Study Questions for Multiple Choice Test on Dec 3 2007, in lecture hall

The test will have 40 questions. Time is 1 hour

No Books or papers allowed in the test

This is not an open book Test

No dictionaries allowed

If you do not write the test on Dec 3 and if you are eligible for a make-up, you will have new questions (not from this study list) and no study questions.

Please study for all questions:

(N.B.: If you rely on others to prepare answers for you, you are bound to get your answers wrong from those whose answers may be wrong. Pl do not take that risk as you cannot gamble away your grade/ learning)

  1. The authors of “How to Help Poor Countries” suggest that the single-most important drag on African development has been:
  2. As discussed in “How to Help Poor Countries”, the greatest example of the success of foreign aid was:
  3. As postulated in “Can Extreme Poverty Be Eliminated?”, the UN Millennium Project intends to reduce extreme poverty by introducing programs from:
  4. As reported in “The Utopian Nightmare”, in the current environment, the intellectual leader of the utopians is:
  5. According to “The Utopian Nightmare”, comprehensive programs almost always fail to accomplish much good because:
  6. As discussed in “Development as Poison: Rethinking the Western Model of Modernity”, Dennis Robertson argued early in the twentieth century that what the economist economizes on is:
  7. As related in “Development as Poison: Rethinking the Western Model of Modernity”, Carol Gilligan argued in A Different Voice that the prevailing standards of personal development were:
  8. According to class Lecture 4 (Oct 23) all of the following are true about GDP of EMEs (Emerging Market Economies), except:
  9. According to class Lecture 4 (Oct 15), any development that results in a large inflow of foreign currency leads to:
  10. According to class Lecture 5 : part 2 (Oct 29 & Nov 5) , the components of neo-liberal policies are all the following, except?
  11. According to class Lecture 5 : part 2 (Oct 29 & Nov 5), Washington Consensus means all of the following except:
  12. According to class Lecture 5: part 2 (Oct 29 & Nov 5) Most Favored Nation status (MFN) means:
  13. According to class Lecture 5:part 2 (Oct 29 & Nov 5), Singapore issues are all of the following except:
  14. According to the class lecture 5: part 2 (Oct 30) Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) imposes all the following requirements on the debtor/borrower countries, except:
  15. According to the class lecture 5: part.2 (Oct 30), a corporation is all of the following except?
  16. After watching the video “Turbulances,” which of the following do you find to be true?
  17. Which of the following would be your conclusion on globalization after watching the video “Stepping from the shadows”
  18. According to Ron Burke, “Factory and the Market Place (video), 1985”. what was the conditions created by Buccaneer capitalists are all o the following except::
  19. According to the video “The Invisible Wall” all of the following fuels poverty, except:
  1. As discussed in the lecture (Nov 26) on World System Theory, ruling classes in the core and the periphery::
  2. As discussed in the lecture (Nov 26) World System Theory, the global Division of Labour indicates:
  3. Overall conclusions about trade liberalization, as reached in “Social Justice and Global Trade”, include that it:
  4. As noted in “Cotton the Huge Moral Issue”, the reason for the current historically low price of cotton worldwide is:
  5. In comparing cotton farming in the United States and Burkina Faso, the author of “Cotton the Huge Moral Issue” notes that:
  6. . In discussing the “Dutch disease” scenario, the author of “Making Aid Work” notes that:
  7. Among the results of living with aid dependency, as identified in “Making Aid Work”, are all of the following except;
  8. As identified in “Aiding Development: Tracking the Flows”, the nation that receives the most aid per capita is:
  9. As noted in “Food Sovereignty: Ending World Hunger in Our Time”, in order to reduce food-aid needs over the long term, national policies should:
  10. According to “Food Sovereignty: Ending World Hunger in Our Time”, the study on Food Aid or Food Sovereignty, showed that:
  11. As reported in “Crisis of Credibility”, a review of International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies in the 1980s and early 1990s showed that:
  12. . In discussing Japan’s proposal for an Asian Monetary Fund, the authors of “Crisis of Credibility” observe that:
  13. According to “Without Consent: Global Capital Mobility and Democracy”, the common agenda of the Party of Davos is to:
  14. World Bank estimates of the Doha round agenda indicate significant gains to the GDP of developing countries, but, as pointed out in “Without Consent: Global Capital Mobility and Democracy”, these estimates ignore the costs arising from all of the following except:
  15. As noted in “The 2005 Freedom House Survey”, of the following, the country that saw its ranking decline was:
  16. As explained in “The 2005 Freedom House Survey”, the ranking of Guyana declined due to:
  17. As stated in “Mbeki’s South Africa”, Deputy President Jacob Zuma was removed from office for:
  18. According to “Mbeki’s South Africa”, President Mbeki of South Africa has refrained from criticizing Robert Mugabe’s rule in Zimbabwe because Mugabe:
  19. As discussed in “Africa’s Democratization: A Work in Progress”, the following countries anchored more positive end of the elections spectrum in Africa, except:
  20. As noted in “Africa’s Democratization: A Work in Progress”, attempts to secure constitutional amendments to remove term limits were quashed by public protest in:
  21. As identified in “Latin America’s Left Turn”, all the following nations did not see a remarkable progress under leftist governments, except:
  22. In discussing the rule of the Vazquez government in Uruguay, the author of “Latin America’s Left Turn” reports that:
  23. As observed in “Latin America’s Left Turn”, Argentina’s President Kirchner:
  1. As identified in “Latin America’s Left Turn”, all the following are relatively better off countries in South America, except:
  2. As detailed in “Hugo Boss”, President Chavez controls all of the following except the:
  3. As contended in “Hugo Boss”, all authoritarian regimes seek power by following the same principle:
  4. As noted in “Hugo Boss”, starting in the late 1970s, Latin America was swept by:
  5. As detailed in “The Price of Life”, dangerous disease environments that cause many deaths in poor countries but few in rich countries include all of the following diseases except:
  6. As noted in “Reversal of Fortune”, the area with the highest percentage of people moving out of poverty was in the communities studied in:
  7. . In discussing the situation in Gujarat, India, the author of “Reversal of Fortune” observes that:
  8. As pointed out in “Why We Owe So Much to Victims of Disaster”, all of the following European countries contributed to the Least Developed Countries Fund, except:
  9. The author of “Why We Owe So Much to Victims of Disaster” contends with regard to the global environment that: