APHG Ch. 10.2 DeBlij

Development happens in context. To understand we some countries are rich and poor we need to:

• consider history

• consider multiple scales

• consider interactions with broader world

• all of these

The continuation of economic dependence even after political independence

• precondition to take-off.

• modernization model.

• neocolonialism.

• independence movement.

Theories which hold that economic inequalities are built into the global economic system

• structuralist theories.

• modernization theories.

• liberal theories.

• neo-capitalist theories.

Theory that treats countries as autonomous units moving through a process at different speeds

• Rostow's Modernization Model

• the dependency theory

Theory says that rich countries block development of poor countries historically and today

• Rostow's Modernization Theory

• Dependency Theory

• Sustainable Development

El Salvador abandoned its currency, the Colon, in favor of the U.S. dollar. This process is

• re-structuration.

• re-colonization.

• international monetizing.

• dollarization.

Wallerstein’s three-tier regionalization of the world includes all of the following EXCEPT

• core.

• semi-core

• periphery.

• semi-periphery.

World systems theory is different than Rostow's Modernization model in that it

• focused on context/relationships b/w countries

• states poor countries CAN NOT be equally wealthy as rich countries

• makes explicit power relationships

• all of these

Wallerstein's three-tier structure looks at _____ goods are produced.

• what

• how

• when

Countries that have both low levels of HDI and also high younger-person dependency ratios?

• core

• island of development

• semi-periphery

• periphery