Question 1

What strategies could you propose to either end the practice of offshore financial services or dissuade companies and wealthy individuals from utilizing them? What advantages might the United States garner by ending or limiting access to these offshore services?

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Question 2

Imagine that for whatever reasons you wished to dramatically increase the rate of urbanization in a developing country. How would you do this? Use one country as a specific case as you discuss ways in which urbanization could be dramatically increased, and cite evidence from the textbook to reinforce your ideas.

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Question 3

Suggest some methods that could be used to slow the process of rapid urbanization in developing countries. Cite evidence from the textbook to back up your suggestions.

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Question 4

In a developing country, what are the economic advantages of having a primate city? What are the disadvantages? In your opinion, is it generally better to have a primate city? Why or why not?

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Question 5

You are assembling a "time capsule" that you imagine anthropologists will open 500 years from now to make sense of the values, experiences, and concerns of your generation (18 to 29 year olds). What five artifacts representing consumer services (and consumer culture) would you add to the time capsule, and why?

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Question 6

Discuss the possible reasons for the origin of settlements.

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Question 7

Developing countries are experiencing rapid urbanization. What advantages might their societies experience as a result of this rapid shift? What disadvantages are most pronounced? On the whole, is this a positive or negative trend?

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Question 8

Imagine that you live in a developing country with a large primate city. What strategies might you propose to make the country's population and economic power less concentrated? Support your answer with the material from this chapter and your other knowledge of world geography.

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Question 9

Outline the steps a retailer should take in selecting the optimal location for a store.

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Question 10

Outline the major principles of central place theory, and discuss the degree to which they relate to your local community.

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Question 11

In many developing countries, large percentages of the people continue to live in rural areas. Imagine ways in which per capita wealth be best increased in those rural areas. What advantages and disadvantages might your plan entail?

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Question 12

Discuss the impact of globalization on modern world cities.

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Question 13

Why does urbanization change the proportion of people employed in the various sectors of the economy? Which sector is concentrated in world cities? Why?

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Question 14

Discuss the apparent economic base(s) of your local community and its significance to your life at the present moment.

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Question 15

The British enclosure movement is discussed in this chapter as a strategy toward economic development. However, what disadvantages and problems can you imagine or envision accompanying the enclosure movement? Who might have been disadvantaged by it, and why?

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Question 16

In what ways have you participated economically in your community's service economy, both as a laborer and as a consumer, in recent years?

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Question 17

Take an inventory of the kinds of advertisements (in all media, print and electronic) that you encounter over the course of two days. Which of these ads pertain more to consumer services, and which pertain more to business services? How do these various kinds of ads contribute to the consumer culture within which we are immersed? Consider questions of socioeconomic class, gender, and ethnic identity as you formulate your responses to these questions.

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Quiz 12: Services and Settlements