10.3 Quiz Rubenstein

Rostow's economic development model, the stage in which workers become more skilled and modern technology spreads to industries beyond the innovating "takeoff" industry is called the

• traditional society

• preconditions for takeoff

• takeoff

• drive to maturity

• age of high mass consumption

In Immanuel Wallerstein's world system theory core countries in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries had an advantage in commerce and used this to

• subjugate and colonize peripheral and semiperipheral countries

• develop equal trading relationships with peripheral countries

• share technologies and economic practices with semiperipheral countries

• establish trading networks free of trade barriers with other core countries

Structural adjustment programs often encourage all the following EXCEPT

• selling off public resources to private corporations

• higher taxation rates

• closing of export-processing zones

• reducing government expenditures

• charging citizens more for government services

Core-periphery models of economic development generally describe the idea that

• the core dominates the periphery through cultural imperialism

• peripheries are often characterized by quaternary economic activities

• outsourcing is inevitable

• the development of core countries has been achieved at the expense of peripheral countries

• industrialization is a deterministic process

Rostow's model, developed in the early 1960s, was based upon the experience of

• financial economists

• Latin American countries

• China

• Western modernization

The principal structuralist alternative to Rostow's model of economic development is known as

• the "takeoff" model

• the liberal model

• the modernization model

• dependency theory

Theories which hold that economic disparities are built into the global economic system are referred to as

• structuralist theories

• modernization theories

• liberal theories

• neo-capitalist theories

The biggest problem in promoting development through the international trade approach is

• increased demand for many goods

• increased price of petroleum

• regional cooperation

• unequal distribution of resources

• consumer demand expanding faster than manufacturing growth

The principal benefit of the self-sufficiency approach is the promotion of

• balanced growth of all economic sectors

• global competitiveness for local industries

• the maintenance of a large bureaucracy

• unequal distribution of resources

• international trade

According to Rostow's development model, the process of development begins when

• a high percentage of national wealth is allocated to nonproductive activities

• an elite group supports investments in technology and infrastructure

• take-off industries achieve technical advances

• workers become more skilled and specialized

• banking institutions are sufficiently mature