Pols 160X Unit 4 Ch.7

Front 1

_______ is the theory trying to explain the North-South gap in terms of historical colonization of the North and South.

Back 1

Imperialism

Front 2

About _____ people live in poverty in the world and are concentrated in Africa.

Back 2

1 billion

Front 3

The average income per person in ____ is $3,500 and $2,500 in _____.

Back 3

South Asia, Africa

Front 4

Every six seconds, a child in the world dies from _______. (5 mil./yr).

Back 4

malnutrition

Front 5

The 2000 UN adoption setting targets for basic needs that are to be achieved by 2015 were the_______.

Back 5

Millenium Development Goals

Front 6

Basic needs include:

Back 6

Food, water, shelter

Front 7

If the Global South continues to blame _______ for the lack of basic needs, extreme poverty fuels revention, terrorism, and anti-Western sentiments.

Back 7

Imperialism

Front 8

The ablility to read and write a simple sentence by UNESCO is defined as ______.

Back 8

Literacy

Front 9

The UNICEF inexpensive methods to save millions of children are (4):

Back 9

1. Growth Monitoring
2. Oral hydration
3. Immunization of measles, polio, TB, tetanus, Whooping Cough, Diphtherion
4. Promotion of Breast Feeding

Front 10

Since ____, the Global South has made significant gains.

Back 10

1990

Front 11

___% of the worlds people live in the Global South while having ___% of the world's doctors and nurses.

Back 11

75%, 30%

Front 12

1/ __ people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water.

Back 12

1/6

Front 13

1/__ people worldwide live in sustandard housing or are homeless altogether.

Back 13

1/6

Front 14

An underwater earthquake in 2004 affected the countries of:

Back 14

Indonesia, Sri lanka, Thailand, and others

Front 15

The lack of needed foods including protein and vitamins is defined as ________.

Back 15

malnutrition

Front 16

The lack of calories is defined as ________.

Back 16

undernourishment

Front 17

Hunger doesn't kill people by ______ but weakens the immune system to other infectious diseases.

Back 17

starvation

Front 18

_____ million people (1/8) are chronically undernourished.

Back 18

820 Million

Front 19

25% of the world's children are underweight; half of which live in the countries of:

Back 19

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh

Front 20

The process of growing own food is called _______.

Back 20

Substinance Farming

Front 21

______ has disrupted substinance farming.

Back 21

Colonialism

Front 22

The Global South shifted from substinance farming to ______ .

Back 22

Commercial Agriculture

Front 23

Agriculture goods produced for export to world markets providing little nutrition to local peasants are called ______.

Back 23

Cash Crops

Front 24

The moving from rural areas to cities is called _______.

Back 24

urbanization

Front 25

Capital Accumulation os concentrated in _____.

Back 25

cities

Front 26

Rebellions arise from frustrated ______ rather than poverty.

Back 26

expectations

Front 27

The breakup of land holdings and redistributions to poor peasants for use in substinance farming is defined as ______.

Back 27

Land Reform

Front 28

Of all the malnourished children, ___% are female.

Back 28

80%

Front 29

Twice as many women are ____ than men.

Back 29

illiterate

Front 30

The movement of people from poorer to richer states is defined as ______ and is the greatest political issue affecting N-S relations.

Back 30

Migration

Front 31

People fleeing to seek refuge from war, nat. disaster, or political persecution are defined as _____.

Back 31

Refugees

Front 32

_______ obligate countries to accept refugees who arrive at their borders.

Back 32

International Norms

Front 33

700,000 people annually are sex and labor slaves as 20,000 to US by the process of ______.

Back 33

Trafficking

Front 34

In a ____ view, liberal economics are used where the stress of overall efficiency in maximizing growth.

Back 34

Capitalistic

Front 35

In a _____view, the distribution of wealth is determined by its creation and sees N-S relations as a zero-sum game.

Back 35

Socialism/Socialistic

Front 36

The creation of standing wealth is called _______.

Back 36

Capital Accumulation

Front 37

The use of capital to produce more capital is called _______.

Back 37

Economic surplus

Front 38

The North consumes 10x more ______ per person as the South.

Back 38

commercial energy

Front 39

A set of goods used in producing other goods is called _____.

Back 39

capital

Front 40

Valued goods not used to produce other goods or services are called ______.

Back 40

Consumption goods

Front 41

Investment competes with _______.

