WorksheetsInternational Politics
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
The IMF primary role is to:
Administer structural adjustment programs
Assist countries in dealing with short term balance of payments problems
Contribute to development in poor countries
Lend money to developing countries
The 2008 credit crisis originated in the:
Thailand real estate market
US sub-prime mortgage market
Russian oil industry
Brazilian banking industry
A government or corporation that gets a poor credit rating from a credit rating agency must:
Apologize to its creditors
Cease borrowing on international markets
Pay more money to service its debt
Turn to the IMF for financial assistance
Half of the world’s largest transnational corporations are located in the following three countries:
US, China and Japan
US, UK, Japan
US, UK, China
China, Japan, Germany
Portfolio investment:
Gives operational control of a company to the investors
Injects cash into an enterprise but does not bring operational control
Has been more important in the post 1945 era than in the pre 1945 era
Export Processing Zones:
Are only in the manufacturing sector
Do not exist in North America
Never benefit the local economy
In textiles and electronics sectors mostly employ women
The traditional IR approach to security is primarily concerned with the security of the:
Individual
The ruling class
The state
World community
The Cold War security structure:
Damaged the economic development of African states
Facilitated the economic development of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
Fed the growth of a military industrial complex in the US
All of the above
The conflict between the US government and Huawei:
Has few implications for Western high-tech companies
Does not involve other states
Does not directly involve the Chinese government
Demonstrates a fusion of corporate and state conflict
SARS, HIV and COVID-19:
Are examples of diseases as a threat to economic and political security
Are not relevant to the issue of security and political economy
Are of concern to the WHO, but not to states
All of the above
