Quiz 6

There was a new wave of European colonial expansion from:

1850-1900

The political upheaval known as the 'Arab Spring' took place when?

2011-12

According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2008 update, when will the world's population reach 9 billion?

2050

Approximately how many people among the world's 7.3 billion total population currently live on less than $2.50 per day?

3bill

Asia accounts for roughly what percentage of the world's current population?

60%

According to the World Bank, the richest 5 percent of the world's population accounts for what percentage of global income?

75%

The event in which rulers in Egypt and Tunisia were overthrown is referred to as

Arab Spring

The extremist political group active in northern Nigeria is:

Boko Haram

Which of the following is not considered a 'failed state'?

Botswana

Which of the following sub-Saharan countries is not identified by the United Nations as being among the 'world's least developed' countries?

Botswana

What is the most basic -- but often most challenging -- aspect of nation-building?

Forming a common or group identity

The only Latin American country listed by the United Nations as among the 'world's least developed' countries is:

Haiti

Which of these countries is considered the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, as well as one of the poorest in the world?

Haiti

Which country is adding 14 million new workers every year, about 25 percent of the world's new workers?

India

What has been an ongoing barrier to India's potential economic development?

NOT Its refusal to privatize key industries

Which state was called Òthe most corrupt government in the worldÓ in the mid_1990s?

Nigeria

The short-hand term used to describe tensions between industrialized countries and former colonies is:

North-South conflict

All of these least developed countries have been plagued by continued conflict EXCEPT

Philippines.

The U.S. military intervention in Somalia was initiated by:

President George H.W. Bush

The dominate leader in Zimbabwe since it gained independence in 1980 has been:

Robert Mugabe

Which of the following is NOT one of the four fundamental political challenges facing developing countries?

Secularization

The president of which West African country has been convicted of 'crimes against humanity' at the Hague?

Sierra Leone

Which failed state gave the appearance of being a functioning democracy shortly before its collapse?

Sierra Leone

In 1992, President George H.W. Bush sent troops to protect supplies and workers in

Somalia

Where are most of the least developed countries located?

Sub-Saharan Africa

What does the Ògreen revolutionÓ refer to?

The dramatic rise in food production produced by modern farming techniques

What happened after rebels in Somalia ousted long_time dictator Siad Barr?

Years of fighting and famine began that caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Which of the following is not among India's achievements since gaining independence in 1947?

achieving cultural and economic equality

Most existing countries became independent:

after WW2

Least developed countries have all of the following problems in common EXCEPT

anarchy

Status in traditional societies is often:

ascriptive

Which of the following is not a cultural correlate of democracy?

broad access to the internet

The Afghanistan case demonstrates that:

dysfunctional states can become a threat to regional stability

What is the Òroot causeÓ of the worst problems facing developing nations?

endemic poverty

During the conflict in Bosnia, Muslims were forcibly cleared from towns and villages, in a process referred to as:

ethnic cleansing

The conflict in Sri Lanka is rooted in:

ethnic differences

Traditional societies often face which impediments to development?

fatalism

Which of the following is not a factor that explains why many countries remain poor a half a century after independence?

lack of common language

The first and most basic challenge facing countries after gaining independence from colonial rule is:

nation-building

The theory that former colonies remain dependent on former colonial powers due to unequal economic arrangements is know as:

neo-colonialism

Which of the following would be considered an economic democratic correlate?

ntl. wealth

In Western countries, health and sustainability are under pressure from:

overdevelopment

Civil disobedience involves:

passive confrontation and protest

One obstacle facing many developing countries is monoculture, which is the

practice of raising only one major crop.

The most dysfunctional states around the world are:

referred to as failed states

'First World' countries referred to those that were:

rich and with established democracies

The creation of political institutions after gaining independence from colonial rule is known as:

state-building

Which of the following is not a political correlate of democracy?

strong, middle class

The value of the products a country has to sell internationally relative to the value of the value of the products it needs to buy internationally, is referred to as:

terms of trade

Under the Taliban in Afghanistan,

women were barred from working outside the home