Deck 20: The Political Economies of Developing Countries

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Birth control has been a national priority in China with a one-child family limit since:

A) 1950.
B) 1964.
C) 1979.
D) 1993.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

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

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

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The current official religion of China is:

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

Question 5

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 6

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 7

Over the last sixty years, the U.S. has given foreign aid at about the rate of:

A) 10 percent of U.S. total output.
B) one half of 1 percent of U.S. total output.
C) 33 percent of U.S. total output.
D) 50 percent of U.S. total output.

Question 8

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 9

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 10

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 11

The number of developed countries in the world is:

A) 25.
B) 40.
C) 56.
D) 95.

Question 12

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 13

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 14

How many Internet users were in China as of 2010?

A) 1 million
B) 500,000
C) 389 million
D) China still has no access to the Internet

Question 15

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 16

During the Cold War, developing countries could:

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

Question 17

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 18

China is barely able to feed its own people. In terms of world food producers, China ranks:

A) first.
B) third.
C) eleventh.
D) fifteenth.

Question 19

The largest and most populous country in the world is:

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

Question 20

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 21

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 22

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

Question 23

There are about 56 countries in the world that are considered developing countries.

Question 24

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

Question 25

In 2000, Mexican voters elected Vincente Fox as the first:

A) non-Mexican vice president.
B) democratically elected dictator.
C) monarch since the nineteenth century.
D) non-PRI president.

Question 26

Corruption as a way of life is now almost completely absent in developing countries.

Question 27

The percentage of Mexico's population living in towns and cities is about:

A) 20 percent.
B) 50 percent.
C) 77 percent.
D) 95 percent.

Question 28

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

Question 29

Today the World Bank is concentrating on environmentally sound investments.

Question 30

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

Question 31

Today China is the world's fastest growing economy.

Question 32

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

Question 33

The old saying that power corrupts is not without merit.

Question 34

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

Question 35

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.

Question 36

The two main economic systems are capitalism and socialism.

Question 37

Both autocracy and democracy present problems for developing countries.

Question 38

As of 2011, the GDP per capita in Uganda is about:

A) $1500.
B) $1300.
C) $ 850.
D) $ 1260.

Question 39

Corruption is a way of life in many developing countries.

Question 40

Democracy as a system offers a way around corruption.

Question 41

About 9 percent of the population of Mexico is illiterate.

Question 42

Slightly less than half of the population of Uganda over the age of 25 have no formal schooling or less than one year of schooling.

Question 43

In China, all available land is already under cultivation.

Question 44

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 45

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

Question 46

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

Question 47

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

Question 48

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

Question 49

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

Question 50

The "Lord's Resistance Army" in Uganda has abducted an estimated 5,000 children and used them as soldiers.

Question 51

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

Question 52

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 53

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

Question 54

The National Revolutionary Party in Mexico was formed from all major political groups in 1939.

Question 55

Uganda's President Museveni has instituted a multiparty democracy.