Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Inequality is higher in middle-income countries like Mexico even though absolute poverty is quite low there.
2. Most of Nigeria’s economic policy is focused on oil revenue.
3. Postmodern theories argue that they very idea of development is an effort by wealthy countries to control the Global South.
4. Comparative advantage holds that well-being will be maximized if each country uses its resources to produce whatever it can produce relatively efficiently compared with other countries.
5. According to ISI, by increasing the number of imported manufactured products, postcolonial governments can encourage domestic and international investment in new industries.
1. True
2. True
3. True
4. True
5. False
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World-system theory divides the world into
a. democratic and non-democratic nations. b. core, periphery, and semi-periphery areas. c. bourgeoisie and proletariat. d. capitalist and command economies. e. Global North and Global South.
Hoffman would not consider the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be acts of terror because __________
a. they were perpetrated by a state b. they were not intended to have psychological effects c. they were conducted in wartime d. both cities were military targets
If you know that someone is Asian, can you predict with much certainty what language he or she speaks?
A. Yes
B. No
The Supreme Court's decision in the University of California Regents v. Bakke case
A. established quota systems as a legitimate basis of affirmative action. B. upheld the principle of affirmative action while invalidating a particular means of achieving it. C. invalidated the principle of affirmative action. D. ruled that Bakke could not be admitted to medical school. E. None of these answers is correct.