1. Tim Scharks Green River College
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Chapter 10 Development
Tim Scharks Green River College

2. The Human Development Index (HDI) includes measures of
access to knowledge.
a decent standard of living.
a long and healthy life.
all of the above
only a decent standard of living and long and healthy life.
Answer: D
Key Issue 1. Why Does Development Vary Among Countries?
Learning Outcome : Understand the Human Development Index.

3. Gross national income (GNI) per capita is adjusted for purchasing power parity
so that countries with different costs of living may be more directly compared.
because otherwise large countries would have a higher GNI.
to compensate for income inequality.
because the role of different sectors of the economy varies between countries.
so that people can purchase more with their income.
Answer: A
Key Issue 1. Why Does Development Vary Among Countries?
Learning Outcome : Identify the HDI standard of living factor.

4. Which of the following education measures is the most forward-looking?
mean years of schooling
expected years of schooling
pupil/teacher ratio
high school graduation rate
literacy rate
Answer: B
Key Issue 1. Why Does Development Vary Among Countries?
Learning Outcome : Identify the HDI education factor.

5. The Human Development Index (HDI) considers health by including
cellular telephones per 1,000 persons.
the cost of medical care.
the unemployment rate.
the number of hospitals per 100,000 persons.
life expectancy at birth.
Answer: E
Key Issue 1. Why Does Development Vary Among Countries?
Learning Outcome : Identify the HDI health factors.

6. Examining inequality within a country reveals that
the inequality-adjusted HDI is usually close to the HDI.
wealth is concentrated.
developing countries have greater levels of inequality than developed countries.
developed countries have greater levels of inequality than developing countries.
inequality is lessening in developed countries.
Answer: C
Key Issue 2. Where Are Inequalities in Development Found?
Learning Outcome : Describe the UN’s measures of inequality.

7. The index that measures development for women using the same dimensions as the HDI is the
Gender Inequality Index.
Gender-related Development Index.
female labor force participation rate.
Gender Empowerment Measure.
Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index.
Answer: B
Key Issue 2. Where Are Inequalities in Development Found?
Learning Outcome : Describe the UN’s measures of gender inequality.

8. Women’s empowerment is measured in the Gender Inequality Index (GII) through the
adolescent fertility rate.
maternal mortality rate.
Gender Empowerment Measure.
percentage of women in the national legislature.
female labor force participation rate.
Answer: D
Key Issue 2. Where Are Inequalities in Development Found?
Learning Outcome : Describe empowerment-related components of gender inequality.

9. The maternal mortality rate is an important measure of gender inequality because
it varies widely by world region and is specific to women.
both male and female infants are counted in the rate.
countries with high maternal mortality have low total fertility.
countries with high maternal mortality have low adolescent fertility.
it is unrelated to control of reproduction.
Answer: A
Key Issue 2. Where Are Inequalities in Development Found?
Learning Outcome : Describe reproductive health elements of the GII.

10. The general relationship between HDI and GII is
that higher HDIs are associated with higher GIIs.
dependent on the number of women in a country.
positive.
that higher HDIs are associated with lower GIIs.
there is no clear relationship.
Answer: D
Key Issue 2. Where Are Inequalities in Development Found?
Learning Outcome : Compare HDI and GII for selected countries.

11. Rostow’s model of development depends on
subsidies to inefficient industries.
international trade.
investment spread evenly across all sectors of the economy.
restrictions on imports.
self-sufficiency.
Answer: B
Key Issue 3. Why Do Countries Face Challenges to Development?
Learning Outcome : Summarize the two paths to development.

12. Trade disagreements between member countries of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
are often left unresolved.
are encouraged because the WTO works to limit total international trade.
are usually resolved with military threats.
are heard and ruled on by the WTO.
involve the elected politicians of the disagreeing parties.
Answer: D
Key Issue 3. Why Do Countries Face Challenges to Development?
Learning Outcome : Analyze reasons for the triumph of the international trade approach to development.

13. Foreign direct investment may not be the most effective path to development because
most investment flows to already developed countries.
it is concentrated in the least developed countries.
relatively little goes to East Asia.
it results in high levels of debt.
not all projects succeed.
Answer: A
Key Issue 3. Why Do Countries Face Challenges to Development?
Learning Outcome : Identify the main sources of financing development.

14. International lenders may require a country seeking help with debt to
engage in microfinance.
adopt a self-sufficiency model of development.
have their debt forgiven and borrow more.
adopt a structural adjustment program including austerity measures.
increase the size of government.
Answer: D
Key Issue 3. Why Do Countries Face Challenges to Development?
Learning Outcome : Explain alternate strategies for coping with economic downturns.

15. The movement attempting to create better working conditions and sustainable development through trade is called
free trade.
fair trade.
microfinance.
self-sufficiency.
cooperatives.
Answer: B
Key Issue 4. Why Are Countries Making Progress in Development?
Learning Outcome : Explain principles of fair trade.

16. Which statement most accurately reflects observed progress in development since 1980?
Developing countries are catching up to developed countries, which have not progressed.
Overall, the world is less developed today than in 1980.
Developing countries have become less developed.
Developed countries have developed faster than the developing countries.
Developed and developing countries have both increased development, but large gaps remain.
Answer: E
Key Issue 4. Why Are Countries Making Progress in Development?
Learning Outcome : Describe ways in which differences in development have narrowed or increased.