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
