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WorksheetsChapter 2 Test
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 27mins
In the Philippines, a person is officially living in poverty if he makes _______ pesos a day.
275
350
300
250
In this kind of economy, the government loosens its restriction to foreign trade.
(a)
The American Sociologist who described high-income nations as the core of the world economy and low-income countries as the periphery.
Immanuel Wallerstein
Joseph Stiglitz
Richard Peet
Leslie Sklair
It is a system under which nearly all countries fixed the value of their currencies in terms of a specified amount of gold.
(a)
This system has been practiced for centuries and long before money was introduced. People started exchanging services and goods for other services and goods in return.
(a)
Under globalization, the following shaped and influenced the global economy EXCEPT
government
global corporations
global institutions
environmental laws
The exchange of value of gold then depends on the two sides engaged in trade or transaction.
true
false
The system made after World War II and became the precursor to the current global economic setup.
Bretton Woods system
global economic system
capitalism
international monetary system
In 1944, 44 capitalist countries led by the US met at Bretton Woods, a town in ___________________.
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Cambridge
Its primary purpose is to ensure the stability of the system of exchange rates and international payments that enables countries to transact with each other.
International Monetary Fund
World Bank
World Trade Organization
Asia Development Bank
The following are critiques against IMF and World Bank EXCEPT
perpetrators of debt trap
further intensifying the exploitation of natural, manpower, and financial resources
obliges debtor countries to implement structural adjustments
they have discontents because we have no world government, only global governance
In Wallerstein's model of the capitalist world economy, (a) take part in labor-intensive production that requires low-level skills.
Greece, Spain, and Portugal are the best examples of core regions/countries.
True
False
The economies of semi-peripheral regions/countries seemingly grow at the expense of core regions/countries in Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory.
True
False
After the creation of the UN Security Council, the US dollar became the global currency.
true
false
They are seemingly made permanently dependent on the core regions/countries as they fail to or are hindered from using their natural resources for industrialization.
peripheral regions/countries
core regions/countries
semi-peripheral regions/countries
Companies have come and gone but they are still mostly operating in these highly profitable fields.
(a)
Modern-day global corporations can trace their lineage to the era of colonialism when colonizers exploited colonies as cheap sources of raw materials, slave labor, or as markets for surplus goods.
true
false
It emphasizes its two goals: to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in a sustainable way.
World Bank
International Monetary Fund
World Trade Organization
United Nations
A (a) happens when one country retaliates against another by raising import tariffs or placing other restrictions on the other country's imports.
Even workers in the biggest capitalist country in the world are now negatively affected by globalization's policies
true
false
This Philippine law removed governments' limits on rice importation and let traders bring unlimited volumes of rice anytime with 35% tariffs from ASEAN Member Country, 40% NON-ASEAN within MAV and 180% NON-ASEAN beyond MAV.
(a)
Which of the following is NOT included in the benefits of RA 11203 or the Rice Tarification Law?
rice price hike because of an increased supply
good flow of economy because of collected tariffs from imports
collected tariffs will be allocated in Agriculture
it will improve farmer's profit
It happens when a country is buying more goods and services than it is selling.
trade war
trade deficit
free trade
trade crisis
As of now, how many is the total number of member countries in the United Nations?
193
144
150
215
It has the power to impose economic sanctions on any UN member nation that violates UN rules and decisions.
UN Security Council
UN General Assembly
UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UN Conference on Trade and Development
__________ and ____________ are necessary for making global governance through the UN bodies possible.
Consensus-building and cooperation
Friendly cooperation and trade agreements
Free trade and sanctions
Rules and regulations
Under the Bretton Woods system, participants in a transaction directly exchange goods or services for other goods or services.
true
false
According to Wallerstein's world-systems analysis, to what group does China belong?
core
periphery
semi-periphery
The United Nations is an international organization founded in (a) .
Global market integration can be achieved without the growth of global corporations.
true
false
The establishment of the United Nations organization further stimulated international trade as the member countries agreed to fix their currencies to the U.S. dollar.
true
false
US dominance in the capitalist remained undisputed until China outperformed them in terms of Gross Domestic Product.
true
false
A place where member governments try to sort out the trade problems they face with each other.
World Trade Organization
World Bank
United Nations
UN Security Council
He acknowledges that globalization has its discontents (has global governance without global government).
Joseph Stiglitz
Leslie Sklair
Alejandro Lichauco
Richard Peet
He sees the two financial institutions (IMF and World Bank) as the perpetrators of the debt trap.
Alejandro Lichauco
Richard Peet
Thomas Friedman
Joseph Stiglitz
He criticizes the IMF and World Bank as the two lending firms oblige debtor countries to implement structural adjustments that only cause impoverishment for them.
Richard Peet
Alejandro Lichauco
Leslie Sklair
Joseph Stiglitz
The current global economy would have been impossible to establish without the financial power of international institutions.
true
false
World bank group is composed of eleven entities.
true
false
Globalization requires some sort of global, or atleast, international governance.
true
false
