Ch3 Development Project International Dimensions Test Bank - Complete Test Bank Development and Social Change 6e with Answers by Philip McMichael. DOCX document preview.
Development and Social Change, 6th edition
Philip McMichael
Chapter 3: Development Project – International Dimensions
Test Bank
1. Development project is also an "international" project in all these respects except:
a. it created an unequal relationship between the colonized countries in the South and the colonizers in the North countries
b. colonized nations were formed within an international framework, including the United Nations, Bretton Woods Institutions
c. it introduced colonized states to international project
d. colonial division of labor required continuous exchange of resources and manufactured goods between Western countries and developing nations.
Answer location: International Framework
Page Number: 55
2. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY. The pursuit of national economic growth in the former colonies depended on a specific type of material international relationships. Which is it?
a. technology transfer
b. foreign aid and international trade relationships
c. import substitution
d. development expert advisories
Answer location: International Framework
Page Number: 56
3. The development project emerged within the _____ and formalized under the _____ program.
a. Western Hemisphere, foreign aid
b. United Nations system, globalization
c. Marshall Plan, Bretton Woods
d. Cold War, Armistice
Answer location: International Framework
Page Number: 57
4. US Bilateralism as reflected in the Marshall Plan was a response to the threat from:
a. US colonies
b. Soviet Union/Communism
c. disgruntled US workers
d. US allies
Answer location: US Bilateralism
Page Number: 57
5. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are called Bretton Woods institutions because:
a. they were formed in the Woods
b. they were established by Mr. Bretton
c. they were established during a meeting at Breton Woods
d. it is a United Nations designation
Answer location: Multilateralism - Bretton Woods
Page Number: 58
6. The function of the World Bank is to _____, while that of the International Monetary Fund is to ________
a. create industrialization infrastructure; capitalize projects
b. finance development projects; disburse credit to stabilize national currencies
c. assist investments in First World countries; make profits for US government
d. promote import substitution policies; disburse agricultural credit
Answer location: Multilateralism - Bretton Woods
Page Number: 58
7. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY: The functions of the Bretton Woods institutions were to:
a. stabilize national finances and revitalize international trade
b. underwrite national economic growth through funding of development projects
c. expand Third World primary exports to generate foreign currency for First World exports
ensure self-sufficiency of Third World countries
Answer location: Multilateralism - Bretton Woods
Page Number: 58
8. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY: Which of the following preconditions must be met for a country to receive financial assistance from the IMF and/or World Bank?a.Export-orientated markets
b.Privatization
c. Increased interest rates
d.Currency devaluation
Answer location: Multilateralism - Bretton Woods
Page Number: 58-59
9. As a result of preconditions set by the World Bank and/or IMF, in what way(s) must governments of developing nations act?
a. Spend less and reduce consumption
b. Spend more and reduce consumption
c. Spend less and increase consumption
d. Spend more and increase consumption
Answer location: Multilateralism - Bretton Woods
Page Number: 58-59
10. The Bretton Woods system reflects the interests and policies of First World countries because:
a. President of the World Bank selected by the United States president,
b. Managing director of IMF is appointed by the largest European nations
c. All Third World countries have to pay subscriptions into the World Bank
d. Third World countries were colonized the First World countries
Answer location: Multilateralism - Bretton Woods
Page Number: 59
11. The World Bank establishes institutional presence in Third World countries through
a. semi-autonomous agencies and representatives to administer funded projects
b. Technology transfer from East-West agencies
c. Tax-assisted projects in the Third World
d. Weekly meetings with Third world representatives
Answer location: Multilateralism - Bretton Woods
Page Number: 59
12. One of the political motivations for foreign aid was to:
a. supply arms to political parties
b. undercut competition from nations with rival political ideologies such as socialism
c. appease Third World governments
d. secure tax concessions from Third World countries
Answer location: Politics of Postwar World Order
Page Number: 60
13. One of the main differences between the Western and Soviet foreign-aid system is that:
a. under the Soviets, loans could be repaid over an indefinite period
b. under the Western system, loans could be repaid in the form of traditional exports
