Ch8 Exam Questions - Globalization Project In Crisis - 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 8 - Globalization Project in Crisis
Test Bank
1. The goal of The Guardian Weekly's article, "Has Globalization Hit the Wall?", is to:
a. demonstrate the inability of neoliberal economic policies to shield citizens from its uncertainty and volatile financial markets
b, demonstrate the inability of globalization to protect the poor
c. to portray globalization as a monstrous force eaten by its deeds
d. to portray the helplessness of globalization in the face of rising poverty in the global south, and income inequality in the global north.
Answer Location: globalization project in crisis
Page Number: 215.
2. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY: Which event(s), according to Lawrence Summers, signaled the moment the United States lost its role as an underwriter of the global economic system?
a. China's creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Rank
b. US political infighting
c. tight budgets and competing financial demands
d. rise of the age of Obama
Answer Location: globalization project in crisis
Page Number: 215.
3. Aside from the unpopularity of the global economy, one other event signaling the crisis in the globalized economy is:
a. the weakness of the network of international rules and institutions and its replacement by regional trade alliances.
b. the erosion of the globalized nation state and its replacement by true nation-centered states
c. the opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership
d. the emergence of India and South Korea as beacons of new development regimes.
Answer Location: globalization project in crisis
Page Number: 215.
4. The textbook suggests that the problem of globalization is recycled as its solution, which in turn deepens the crisis. This cyclical process is evidenced by:
a. recycling of austerity measures in the global south and north
b. the movement of development experts between the global north and south.
c. the relocation of industries from north to south
d. the reverse brain-drain of expertise from global north to south.
Answer Location: Social Crisis
Page Number: 216
5. The sources of the social crisis in the globalization project has been traced to:
a. changes in the international division of labor
b. dependency
c. commodification of love
d. changes in the global labor force
Answer Location: Social Crisis
Page Number: 216
6. The source of the social crisis in the globalization project has been traced to changes in global labor force because:
a. labor has been de-commodified
b. job insecurity has been the norm in global north owing to increasing commodification of labor
c. the price and value of labor has fallen
d. the demand for labor has exceeded its supply
Answer Location: Social Crisis
Page Number: 216
7. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY: The social crisis is a crisis of development promise because
a. the global north failed to fulfill its promises of being a development model
b. loss of job security and job benefits in the global north due to increasing labor costs
c. proliferation of job opportunities in the global south, due to offshoring, has not translated into gains for national governments
d. the global south failed to imitate and benefit from developments in the global north
Answer Location: Social Crisis
Page Number: 217
8. The following events - increasing poverty in the United States, financial crisis in the global north, reduction in government spending in the name of debt reduction as well as the Occupy Movement of 2011 -- are all indicators and consequences of
a. state-centered development
b. the effect and responses to neoliberalist policies such as structural adjustment programs
c. decline of austerity reforms
d. globalization and its countermovements
Answer Location: Social Crisis
Page Number: 218
9. One consequence of the globalization crisis is the bifurcation between global consumer class and the large casual and unemployed labor force. This is bifurcation is best exemplified by______
a. rising labor disputes in the global south
b. reduced loyalty to skilled employees and shareholder
c. loss of job security to unskilled or flexible labor
d. politicization of labor
Answer Location: Social Crisis
Page Number: 219
10. According to the text, the globalization and its related labor crisis has stimulated "Latin Americanization" of southern Europe. This means
a. it extended Latin American political practices to Europe
b. it politicized European nations by Latin American influences
c. it opened southern Europe to Latin American immigraiont
d. it has stimulated new forms of political mobilization in southern Europe just as it did in Latin American countries.
Answer Location: Social Crisis
Page Number: 220
11. Pademos is a unique type of political "party movement" because
a. its agenda is non-ideological and based on grassroots, participatory democracy
b. it is anti-authoritarian/anti-corruption in its ideology
c. it is just like Syriza movement in Greece
d. it is influenced by Latin American philosophers
Answer Location: Social Crisis
Page Number: 220
12. The failure of development project to fulfill its promises and the inability of the Millennium Development goals to achieve its targets illustrate the fact that globalization is facing:
a. an identity crisis
b. a performance evaluation
c. a legitimacy crisis
d. internal divisions
Answer Location: Legitimacy Crisis
Page Number: 222
13. The legitimacy crisis is doubly expressed in the refusal/inability of the developing agencies to _______ and the refusal/inability to refocus on how neoliberal development ________
a. address global inequality; aids the rich more than the poor
b. develop sustainable policies; programs debt relief
c. address environmental challenges; sustainable development
d. address fiscal austerity; exacerbates inequality
Answer Location: Legitimacy Crisis
Page Number: 222
14. The focus of globalization on the poor has weaknesses: it ignores the difference between relative and absolute poverty, but also
a. ignores gender differences in poverty
b. blames the poor for their condition and ignores structural inequality
c. ignores racial-ethnic differences in poverty
d. assumes that all poor are equally affected by globalization
Answer Location: Legitimacy Crisis
Page Number: 223
15. The implication of the The World Development Report, "Mind, Society and Behavior" is that the poor are
a. not responsible for their poverty
b. structural factors are responsible for poverty
c. are responsible for their poverty, and the solutions require behavior change on the part of the poor
d. structural factors mediate the interpersonal factors leading to poverty.
