APHG Ch. 10.3 DeBlij

Young girls trafficked from the periphery to wealthier regions most often work as

• domestic workers/street vendors.

• industrial labor.

• agricultural labor.

• construction workers.

The________of the UN are aimed at improving the conditions of the people with lowest standard of living

• Dependency Ratios

• Modernization Models

• Millennium Development Goals

• International Monetary Fund

Theorists have created development models to help countries develop; these models are used as guides by:

• Governments

• Non-governmental organizations

• International financial institutions

• All of the above

In order to secure structural adjustment loans countries often have to

• privatize government entities.

• open up to foreign trade.

• cut social, education, health spending for its people

• all of the above

neo-classical economic idea: government involvement in economy/market is NEGATIVE

• capitalism

• Keynesian economics

• neoliberalism

• socialism

The example of Zimbabwe illustrates which barrier to development?

• Unchecked industrial growth

• Corrupt leadership

• Defaulting on foreign debt

• Educational access

Argentina’s severe economic crisis in 2001 & default on its external debt in 2002 was triggered by

• Neoliberal reforms

• High debt obligation

• Unchecked government spending

• All of the above

Sub-saharan Africa has lost more than 270,000 square miles of farmland in the past 50 years due to

• Mechanization

• NAFTA

• Tourism

• Desertification

Barriers to development include all of the following EXCEPT

• social conditions.

• biodiversity.

• foreign debt

• disease.

In peripheral countries it is not unusual for hotels in tourist areas to be owned by

• worker’s cooperatives.

• local or regional governments.

• local owner operators.

• multinational corporations.