See, Post-strike class schedule: MCQ test & essay test on 18 February 2009
Study Questions for Multiple Choice Test on 18 February 2009, in lecture hall
The test will have 40 questions. Time is 1 ½ hours
No Books or papers allowed in the test
This is not an open book Test
No dictionaries are allowed
If you do not write the test on Feb.18 and if you are eligible for a make-up, you will have
new questions (not from this study list) and no study questions will be provided.
Please study for all questions:
(N.B.: If you rely on others to prepare answers for you, you are bound to get your answers wrong
from those whose answers may be wrong. Pl do not take that risk as you cannot gamble away
your grade/ learning)
1. As stated in “How to Help Poor Countries”, a characteristic shared by the success stories of
international assistance is that they:
2. The authors of “How to Help Poor Countries” suggest that the single-most important drag on
African development has been:
3. As discussed in “How to Help Poor Countries”, the greatest example of the success of
foreign aid was:
4. As noted in “The Utopian Nightmare”, world leaders should focus their aid efforts on:
5. According to “The Utopian Nightmare”, comprehensive programs almost always fail to
accomplish much good because:
6. As discussed in “Development as Poison: Rethinking the Western Model of Modernity”,
Dennis Robertson argued early in the twentieth century that what the economist economizes
on is:
7. As related in “Development as Poison: Rethinking the Western Model of Modernity”, Carol
Gilligan argued in A Different Voice that the prevailing standards of personal development
were:
8. According to class lecture 3 (Sept 29) World System Theory explains all of the following,
except:
9. According to class Lecture 5-6 (Oct 20) all of the following are true about GDP of EMEs
(Emerging Market Economies), except:
10. According to class Lecture 4 (Oct 6) and DW # , India’s economic advancement is due to all
of the following, except:
11. According to class lecture 6 ()ct 27), G12 membership consists of:
12. According to class Lecture 6 (Oct 27), Emerging Market Economies include all of the
following, except?
13. According to class Lecture 6 (Oct 27), in 2007, International Development Agency has:
14. According to class lecture 6 (Oct 27), Singapore issues are all of the following except:
15. According to class lecture 6 (Oct 27), Advanced Industrial Countries (AICs) commercial
interests are embodied in the rules of:
16. After watching the video Turbulances, which of the following do you find to be true?
17. Which of the following would be your conclusion on globalization after watching the video “Stepping
from the shadows”
18. According to Ron Burke, “Factory and the Market Place (video), 1985”. what was the conditions
created by Buccaneer capitalists are all o the following except::
19. As identified in “The India Model,” India’s most backward and feudal state is:
20. As discussed in “The India Model,” India’s overly strict labor laws discourage employers
from:
21. The author of “The India Model” predicts an eventual change in the current perception of
China as “the world’s workshop” and India as “the world’s:
22. As revealed in “Industrial Revolution 2.0,” for the U.S. market, the Chinese company Haier
makes most of its refrigerators in:
23. The two countries cited in “Industrial Revolution 2.0” for their incredibly efficient mining
operations are:
24. According to “Social Justice and Global Trade”, trade liberalization brings enormous
benefits:
25. The author of “Social Justice and Global Trade” contends that, in regard to pharmaceutical
products, the Bush Administration:
26. In comparing cotton farming in the United States and Burkina Faso, the author of “Cotton the
Huge Moral Issue” notes that:
27. As revealed in “Ranking the Rich,” in Mozambique, about 40 percent of children with
serious illnesses are:
28. As determined in “Ranking the Rich,” Spain made the most spectacular gains in its index
score, due mostly to reforms that facilitate:
29. As explained in “Foreign Aid II,” the encouraging recent policy shifts reluctantly made by
African governments include all of the following, except the:
30. As pointed out in “Foreign Aid II,” Africa’s most populous nation is:
31. According to ‘Making Aid Work ‘and the notes on lecture 5 & 6 (Oct 20), Sundberg and
Gelb argue all of the following except:
32. As noted in “Food Sovereignty: Ending World Hunger in Our Time”, in order to reduce
food-aid needs over the long term, national policies should:
33. According to “Food Sovereignty: Ending World Hunger in Our Time”, the study on Food
Aid or Food Sovereignty, showed that:
34. As pointed out in “Crisis of Credibility”, the low state to which the fortunes of the IMF had
sunk was best illustrated by:
35. . In discussing Japan’s proposal for an Asian Monetary Fund, the authors of “Crisis of
Credibility” observe that:
36. According to “Without Consent: Global Capital Mobility and Democracy”, the common
agenda of the Party of Davos is to:
37. World Bank estimates of the Doha round agenda indicate significant gains to the GDP of
developing countries, but, as pointed out in “Without Consent: Global Capital Mobility and
Democracy”, these estimates ignore the costs arising from all of the following except:
38. As noted in “The 2005 Freedom House Survey”, of the following, the country that saw its
ranking decline was:
39. As explained in “The 2005 Freedom House Survey”, the ranking of Guyana declined due to:
40. As discussed in “Africa: How We Killed Our Dreams of Freedom,” Zimbabwe’s ruling
Zanu-PF Party is so named because in the 1980s the Zanus coerced a merger with the:
41. As brought out in “Africa: How We Killed Our Dreams of Freedom,” many of Africa’s
liberation movement leaders, including Mugabe, blame the ongoing conditions of
mismanagement and corruption on:
42. As mentioned in “The Year of the Ballot,” Venezuela’s President Chavez has developed the
means to bring social services to the poor through initiatives known as:
43. As indicated in “The Year of the Ballot,” the left-wing parties in the 2006 Latin American
elections did better than ever before in:
44. As maintained in “The Lost Continent,” the two long-standing trends that unite most of Latin
America are mediocre economic performance and the decay of traditional:
45. As asserted in “The Lost Continent,” Latin America, spurned by a disinterested Washington,
has responded with an emergence of political groups and leaders hostile to the United States,
a condition that Latin America shares with:
46. The author of “Why We Owe So Much to Victims of Disaster” contends with regard to the
global environment that:
47. As noted in “Reversal of Fortune”, the area with the highest percentage of people moving out
of poverty was in the communities studied in:
48. In discussing the situation in Gujarat, India, the author of “Reversal of Fortune” observes
that: