Chapter 5: The Globalization Project: Processes, Experiences, and Implications

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. The globalization project succeeded the development project because ______.

a. development has transitioned from a nationally managed economic growth to participation in world market

b. development is extinct

c. development became globalization

d. development project became globalized in all nations

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Globalization Project: Processes, Experiences and Implications

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Globalization is a project because ______.

a. it is a project with specific goals

b. it has political dimensions and involves international players

c. it entrenches nation states in the global world

d. globalization is manipulated by political forces

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Globalization Project: Processes, Experiences and Implications

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. 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.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Neoliberal Governance of Development and Poverty: IFIs and the WTO

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. The globalization project is different from the development project because the ______.

a. the development project emerged first

b. the globalization project is about national sovereignty

c. the globalization project, with its focus on free international enterprise super seeds governments

d. the globalization project erases national boundaries

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Informalization

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. The “Kerala Model” is known not only for its avoidance of the market-driven development model, but also ______.

a. dependence on remittance from its expatriates

b. acceptance of IMF loans

c. refusal of tax credits

d. high rates of crime

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Migrant Labor: The New Export

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. The vast majority of workers in EPZs are all of the following EXCEPT ______.

a. young women

b. young men

c. migrants

d. long-term workers

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Export Processing Zone

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Work in EPZs is characterized by all of the following except ______.

a. the use of contractors or subcontractors

b. low-skill work with low wages

c. short-term work assignments

d. unionized workers

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Export Processing Zone

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Most EPZ are located in ______.

a. Third World countries

b. Western Europe

c. USA and Canada

d. Australia

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Export Processing Zone

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. The vision of the globalization project was ______.

a. establishment of the World Trade Organization

b. implementation of World Trade Organizations rules

c. implementation of classical economic plans

d. implementation of free markets via restructuring of nation-state economic policies

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Displacement

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. ______ create specialized manufacturing export zones.

a. IFIs

b. GATTs

c. FTZs

d. WTO

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Export Processing Zone

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. JINCO is a multinational company wishing to invest in India. The Indian government is interested in the partnership but requires JINCO to invest its profits locally, hire locally, and buy its raw materials from the country. JINCO disagrees and decides to seek relief from the WTO. Which of these WTO protocols would JINCO use?

a. Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs)

b. Trade-Related Medication Programs (TRMPs)

c. Trade-Related Intellectual Rights (TRIRs)

d. Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs)

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Export Processing Zone

Difficulty Level: Medium

Multiple Response

1. SELECT 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

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Neoliberal Governance of Development and Poverty: IFIs and the WTO

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. SELECT 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.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Neoliberal Governance of Development and Poverty: IFIs and the WTO

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following promote outsourcing?

a. IFI

b. TNC

c. GAT

d. MNC

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Outsourcing and the (new) Global Division of Labor

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative is one example of the Social Emergency Fund and the Compensatory and Contingency Financing Facility created by the International Financial Institutions.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Neoliberal Governance of Development and Poverty: IFIs and the WTO

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. South Africa’s decision to privatize and outsource Telkom disproportionately limited services for the poor.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Outsourcing and the (new) Global Division of Labor

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. As manufacturing moves to the global south, a “great turnaround” occurs when labor from the south also moves to the global north.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Global Labor-Sourcing Politics and Migration

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. The spread of “gated communities”, racist violence toward “guest workers” are all consequences of displacement of poor labor from the global south

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Displacement

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. “Displacement of love” is NOT synonymous with “global heart transplant”.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Displacement

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. The first EPZ appeared in Shannon, Ireland in 1968.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Export Processing Zone

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Globalization project and development project are synonymous.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Informalization

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. According to the World Bank, the augmentation of the HIPC initiative in Africa is a confirmation of the effectiveness of neoliberalism.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Neoliberal Governance of Development and Poverty: IFIs and the WTO

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. HIPC and SAP are two debt relief programs for Third World countries. Despite their differences, the HIPC is merely new wine in old wine-skins.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Neoliberal Governance of Development and Poverty: IFIs and the WTO

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. The globalization project did not begin on any particular date, but it signifies a new way of thinking about development.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Neoliberal Governance of Development and Poverty: IFIs and the WTO

Difficulty Level: Easy

Short Answer

1. Briefly explain “globalization project”:

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Informalization

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. What is the relationship between development and globalization?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Neoliberal Governance of Development and Poverty: IFIs and the WTO

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. What is the debt regime and how did it arise?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Displacement

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. Using insights from Chapter 4 and 5, what is the link between neo-liberalist policies (such as structural adjustment program) and the development/operation of free trade or export processing zones?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The World Factory

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Examine the link between structural adjustment programs/policies and health. That is, how does structural adjustment affect health of vulnerable populations such as women?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Neoliberal Governance of Development and Poverty: IFIs and the WTO

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Briefly explain the difference between Structural Adjustment Programs (SAP) and Poverty Reduction Strategic Papers program (PRSP).

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Neoliberal Governance of Development and Poverty: IFIs and the WTO

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. What is outsourcing and why is it significant in contemporary development discourse?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Outsourcing and the (new) Global Division of Labor

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. What is the role of information and communication technologies in outsourcing?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Export Processing Zone

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. What is the “great turnaround” with respect to offshore labor.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Global Labor-Sourcing Politics and Migration

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. The transnational peasant coalition Vía Campesina notes, “The massive movement of food around the world is forcing the increased movement of people.” Briefly explain this statement with reference to displacement.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Displacement

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Discuss the two aspects of informalization. What are their effects and how are they connected to globalization in practice?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Informalization

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Why is the Kerala Model of development touted as the solution to self-sustenance in Third World countries?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Migrant Labor: The New Export

Difficulty Level: Medium