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Chapter 11 — Global Inequality

How many of the 573 current global billionaires are in Asia?
a) 0
b) 48
c) 88
d) 128
Global economic inequality refers primarily to:
a) systematic differences in wealth and income between global firms
b) systematic differences in wealth and income between countries
c) systematic differences in wealth and income within countries
d) systematic differences in wealth and income between poorer countries
Which of these does not include income earned by individuals or corporations outside a country?
a) Gross National Product
b) Gross Domestic Product
c) Purchasing Power Parity
d) Gross National Income
According to the World Bank, which of these is a middle-income country?
a) India
b) China
c) Indonesia
d) Vietnam
Between 1968 and 1998 global life expectancy at birth has
a) risen from 56 to 67 years
b) fallen from 50 to 47 years
c) risen from 50 to 61 years
d) fallen from 54 to 50 years
What proportion of those defined as ‘in hunger’ by the UNWFP are in the developing world?
a) 65%
b) 75%
c) 85%
d) 95%
The sequence of Rostow’s ‘stages of economic growth’ are:
a) traditional, take-off, drive to maturity, high mass consumption
b) traditional, drive to maturity, high mass consumption, take-off
c) traditional, state intervention, high mass consumption, take-off
d) traditional, dependency, modernization, take-off
Dependency theorists from low-income countries drew on the ideas
a) Walt Rostow
b) Karl Marx
c) Immanuel Wallerstein
d) Bretton Woods
The ‘Bretton Woods’ institutions are:
a) The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank
b) The World Trade Organization and the World Bank
c) The International Monetary Fund and the World Health Organization
d) The United Nations and the World Trade Organization
The potential number of children that women are capable of bearing is called:
a) fertility
b) fecundity
c) femininity
d) facticity
The activity of measuring and explaining the size of populations is known as:
a) Malthusianism
b) demography
c) forecasting
d) official statistics
The demographic transition refers to:
a) an increase in the birth rate
b) an increase in the death rate
c) an exponential growth in population
d) a change in the ratio of births to deaths

Anthony Giddens — Sociology, 5th Edition

Anthony Giddens • Sociology 5th Edition

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Chapter 11 — Global Inequality