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- Over the course of the last century, the extent of global economic inequality has ________
- According to Immanuel Wallerstein's theory of global capitalism, which nations are at the "core" of the world economy?
- The social theorist identified with modernization theory is ________
- While modernization theory focuses on ___, dependency theory focuses on ___.
- Wallerstein pointed to several factors that cause dependency among low-income nations. Which of the following is a factor that Wallerstein did NOT claim to be a cause of dependency?
- Which theoretical approach claims that rich nations of the world are "overdeveloped" while poor nations are "underdeveloped"?
- If you were to apply modernization theory to the problem of global poverty, you might point that low-income nations ________
- Which type of slavery refers to one person owning another?
- Which type of slavery consists of employers holding workers by paying them too little to cover their debts?
- Japan, Canada, and the nations of Western Europe are all classified as ________
- From a global perspective, economic productivity is lowest in precisely the regions where________
- What concept refers to a global economy in which multinational corporations exploit people in low-income nations?
- According to Walt Rostow, nations begin at the _____ stage of development and may eventually reach the stage of _____.
- In poor countries, the disadvantages women face relative to men are ________
- According to Anti-Slavery International, about how many men, women, and children live today in conditions that amount to slavery?
- If you wanted to visit the world's low-income nations, where would you travel?
- In the world's lowest-income nations, two in ten children born die by the age of _______
- About how many people in the world die each year due to starvation?
- The people of the high-income countries, who represent 23 percent of the world's population, enjoy about how much of the world's income?
- For the world as a whole, about how many people suffer from chronic hunger that leaves them less able to work and places them at high risk of disease?