Santiago, a Guatemalan entrepreneur, has started his own local paper-manufacturing company but fears that he won't be able to compete with international paper mills that already sell to Guatemalan businesses
To assist Santiago, the Guatemalan government has imposed tariffs on imported paper and extended his credit to enable the purchase of up-to-date equipment. This scenario exemplifies __________.
a. capital controls
b. foreign direct investment
c. import-substituting industrialization
d. the Washington Consensus
c
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Which of the following is NOT a factor in leading people to the erroneous notion that the homeless are almost all mentally ill?
a. viewing homelessness as an illness instead of a social condition b. difficulty in assessing the mental status of the homeless c. the high visibility of the homeless that are mentally ill d. lack of mass media attention to the problem of the homeless e. the tendency to blame deinstitutionalization for the problem of homelessness
When audiences hear on the nightly news that Santa Claus has left his North Pole home and is crossing Greenland and heading to the United States to deliver presents, they come to associate Greenland with the North Pole. This kind of learning process is known as
a. informal education. b. formal education. c. schooling. d. hidden curriculum.
The standard deviation of the distribution of means is also known as the
A) population standard deviation. B) variance of the error mean. C) standard error of the population. D) standard error of the mean.
________ means that women tend to cluster in the lower levels of virtually all occupational categories and are, therefore, accorded less prestige and lower salaries than men.
A. Beauty myth B. Gender role C. Slower advancement D. Ritualized deprivation