Answer Location: Legitimacy Crisis
Page Number: 223
16. A concrete indicator of globalization's control and surveillance of the poor, as reported in the textbook, is:
a. restricting poor people's access to resources through official and government approved channels
b. ensuring that that the poor can only benefit from social service programs
c. limiting the poor to income generating activities
d. ensuring the poor have access to capital through micro-credit enterprises
leading to poverty.
Answer Location: Legitimacy Crisis
Page Number: 224
17. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY. Microfinance programs perform all these tasks simultaneously:
a. provide credit to the poor for self-maximization
b. deepening and improving market relations
c. enlarging financial opportunities to the poor
d. gives primacy to the role of financial capital
Answer Location: Legitimacy Crisis
Page Number: 224
18. While microcredit is noted for its empowerment of marginalized women, its critiques claim that it is "bankrolling the poor", implying that:
a. while it creates new micro-enterprises, it also produces new class/gender inequalities
b. it creates new dependencies
c. it increases the status of men
d. it ensures that women are co-dependent on their paternal social structures.
Answer Location: Legitimacy Crisis
Page Number: 225
19. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY: Critiques of microcredit claim that it has replaced social networks of survival with "empowerment debt" which has proven to be a double-edged sword because:
a. it created new dependencies reflecting gender and class inequalities
b. loans often are used to meet daily consumption needs
c. there are intergenerational effects of the debt, with young girls taken out of school to make loan payments
d. it exploits the middle class to support loans for the poor.
Answer Location: Legitimacy Crisis
Page Number: 225
20. The sovereign debt crisis is exacerbated by membership in the European Union because
a. it exposed the vulnerability of the weaker states to austere loan conditions of the European Central Bank and the IMF
b. it exposed the hypocrisy of the development project as European nations are also experiencing debt burden
c. the European Central Bank has limited cash assets
d. it exposed the weakness of the nation state in the age of globalization
Answer Location:Greek/European Tragedy
Page Number: 226
21. The Greek bailout exposed the limitations of the European Union (EU) because
a. the Greek lacked the institutions to cope with bailout pressures
b. the Greek had to much debt the EU couldn't defray
c. the EU lacked European-wide institutions with powers to coordinate the economic policies of member states
d. taxpayer resentment was strong enough to doubt the efficacy of the bailout programs
Answer Location:Greek/European Tragedy
Page Number: 226
22. The legitimacy crisis of the neoliberal development originated in Latin America because
a. a socialist revolution swept the continent
b. an anti-globalization movement swept the continent
c. a communist revolution had swept the continent
d. a democratic revolution had swept the continent
Answer Location:Latin Rebellion
Page Number: 228
23. Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez financed his 'Bolvarian Revolution' which expanded health care and education to its citizens though a process called resource nationalism, which demanded that:
a. foreign oil companies enter into joint ventures, with the Venezuelan state holding at 60% of the capital.
b. involvement of the country's elite at all levels of government and decision making
c. repayment of loans from the state at high interest rates
d. economic independence from the United States
Answer Location:Latin Rebellion
Page Number: 228
24. Ideologically, the 'resource nationalism' advocated by Venezuela, is built on a:
a. deep love for the nation-state
b. historic antipathy towards foreign control and suspicion of the white-settler elite in Latin America
