Development Review

The measurement of a country's development using the dimensions a long healthy life, access to education, and a decent standard of living is called what?

• Gender Wage Gap

• Human Development Index

• Gross Domestic Product

• Development Model

The difference between the earnings of men and women is referred to as what?

• Gender Equality

• The Human Development Index

• The Demographic Transition Model

• The Gender Wage Gap

Which dimension of the HDI includes measuring the access that one has to goods and services, average income, and opportunities available?

• A long and healthy life

• Access to education

• A decent standard of living

Which of the following is a true reason for why women are disadvantaged in access to high-quality healthcare?

• Medical research has mostly been conducted on men

• Women have less access to health insurance

• It costs more for hospitals to care for women than men

Which of the following correctly explains life expectancy?

• The highest age people can reach in a particular country

• The quality of life one can expect being born into a certain group or country

• The average age that people in a particular group will be when they die

• The measure of overall development of a particular country

What is the overall goal of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals?

• Eliminate all forms of injustice in the United States

• To achieve a better more sustainable future for all

• Maintain the power and prestige of the United Nations

• Ensure women have equal rights to men

What is meant by the term "working poor"?

• People who are employed but are paid low wages and are still impoverished

• People who live in poverty because they refuse to work

• A "working" definition of what it means to be poor - the definition changes based on changing world circumstances

Which of the following groups is most likely to spend time doing unpaid caregiving work?

• Men

• Women

• Americans

• Europeans

What theory says that some countries (periphery) provide raw materials and are exploited by other countries (core) and that there are countries that both exploit other less developed countries and are exploited by more developed countries (semi-periphery)?

• Global Development Theory

• The Demographic Transition Theory

• Wallerstein's World Systems Theory

• The Human Development Index

Periphery countries are...

• Places where the economy is based on providing finished goods and services

• Places where the economy includes some extraction of raw materials, manufacturing, and limited providing of finished goods

• Places where the economy is concerned with the extraction of raw materials - mining, fishing, agriculture, and forestry