c. under the Soviets, loans could be repaid in local currencies
d. under the Western system, loans have to be repaid in 5 years
Answer location: Politics of Postwar World Order
Page Number: 60
14. One immediate consequence of the non-aligned movement was
a. increase in military budgets
b. decrease in social investments in the Third World
c. establishment of several international banks
d. increase in soft loans to Third World nations
Answer location:Non-Aligned Movement
Page Number: 61
15. The Group of 77 (G77) and GATT are related to each other, but different in one respect. Which is it?
a. The G77 was formed under pressure from Third World countries
b. The GATT adjusted for the uneven effects of colonialism in trade negotiations
c. The G77 demanded flexible commodity market prices
d. The GATT focuses only on First World markets
Answer location: The Group of 77
Page Number: 62
16. UNCTAD had a limited world-economic impact, but was successful in one important respect. Which is it?
a. it blocked the World Bank from appointing Robert McNamara
b. allowed international agencies to focus on Third World perspectives in their programs
c. it forced the US government to increase tax concessions
d. It allowed the Group of 77 to reassess its goals
Answer location: The Group of 77
Page Number: 62
17. Which of the following countries are not NICs?
a. Taiwan.
b. Singapore.
c. North Korea.
d. Hong Kong.
Answer location: The Newly Industrializing Countries
Page Number: 63
18. The rise of NICs revealed two sides of the development project, one of which is:
a. The rise of military spending in the US
b. The failure of the development project
c. The lack of selectivity in the development project
d. The rise of living standards and upward mobility in middle-income countries
Answer location: The Newly Industrializing Countries
Page Number: 63
19. The rise of NICs revealed the selectivity of the development project because:
a. private investment only focused on some sectors - such as export production facilities in textiles and electronics
b. it focused on selective interests in cold-war driven military equipment
c. the emphasis was on mass conversion of public industries into private entities
d. private industries only focused on agricultural production
Answer location: The Newly Industrializing Countries
Page Number: 63
20. What are the NICs?
a. Newly Independent Countries
b. Newly Industrialized Countries
c.Non-Investing Countries
d. Newly Invented Currencies (such as the Euro)
Answer location: The Newly Industrializing Countries
Page Number: 63
21. One way for a nation to create a trade surplus is through the development of local industries to produce items that a country had been importing. This is known as
a. Import development
b. Internal growth regeneration
c. Import substitution
d. Import Trade Liberalization
Answer location: International Framework
Page Number: 56
22. What is a negative consequence of international food aid?
a. major humanitarian catastrophe is averted.
b. Increase in price of imported foods.
c. Local farmers are unable to compete and are forced out of jobs.
d. Local people have no need to travel to obtain food.
Answer location: The Food Aid Regime
Page Number: 67
23. The Food Aid Regime occurred because
a. failure of Title IV programs
b. food aid was used to subside farmers in First World
c. food aid was transmitted through the military intervention
d. US agricultural model created surplus food which was sent to Third World countries as aid
Answer location: The Food Aid Regime
Page Number: 67
24. One function of the Food Aid Regime is
a. generate food surpluses to subsidize Third World wages with cheap food
b. channel food aid through government agencies
c. neutralize the effects of colonialism
d. disseminate the benefits of development project
Answer location: The Food Aid Regime
Page Number: 67
25. Which of the three Public Law 480 components affect food aid:
a. Title 1
b. Title 2
c. Title 3
d. Title 4
Answer location: The Public Law 480 Program
Page Number: 67
26. Under Public Law 480, as passed in 1954, the United States:
a. established a minimum wage to be applied throughout the U.S.
b. distributed surplus food abroad in exchange for local currencies.
c. introduced the first purchase and storage price support programs.
d. imposed price controls on gasoline in light of an expected shortage.
