• Question
1
5 out of 5 points
Countries with low literacy rates
are more likely to have all of the following EXCEPT:
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• Question
2
0 out of 5 points
Which of the following provides
the BEST explanation for why secondary school is so rarely free in developing
nations?
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• Question
3
5 out of 5 points
People without a primary
education are more likely to be all of the following EXCEPT:
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• Question
4
0 out of 5 points
Which of the following BEST
summarizes the problems seen in developing nations seeking to grow their
primary education system?
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• Question
5
0 out of 5 points
Which of the following is the
most common attitude toward education among parents in developing nations?
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• Question
6
5 out of 5 points
From a health perspective, which
of the following is a major advantage of living in a wealthy country?
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• Question
7
5 out of 5 points
Which of the following statements
BEST summarizes the views of “health trap” skeptics?
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• Question
8
5 out of 5 points
What is the “health trap”?
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• Question
9
5 out of 5 points
What common issue in developing
nations is directly responsible for the outbreak of infectious diseases such as
cholera?
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• Question
10
5 out of 5 points
On average, countries in which a
large fraction of the population is exposed to malaria are:
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• Question
11
5 out of 5 points
In order to receive International
Monetary Fund (IMF) assistance, what must member-countries typically do?
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• Question
12
5 out of 5 points
Which of the following BEST
describes how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) sees its role in lending to
countries?
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• Question
13
5 out of 5 points
Why would a nation choose to take
on debt?
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• Question
14
5 out of 5 points
What does it mean if a country
has a “fixed” exchange rate?
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• Question
15
5 out of 5 points
Countries in need of economic
reform are often advised to devalue their currencies. This measure, however, is
usually strongly opposed. Why?
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• Question
16
5 out of 5 points
Which of the following statements
BEST describes the relationship between weak institutions and a country’s
distribution of wealth?
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• Question
17
5 out of 5 points
Which of the following does NOT
increase the likelihood that a country will suffer from weak institutions?
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• Question
18
5 out of 5 points
In terms of performance,
communist governments have historically tended to:
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• Question
19
5 out of 5 points
Why are healthy institutions so
important to nation building? Choose the BEST answer.
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• Question
20
5 out of 5 points
Which of the following are the
actions of an extractive state?
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• Question
21
5 out of 5 points
Why do the leaders of developing
nations (such as Rwanda’s Paul Kagame) often prefer to work with businesses
instead of development agencies?
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• Question
22
5 out of 5 points
All of the following factors have
helped transform countries from developing nations to developed ones. Which of
the following is an “intangible” that has contributed to this transformation?
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• Question
23
5 out of 5 points
What is Rwanda’s strategy for
increasing its GDP and accelerating its development?
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• Question
24
5 out of 5 points
Which of the following would have
the greatest negative impact on a public health campaign, such as malaria
eradication?
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• Question
25
5 out of 5 points
How has Rwandan president Paul
Kagame attempted to “bypass the traditional development model”?
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• Question
26
5 out of 5 points
How many countries have agreed to
work toward the Millennium Development Goals?
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• Question
27
5 out of 5 points
As of 2012, which region of the
world has achieved the least amount of progress toward MDGs?
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• Question
28
5 out of 5 points
As of 2012, which region of the
world has achieved the greatest amount of MDGs progress?
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• Question
29
5 out of 5 points
What are the Millennium
Development Goals?
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• Question
30
5 out of 5 points
To successfully reach Millennium
Development Goal targets, the cooperation of which of the following groups is
most important?
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• estion 1
5 out of 5 points
Of the following explanations for
low student enrollment in developing countries, which do the authors find most
likely?
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• Question
2
0 out of 5 points
Which of the following is not
true about Mexico:
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• Question
3
5 out of 5 points
All of the following is true
about India EXCEPT:
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• Question
4
5 out of 5 points
The Hilde Back Education Fund
only sponsors secondary educations for a few children at each primary
school? Please choose the best explanation
for why this is the case.
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• Question
5
5 out of 5 points
Cash transfer programs for
education provide strong evidence that:
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• Question
6
5 out of 5 points
What important effect did the
acceptance of germ theory have on city planning at the turn of the century?
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• Question
7
5 out of 5 points
What is the “health trap”?
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• Question
8
0 out of 5 points
Why have economists (even “free
market” ones) generally supported subsidies for health care?
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• Question
9
5 out of 5 points
According to the text, in
combatting sanitation challenges what advantage do citizens of modern squatter
communities have over poor citizens in Victorian England?
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• Question
10
5 out of 5 points
According to the text, which of
the following issues confronting the developing world “mirrors” those faced in
mid-19th-century London?
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• Question
11
0 out of 5 points
Which of the following was NOT a
consequence of poor countries’ “monetization” of their deficits?
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• Question
12
5 out of 5 points
According to the text, how does
the IMF see its role in lending to countries?
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• Question
13
5 out of 5 points
According to the text, what were
the two goals of the Bretton Woods conference?
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• Question
14
5 out of 5 points
Which of the following describes
“dependency theory”?
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• Question
15
5 out of 5 points
In order to receive International
Monetary Fund (IMF) assistance, what must member-countries do?
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• Question
16
5 out of 5 points
When the government is controlled
by a small group of people who also control most businesses, the ruling elite
are likely to do all of the following EXCEPT:
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• Question
17
5 out of 5 points
When can an institution can be
characterized as extractive?
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• Question
18
5 out of 5 points
Communist governments have
historically tended to:
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• Question
19
5 out of 5 points
Which of the following is
statements about countries and wealth is the most true, according to the text?
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• Question
20
5 out of 5 points
A state practically ruled by a
paramilitary group will do all of the following EXCEPT:
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• Question
21
5 out of 5 points
What organization provided much
of the funding for the countries’ anti-malaria programs?
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• Question
22
5 out of 5 points
According to the text, why have
countries in tropical and sub-tropical Africa given less of a priority to
battling malaria than the four countries represented in this study?
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• Question
23
5 out of 5 points
How has Kagame attempted to
“bypass the traditional development model”?
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• Question
24
5 out of 5 points
Which of the following is an
example of Kagame’s controversial but bold approach to improving Rwanda’s
fortunes?
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• Question
25
5 out of 5 points
Which of the following statements
about Chile’s economic progress is NOT true?
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• Question
26
5 out of 5 points
How does Fei characterize the
difference between Weibo and journalism?
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• Question
27
5 out of 5 points
Grameen benefits from providing a
job and a loan in all the following ways EXCEPT:
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• Question
28
5 out of 5 points
Which of the following is NOT one
of the Millennium Development Goals?
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• Question
29
5 out of 5 points
What is Weibo?
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• Question
30
5 out of 5 points
The key contribution cited from
the UNDP-IKEA partnership was:
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