7.5 Stages of Economic Growth

According to Rostow's stages of economic growth model, what is the first stage of development?

• Preconditions for Takeoff

• Traditional Society

• Takeoff

• Drive to Maturity

Which country was the earliest to reach the maturity stage according to Rostow's model?

• Great Britain

• United States

• Canada

• Russia

What is the final stage in Rostow's stages of economic growth model?

• Traditional Society

• Preconditions for Takeoff

• Takeoff

• High Mass Consumption

What is one limitation of Rostow's stages of economic growth model?

• It doesn't consider geographic influences and challenges

• It assumes all countries will become mass consumers

• It doesn't take into account how countries influence each other

• All of the above

According to world system theory, which countries dominate and take advantage of peripheral countries for labor and raw materials?

• Core countries

• Peripheral countries

• Semi-peripheral countries

• None of the above

What is the core-periphery model a part of?

• Rostow's stages of economic growth model

• World system theory

• Walt W. Rostow's research

• None of the above

Which country is considered an industrializing, semi-peripheral country according to world system theory?

• Mexico

• Great Britain

• United States

• Russia

What is one factor that influences the speed of progression in Rostow's stages of economic growth model?

• Natural resource availability

• Productivity

• Political and social decision-making

• All of the above

What is the state in which a country's successes become the norm, or habit, according to Rostow's model?

• Traditional Society

• Preconditions for Takeoff

• Drive to Maturity

• High Mass Consumption

What is one criticism of Rostow's stages of economic growth model?

• It doesn't consider Earth's carrying capacity and new ecological limits

• It doesn't account for how countries influence one another

• It was based on the United States and Europe in the 1960s

• All of the above