Answer location: The Food Aid Regime
Page Number: 67
27. South Korea was a food aid success story because
a. the country abided by US standards
b. the country subsidized local agriculture against imported food
c. the government centralized management of its rice culture and supply of labor to the industrial centers.
d. the country reduced prices on imported foods
Answer location: Food Dependency
Page Number: 68
28. Food aid created food dependency because
a. it allowed First World to donate free food without conditions
b. it was not subsidized
c. it created urban population class with exclusive foreign tastes
d. it allowed governments to purchase food without depleting scarce foreign currency
Answer location: Food Dependency
Page Number: 68
29. Despite its promises, one weakness of the green revolution relates to
a. it's focus on measurable out of plant-breeding agricultural technologies
b. the social and ecological consequences of agricultural technological advances
c. its failure to subsidize urban agriculture
d. its emphasis on modern agriculture
Answer location: Green Revolution
Page Number: 73
30. Which of the following is not characteristic of the Green Revolution?
a. mechanized agriculture
b. hybrid seeds
c. slash and burn
d. monoculture
Answer location: Green Revolution
Page Number: 73-75
True/False
31. The UN declared the 1980s and 1990s to be the "Development Decades".
a. True
b. False
Answer location: International Framework
Page Number: 55
32. Bretton Woods system is responsible for the underdevelopment of the Third World Countries
a. True
b. False
Answer location: International Framework
Page Number: 55
33. Marshall Plan demonstrate that foreign aid is never neutral, and that it is tied to ideological, material and financial motivations.
a. True
b. False
Answer location: US Bilateralism
Page Number: 57
35. The World Bank mandates loans for large-scale infrastructural projects
a. True
b. False
Answer location: Multilateralism - Bretton Woods
Page Number: 59
36. The non-aligned movement was a response to the increasing interference of First World policies in the Third World
a. True
b. False
Answer location: Non-Aligned Movement
Page Number: 61
37. One weakness of the UNCTAD is that it re-emphasized quantitative or income-based measures of development
a. True
b. False
Answer location: The Group of 77
Page Number: 62
38. The Food Aid Regime operates on a global, instead of a national scale.
a. True
b. False
Answer location: The Food Aid Regime
Page Number: 67
39. Shipments of food aid were NOT paid for in counterpart funds - local currencies placed in US local bank accounts.
a. True
b. False
Answer location: The Food Aid Regime
Page Number: 67
40. Petro-farming and high-yielding varieties of hybrid seeds are examples of
the green revolution.
a. True
b. False
Answer location: The Green Revolution
Page Number: 74
Short
Answer location: International Framework
Page Number: 55
42. What are the aims of the Marshall Plan? In what ways does it contribute to the development project?
Answer location: US Bilateralism
Page Number: 57
43. What roles did the Bretton Woods institutions in the implementation of the development project?
Answer location: Multilateralism - Bretton Woods
Page Number: 59
44. The Bretton Woods system reflects the interests and policies of First World countries. Discuss.
Answer location: Multilateralism - Bretton Woods
Page Number: 59
45. Why did commercial agriculture concentrate in the First World, while manufacturing dispersed to the Third World?
Is there a relation between these trends?
Answer location: The Newly Industrializing Countries
Page Number: 65
46. Development critiques argue that "Public Law 480" is a double-edged sword. Examine this assertion with respect to the effect of food aid in both “developed” and “developing” nations?
Answer location: The Food Aid Regime
Page Number: 67
47. What is the relationship between food aid and class relations? In what way(s) does this relationship contribute to food shortages and starvation in the developing countries.
Answer location:The Food Aid Regime
Page Number: 67
48. What is the Green Revolution and why is it important to agricultural development in the Third World
Answer location:The Green Revolution
Page Number: 74-75
49. What are the implications of the green revolution for the development project? In what ways does these effects continue today.
Answer location:The Green Revolution
Page Number: 74-75
50. Define Urban bias and discuss its relevance to the development project.
Answer location: Anti-Rural Biases of the Development Project
Page Number: 75-76
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