Back 41

Consumption

Front 42

_______ is a system of private ownership of capital relying on market forces toward the workers who produce the wealth.

Back 42

Capitalism

Front 43

______ favors government plannin to manage economy rather than to rely on market forces.

Back 43

Socialism

Front 44

_______ is a branch of Socialism including some communism and other approaches influential in developing countries where capital is scarse and labor conditions are wretched.

Back 44

Marxism

Front 45

In regards to economy, state ownership is _____.

Back 45

not efficient

Front 46

The manufacturing regions of the world-system are refered to as the _____.

Back 46

core or center

Front 47

The global system of regional class divisions relying on the global level of analysis is refered to as the ______.

Back 47

world-system or capitalist world economy

Front 48

The regions of extractions in the world-system are refered to as the ______.

Back 48

periphery

Front 49

The most important class struggle today is between the _____ and _____ of the world-system.

Back 49

Core and periphery

Front 50

The _____ uses power from wealth to concentrate surplus from the ______.

Back 50

Core, periphery

Front 51

The _______ is the area in which manufacturing occurs while some capital concentrates but not to the extent of advanced areas of the core. (Eastern Europe and Russia).

Back 51

Semiperiphery

Front 52

The shift of exported-oriented manufacturing from the industrialized countries to Asia reflects _______. (also West's imports of energy)

Back 52

Globalization

Front 53

Basing economic growth on resource exports is refered to as a ______.

Back 53

Resource Curse

Front 54

Imperialism is structured on both the _____ and _____ principle.

Back 54

Identity, dominance

Front 55

The _____ colonizations of the Global South is central to those countries' national identity, foreign policy, and its place in the world.

Back 55

European

Front 56

A wave of Imperialism revolts happened in the ______.

Back 56

1960s

Front 57

Liberation from ______ did not prove to transform underlying economic realities for poor countries.

Back 57

Colonial control

Front 58

The continuation of colonial exploitation without formal political control is called ______.

Back 58

Neocolonialism

Front 59

The lack of accumulation of capital in the Global South where dependency of accumulation of capital cannot sustain itself internally is the idea of the ________ theory.

Back 59

Dependence

Front 60

When foreign capital is invested in third world countries to extract particular raw material in a particular place, it is called an ________.

Back 60

Enclave economy

Front 61

Enclave economies, nationally controlled production, penetration of national economics by MNCs are all types of _______.

Back 61

Dependencies

Front 62

To create local markets, capital must be concentrated enough to create a _______.

Back 62

middle class

Front 63

eglitarian ideals embrace the idea of a more_______.

Back 63

equal dist. of power

Front 64

N-S relations show how different it has become to separate ______ from _______.

Back 64

Political economy, national security

Front 65

The combined process of capital accumulation, rising per capita incomes, increasing skills of the population, adoption of new technological styles, and other related social and econ. changes are all part of _______.

Back 65

Economic Development

Front 66

One simple measure of economic development is the _______ which is the amount of activity economically per person.

Back 66

per capita GDP

Front 67

NIC stands for ______ and are poor states achieving self-sustaining capital accumulation.

Back 67

Newly Industrialized Countries

Front 68

The "Four Tigers/ Dragons" include the states of______.

Back 68

South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore

Front 69

The most successful NICs are named the ______.

Back 69

Four Tigers/Dragons

Front 70

South Korea has a competitive ____ automobile industry.

Back 70

Steel

Front 71

Taiwan focuses on the _______ and ______ industry.

Back 71

electronics and computer

Front 72

Singapore's economy is largely based on _____.

Back 72

Trade

Front 73

Foreign investments able to run on capitalistic principles are called _______.

Back 73

Free-economic zones

Front 74

Economic growth from 1992-1994 in China was __% per year.

Back 74

12%

Front 75

China joined the WTO in ____ and was a major opening in the Chinese economy.

Back 75

2001

Front 76

China's success comes from the shift from _______ toward private ownership.

Back 76

central planning

Front 77

India has a factured _____ government.

Back 77

democratic

Front 78

India's economy is largely in the _____ and _______ sectors.

Back 78

Service and Information (software/telephone)

Front 79

India's labor force is ______ and speaks _____.

Back 79

well-educated, English

Front 80

The most successful development strategies were pursued by _____.

Back 80

Asia

Front 81

The five highest growing countries in the Global South are :

Back 81

India, Vietnam, Ethiopia, and the Democratic Congo

Front 82

Malaysia's economy fouces on ______.

