Ch 9 KI 2 HDI

Of the following, which are the regions with highest HDI/MDC?

• Anglo-America

• Europe

• Japan

• Oceania

Of the following, which has the lowest HDI/LDC's

• Sub-saharan Africa

• Japan

• Latin America

• Southeast Asia

• South Asia

Of the following, which has the highest % of tertiary-sector employees as well as is the leading provider of food, financial and management services, sports and entertainment but has become less dominant in manufacturing steel and cars

• Anglo-America

• Europe

• Russia

• Japan

• East Asia

A negative contribution to the regional HDI in Europe is

• During the Cold War, there was the Democratic West and Communist East

• The region is highly dependent on international trade

• The region is reliant on high value goods to pay for imports

• The recent recession highlighted the region's regional and economic disparities

Why was the US ranked 13th in HDI in 2009?

• Has a high GDP per capita - positive contribution

• Has a high literacy rate - positive contribution

• Has a lower education rate - negative contribution

• Has a lower life expectancy - negative contribution

The positive regional factors of: More united as the European Union, Having the world's largest and richest market, and having 15 of the 19 countries with the highest HDI rankings are in which region?

• Anglo-America

• Europe

• East Asia

• Southeast Asia

• South Asia

Which region's had a difficult transition from a planned to market economy after the Fall of Communism and is a significant producer of oil?

• Russia

• Anglo America

• Latin America

• East Asia

• Southeast Asia

Japan

• has different cultural tradition from the more homogenous Anglo-America and Europe

• has an unfavorable ratio of population to resources but a highly trained, highly educated skilled labor force that makes high quality, high value products such as electronics, cars, and cameras

• used their abundant supply of cheap labor for development during the 1970's-1990's

• overcame distance and geographical isolation from consumers by using better transportation, communication, and technology

In Oceania, the HDI of Australia and New Zealand are large exporters of food, are comparable to the development of other MDC's as Australia is a leader in mining, are 90% of the population as descendants of British settlers, but the island countries are less populated and less successful

• True

• False

In which region is the population concentrated along the South Atlantic Coast and in large urban areas such as Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City with an unequal income distribution with wide disparity between the have's and have-not's?

• Southwest Asia and North Africa

• East Asia

• Latin America

• Anglo America

• Central Asia