Deck 10: Industrialization: the Path to Progress

Question 1

Manufacturing industry has long been seen as the "key" to economic growth. Its spread from the core to poorer countries since the 1970s has been due to what primarily?

A) import substitution policies
B) shift of labour-intensive production by multinationals to low wage countries
C) government policies to attract foreign investment plus favourable factor conditions for multinationals
D) shifting terms of trade between primary commodities and manufactured goods

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which "stages" of production are most likely to "move" from core to periphery locations:

A) labour intensive
B) capital intensive
C) land intensive
D) relatively labour intensive and those that may be labour intensive

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Much of the growth of manufacturing output in China since the 1990s has been concentrated:

A) around Beijing
B) in coastal China
C) in the Yangtze River basin
D) in the far west

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Technological innovation can be a double-edged sword in the development of manufacturing because:

A) it can substitute rapidly for labour
B) it is hard to translate innovation into production
C) it creates new products or processes that then require new production conditions
D) many products resist production by new technologies

Question 5

In the former Soviet Union, major industrial investment was always directed by the central government. Yet, there was as much spatial concentration of specialized industry there as elsewhere in the world. Apart from tapping local natural resources, this was due primarily to:

A) agglomeration economies
B) adjacency to political centers
C) political favoritism
D) ethnic bias