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Poverty, and Inequality MCQ

The ussr's economic policies _______ income inequality and _______ living standards.

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Correct Answer: Reduced, lowered

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The theory that the global capitalist economic system has long been shaped by a few powerful economic actors favoring their class interest is known as World systems theory.

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Correct Answer: True

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The average number of children a woman in a given country will have in her lifetime if age-specific fertility rates hold throughout her childbearing years (ages 15–49) is called _____.

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Correct Answer: Total fertility rate

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A market-oriented development theory that envisions development as evolutionary and guided by modern institutions, practices, and cultures is called _____ theory.

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Correct Answer: Modernization

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The number of deaths of infants under age 1 per 1,000 live births per year is called Infant mortality rate.

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Correct Answer: True

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A comparative economic measure using international dollars to indicate the amount of goods and services someone could buy in the United States with a given amount of money is known as GNI-PPP.

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Correct Answer: True

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The systematic disparities in income, wealth, health, education, access to technology, opportunity, and power among countries, communities, and households around the world is called Global _____.

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Correct Answer: Inequality

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A transglobal class of professionals who exercise considerable economic and political power that is not limited by national borders is known as Global ____.

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Correct Answer: Elite

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The theory that the poverty of some countries is a consequence of their exploitation by wealthy states, which control the global capitalist system is called ____ theory.

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Correct Answer: Dependency

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