Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) is a method for adjusting per capita GDP to better compare development across countries.
2. While the global population under extreme poverty has declined, the number of countries categorized as LDCs has remained largely constant.
3. The Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals are chiefly concerned with economic growth in LDCs.
4. Extreme poverty refers to the share of the poorest LDCs.
5. Increasing a country’s wealth and improving the welfare of people is as much a product of planning as it is luck.
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. True
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a. dependency theory. c. world-systems theory. b. modernization theory. d. self-reliance theory.
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a. Republicans b. Communists c. Democrats d. Socialists e. Independents
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a. created affirmative action quotas for all medical schools. b. rejected the outright use of racial quotas in college admissions but allowed race to be used as one of several factors in admissions. c. required that a quota for white students be used if there is also an existing quota for non-whites. d. required racial quotas for all college admission procedures. e. identified and prohibited the process of “reverse discrimination.”