What is the most typically used measure of a country's level of development?
- a. Technological innovation
b. Mobility
c. Income
d. Gender equity
Social outcomes commonly used to measure a country's level of human development include:
- a. Duration of hospital stays during pregnancy and nominal interest
rate
b. Infant mortality and adult literacy rate
c. Average number of Facebook friends per user and other social media indicators
d. Average years to graduation and admissions rates to universities
What does the Gini coefficient measure?
- a. General efficiency of the economic system
b. Rule of law
c. Poverty
d. Inequality
Which of the following would typically be considered “human capital”?
- a. Gender and race
b. Health and education
c. Prime ministers and presidents
d. Religious world views and trust
Approaches to development that emphasize the environment often want to focus attention on which of the following?
- a. Sustainability
b. Accountability
c. Transparency
d. Autonomy
A central debate about the causes of development in the twentieth century was between which of the following perspectives?
- a. States and markets
b. Equity and reciprocity perspectives
c. GDP and GNI
d. North versus South
One example of an institution that has been hypothesized to cause development is:
- a. Collective action
b. The family
c. Property rights
d. Parliamentary systems
What do proponents of neoliberalism think about development?
- a. Development is basically random
b. Development is a matter of culture
c. Development is best accomplished using the free market.
d. Development is the state's responsibility
The author most known for arguing that economic development and social change arise from the interactions of social classes was:
- a. Thomas Friedman
b. Hendrik Spruyt
c. Milton Friedman
d. Karl Marx
How would social scientists characterize China's approach to securing economic growth over the last several decades?
- a. Export-led growth
b. Agro-export production
c. Debt-dependent growth
d. Import-substituting industrialization
On which of the following economic measures does the United States lead the world?
- a. Lowest level of poverty
b. Lowest level of inequality
c. Highest overall GDP
d. Highest GDP per capita
Which of the following world regions includes many cases often cited by proponents of state-led development?
- a. Africa
b. East Asia
c. North America
d. Latin America
Which of the following regions includes many cases that development scholars consider to have been problematic over the last several decades?
- a. India
b. Africa
c. East Asia
d. Latin America
Which of the following terms overlaps closely with the concepts of social connections and trust?
- a. Social capital
b. Human capital
c. Physical capital
d. Economic capital
Jared Diamond's argument about the causes of development focuses on structural factors beyond a country's control, most notably:
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a. Geography
b. Extractive institutions
c. Culture
d. Political leadership