help manage or solve the six major problems facing developing countries?

Question 18

How have the problems facing developing countries been managed in China, Venezuela, and Uganda? What success have these countries had in dealing with the major problems confronting these countries?

Question 19

Family planning efforts in China:

A) were abandoned by the government soon after being initiated.
B) have been incredibly successful to this day.
C) proved difficult to enforce in rural areas.
D) didn't succeed in reducing the number of children born to each family.

Question 20

The largest and most populous country in the world is:

A) India.
B) the U.S.
C) Brazil.
D) China.

Question 21

Government involvement in Venezuela's economy has resulted in:

A) a growing oil industry bolstered by growing demand for fossil fuels.
B) deregulation and decreasing control of prices.
C) rampant inflation and a black market.
D) widespread approval of the government's actions.

Question 22

Both autocracy and democracy present problems for developing countries.

Question 23

Today, China is the world's fastest growing economy.

Question 24

Any state that is to operate as a nation-state must have:

A) full transparency in government.
B) political consensus.
C) a fourth estate.
D) cultural unity.

Question 25

The political consensus problem is:

A) the central problem facing nonindustrial nations.
B) an interesting question but not a problem for developing countries.
C) a problem in industrial countries but not nonindustrial countries.
D) relatively easy to solve.

Question 26

The two main economic systems are capitalism and socialism.

Question 27

In the early 2000s, most development plans have been democratic, market-oriented plans.

Question 28

Democracy as a system offers a way around corruption.

Question 29

More U.S. foreign aid is now flowing to nongovernmental agencies.

Question 30

Today the World Bank is concentrating on environmentally sound investments.

Question 31

Since 1965, developing countries have grown at a faster rate than industrial countries.

Question 32

About 65 percent of the people in China are Chinese-speaking.

Question 33

Low interest rates and small amounts borrowed make it easy for developing countries to meet their debt obligations.

Question 34

Maintenance of your idealism and love of your country is unimportant advice to an advisor to a developing country.

Question 35

From 1966 until 1976, China was governed by a radical faction that attempted:

A) world conquest.
B) a Cultural Revolution.
C) increased contact with Western culture.
D) to introduce a market economy.

Question 36

The old saying that power corrupts is not without merit.

Question 37

Israel is the biggest recipient of U.S. foreign aid.

Question 38

In 2013, Nicolas Maduro became president after the death of:

A) Henrique Capriles Radonski.
B) Simón Bolivar.
C) Vicente Maduro.
D) Hugo Chavez.

Question 39

Developing countries are called developing because they have:

A) fewer languages than developed countries.
B) smaller populations than developed countries.
C) larger populations than developed countries.
D) lower incomes than developed countries.

Question 40

Corruption is a way of life in many developing countries.

Question 41

Uganda's President Museveni has instituted a multiparty democracy.

Question 42

One problem that Uganda has solved is political coherence.

Question 43

After the Communist revolution in China, the status of women in Chinese society improved greatly.

Question 44

The "Movement" system in Uganda does not allow for opposition political parties.

Question 45

Uganda is the best example of Western-style democracy in Africa.

Question 46

China has become heavily involved internationally, investing in countries in Africa and South America and getting drawn into maritime disputes.

Question 47

The Chinese one-child policy was very successful in rural areas.

Question 48

About 3 percent of the population of Venezuela is illiterate.

Question 49

The number of developed countries in the world is approximately:

A) twenty-five
B) forty
C) fifty-six
D) ninety-five

Question 50

In 1978, a change in Chinese leadership gradually eliminated market-oriented reforms in China.

Question 51

Uganda remains one of the world's largest producers of coffee.

Question 52

Venezuela has practiced limited government, especially when it comes to redistribution of income, since 1998.