c. Marxist theories on resource extraction
d. anti-globalization rhetoric
Answer Location:Latin Rebellion
Page Number: 228
25. Resource Nationalism is practiced in all of the following countries, except:
a. Venezuela
b. Peru
c. Bolivia
d. Mexico
Answer Location:Latin Rebellion
Page Number: 228
26. The Arab Spring demonstrated the necessity of _____ as the cornerstone of the development debate.
a. social inclusion
b. social freedoms
c. participatory democracy
d. participatory freedoms
Answer Location: Arab Spring
Page Number: 230
27. The GR20 was formed to:
a. lead an effective opposition to global north's attempts to retain their unequal economic power through the WTO
b. to pressure global north for trade concessions
c. to control Latin American oil reserves
d. to lead an effective opposition to global north's attempts at agricultural innovations and experiments in the global south
Answer Location: Geopolitical Transitions
Page Number: 233
28. India is experiencing a shift from provision of global services to manufacturing domestic products because:
a. lower demand for offshore services from the US
b. Indian education is unable to meet the demands for skilled software operatives
c. more educational incentives for training engineers
d. need for higher-skilled labor in the manufacturing sector
Answer Location: India
Page Number: 236
29. The Beijing Consensus is different from and more effective than the Washington Consensus because
a. it is developed with the interests and concerns of the global south in mind
b. China has become a major player in the global economy
c. China's stable (but repressive) politics and high speed economic growth has become a model for other global south countries
d. The Beijing Consensus is backed by communist philosophy.
Answer Location: China
Page Number: 240
30. The "nutrition transition' has produced dietary bifurcation along class lines. Affluent consumers are more likely to have access to _______, while the poor have access to _________
a. western foods; locally produced food
b. plant-based diets; animal protein, carbohydrates
c. commercial food; farm-produced food.
d. healthy (organic) diets; highly processed high-calorie foods.
Answer Location: Nutrition/Health Crisis
Page Number: 241
31. According to text, the promises of neoliberalism are not an illusion, but actually real.
True
False
Answer Location: Global Countermovements
Page Number: 179
32. Rowstow's "age of high mass consumption" is now attainable to majority of global citizens
True
False
Answer Location: Social Crisis
Page Number: 217
33. The social crisis in globalization is a crisis of the development promise, affecting the global north and south simulltaneouly. This means..
a. True
b. False
Answer Location: Social Crisis
Page Number: 217
34. Economies in the global North are also experiencing the same structural adjustment policies experienced by global south countries in 1980s. due to the globalization crisis.
a. True
b. False
Answer Location: Social Crisis
Page Number: 217
35. In neoliberal terms, then, unemployment is a matter of individual responsibility: people came to be regarded as more or less ‘employable’ and the answer was to make them more employable, upgrading their ‘skills’ or reforming their ‘habits’ and ‘attitudes'.
a. True
b. False
Answer Location: Social Crisis
Page Number: 222
36. A major weakness of the European Union is the resentment of the stronger states (such as Germany, France) at the paying for the perceived profligacy of the citizens of the weaker states (such as Greek).
a. True
b. False
Answer Location:Greek/European Tragedy
Page Number: 226
37. Resource nationalism is practiced in Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico.
a. True
b. False
Answer Location:Latin Rebellion
Page Number: 228
38. India is experiencing a shift from provision of global services to manufacturing domestic products and this is manifested in the industrial park program in 'global/satellite cities" such as Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Chennai.
a. True
b. False
Answer Location: India
Page Number: 236
39. The Beijing Consensus has the same goals and same achievements as the Washington Consensus a. True
b. False
Answer Location: China
Page Number: 240
40. Nutritionalization is an attempt to depoliticize malnutrition through fortification of processed foods.
a. True
b. False
Answer Location: Nutrition/Health Crisis
Page Number: 241
41.The textbook describes the global economy as "casino-like". Briefly explain this designation.
Answer Location: globalization project in crisis
Page Number: 215.
42. According to the textbook, the social crisis stemming from the globalization crises manifests itself in two ways. Briefly discuss these.
Answer Location: Social Crisis
Page Number: 218
43. According to the textbook, the legitimacy crisis is doubly expressed in which ways?
Answer Location: Legitimacy Crisis
Page Number: 222
44. As reported in the textbook, an Indian commentator made this statement with reference to the role of the poor in poverty alleviation: "the poor have no influence on economic destiny, so a refocus on billionaire investors’ behavior is necessary". Explain this statement with poverty alleviation approaches under globalization.
Answer Location: Legitimacy Crisis
Page Number: 223
45. In what way has the Arab Spring contributed to our understanding of globalization and its discontents?
Answer Location: Arab Spring
Page Number: 230
46. Explain why the G20’s appearance signaled a turning point in the balance of global forces.
Answer Location: Geopolitical Transitions
Page Number: 233
47. Explain Nutritionalization and Biofortification.
Answer Location: Nutrition/Health Crisis
Page Number: 241
48. The challenges of environmental degradation can be traced back to development theory. Briefly discuss this assertion.
Answer Location: Human/Nature Separation
Page Number: 243
49. Define the Beijing Consensus, and explain its relevance to globalization and its practice.
Answer Location: China
Page Number: 240-241
50. What is Virtual Water and its importance in in the crisis of renewable water resources.
Answer Location: Human/Nature Separation
Page Number: 245
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