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Which are major industrial regions of the world

• Eastern Europe

• Western Europe

• North America

• East Asia

• All of the above

Because the motor vehicle assembly industry is typically described as a bulk-gaining industry, Toyota's most important factor when selecting a location for a new assembly plant in the United States was

• minimizing the cost of shipping finished vehicles to its customers

• maximizing the cost of shipping finished vehicles to its customers

Two major benefits many LDCs offer in the financial services sector are

• command and control centers and low wages

• tax breaks and privacy

• privacy and low wages

Coke bottling is an example of

• specialized industry

• perishable industry

• bulk gaining industry

Which of the following is the best example of a primate city

• Paris

• Montreal

• NYC

• Washington DC

The most important cost in Weber's least cost theory is

• transportation cost

• labor cost

• land plot cost

What region of the world has the lowest Gender Development Index (GDI)?

• latin america

• south asia

• southeast asia

• sub sahara africa

What major factor has played the biggest role in the Asian Tigers’ economic success?

• an abundance of raw materials

• mass exporting of goods to the global market

• low land costs

The transfer of an automobile from a train to a truck at a distribution point is a good example of a(n)

• gross national product

• growth pole

• outsourcing

• break of bulk point

“Development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” is known as

• sustainable developement

• extractive industry

• topocide