Deck 12: A: Global Stratification

Question 1

A recent United Nations report shows that,in general,high-income nations have a higher quality of life than low income nations.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Low-income countries are home to more than half of the world's people.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The poorest 20 percent of the world's people live on just 1 percent of the world's income.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

In low-income nations,most people live in villages and small towns where farming is the most common way to make a living.

Question 5

In low-income nations,inequality between men and women is greater than it is in high-income countries.

Question 6

Even people with income at our country's poverty line live better than a majority of the world's people.

Question 7

The text defines middle-income nations as having per capita income between $2,500 and $12,000 per year.

Question 8

The richest 20 percent of the world's people receive less than 50 percent of the world's income.

Question 9

In poor countries,about 2/3 of the people live in or near cities.

Question 10

Each of the world's richest three individuals has personal wealth equal to the total economic output of more than 100 of the world's poorest countries.

Question 11

Japan and Australia are examples of middle-income nations.

Question 12

The world region with the greatest number of poor "street children" is Latin America.

Question 13

Typically,people in low-income countries do more physical labour yet consume fewer calories than people in rich nations.

Question 14

Globally,middle-income countries have an "average" standard of living by North American standards.

Question 15

There is less income inequality between nations than there is within Canada.

Question 16

High income countries are found on five different continents.

Question 17

Global wealth is more unequally distributed than global income.

Question 18

The former Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe are low-income countries.

Question 19

Although Africa is a poor region of the world,people live almost as long as in the United States.

Question 20

Compared to poverty in Canada,poverty in the world as a whole is both more widespread and more severe.

Question 21

Colonialism and neocolonialism both refer to a situation where one country politically rules or controls another country.

Question 22

Dependency theory claims that poverty results from natural processes,such as people having too many children.

Question 23

Dependency theory claims that the economic positions of the rich and poor nations of the globe are linked.

Question 24

In W.W.Rostow's model of economic development,the first level is called the "take-off stage."

Question 25

Dependency theory claims that the widespread poverty in low-income countries has little to do with great affluence in high-income countries.

Question 26

Because they buy so many raw materials,rich nations are now in debt to low-income nations.

Question 27

Modernization theory was created as a criticism of U.S.foreign policy.

Question 28

Some forms of marriage in the world amount to slavery.

Question 29

Huge businesses that operate in many different countries are called multinational corporations.

Question 30

Modernization theory identifies tradition as the greatest barrier to economic development.

Question 31

Critics say that dependency theory wrongly treats wealth as a zero-sum,ignoring how the world has become much richer over time.

Question 32

Although poverty continues,the world has ended the practice of slavery.

Question 33

In low-income nations,population growth is generally very high.

Question 34

Twelve million people die each year from treatable,preventable diseases.

Question 35

Dependency theory states that high-income nations have narrow,export-oriented economies.

Question 36

Modernization theory claims that what we need to explain in human history is not poverty but affluence.

Question 37

CIDA has made the involvement of women in development a priority.

Question 38

During the twentieth century,the standard of living in high-income countries,where the Industrial Revolution took place,increased dramatically.

Question 39

Modernization theory focuses on the production of wealth,while dependency theory focuses on the distribution of wealth.

Question 40

Modernization theory claims that rich nations can and do help solve the world's poverty problem.

Question 41

There is less economic inequality in the world today than a century ago;but since about 1970,the degree of economic inequality in the world has increased.

Question 42

"Guest workers" make up 85% of the population of The United Arab Emirates.

Question 43

Global inequality is partly a problem of technology,and it is also a political issue.

Question 44

Global inequality puts everyone at risk of war and terrorism.