Back 82

Electronics

Front 83

The Global South states try to use _____ as the basis of capital accumulation.

Back 83

international trade

Front 84

Development of local industries to produce items that a country has been importing to create a track surplus and is against the principle of comparative advantage is called _______.

Back 84

import substitution

Front 85

The strategy used by NICs to develop industries that can compete in specific world economic markets is called _______.

Back 85

Export-led growth

Front 86

To invest in manufacturing, countries must ______ what surplus their economies produce.

Back 86

concentrate

Front 87

Wealth must be concentrated in a _____ class that has income to buy manufactured goods.

Back 87

middle

Front 88

Concentration of _____ can hurt the people of the country.

Back 88

capital

Front 89

One problem in capital accumulation is ______.

Back 89

corruption

Front 90

Using small loans for poor people (especially women), to support economic self-sufficiency is called ______.

Back 90

microcredit or microlending

Front 91

______ is the opposite of the trickle-down effect by injecting capital at the bottom of the economic hierarchy.

Back 91

microcredit

Front 92

The fastest growing states have been ________ not democracies.

Back 92

authoritarian

Front 93

Capital flows from the _____ to the ______ spurring growth through foreign investment, debt, and foreign aid.

Back 93

Industrialized West to Global South

Front 94

investment by foreigners in capital goods, usually by MNCs is called ______.

Back 94

foreign investment

Front 95

Companies owned by foreign MNCs and local firms (or the host government) is called a _____.

Back 95

Joint venture

Front 96

When the host states facilitates rather than impedes the MNCs business, it is called ______.

Back 96

Regulatory Environment

Front 97

The act of losing skilled workers to other countries is called the ______.

Back 97

Brain Drain

Front 98

A constant drain on surplus generated by investment of money is called a ____.

Back 98

Debt Service

Front 99

If foreign investment loss is the problem of the _____ while debt is the problem of the ______.

Back 99

MNC, borrowing state

Front 100

The reworking of loan terms of payment is called ________.

Back 100

Debt renegotiation

Front 101

The Global South owes more than $ ______ in foreign debt.

Back 101

2 Trillion

Front 102

The agreement to loan IMF funds when certain government policies are adopted is called the ________.

Back 102

IMF Conditonality agreement

Front 103

The implementation of IMF conditionality terms is called ________.

Back 103

Structural Adjustment

Front 104

The IMF formula for stability is ______ from one state to the next.

Back 104

Universal

Front 105

The U.S. would not qualify for IMF assistance because of its _____.

Back 105

government defecits

Front 106

In general the ____ trading regime works against poor countries relative to industrialized ones.

Back 106

WTO

Front 107

A ______ makes it harder for poor states to protect infant industries in order to build self-sufficient capital accumulation.

Back 107

free-trade regime

Front 108

The ______ was formed to make the shift of trade favor commodities relative to manufactured goods.

Back 108

New International Economic Order (NIEO)

Front 109

______ can be a form of power in which the donor seeks to influence the recipient.

Back 109

Foreign Assistance

Front 110

The ___ gives the lowest percentage of GNP at 0.27%

Back 110

United States

Front 111

Grants, technological cooperation, credits, loans, loan guarantees, and military assistance are all types of _______ aid.

Back 111

bilateral

Front 112

_______ is the least efficient and form of bilateral aid and is most prone to impede economic development.

Back 112

Military assistance

Front 113

The main agency dispspensing U.S. foreign economic assistance assistance (not military) is called the _______.

Back 113

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Front 114

The _________ increased U.S. aid only to countries in education and sound fiscal management.

Back 114

2004 Millenium Challenge Account

Front 115

Overall, the flow of assistance is through the UN coordinated by the the _________.

Back 115

UN development Program

Front 116

The provision of short-term relief to people affected by famine, drought, natural disasters, and war in form of food, water, shelter and coordinated by the UN office of the Disaster Relief Coordinator (UNDRO) is explained by the ________.

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Disaster Relief Model

Front 117

Providing ongoing development assistance in form of projects administered by agencies in the North to the South to help meet basic need is called the _______.

Back 117

Missionary Model

Front 118

Relying on local communities to determine needs of their own people and carry out developmental projects on their own while being provided funding giving global South Empowerment is expressed in the _______.

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Oxfam Model