1 .		An MDC is also known as a relatively developed country.   True  False
2 .		Your text has divided the world into nine major regions and two areas based on dominant languages, religions, and cultural and demographic characteristics.   True  False
3 .		Anglo-America's relative homogeneity reduces the possibility that a large minority will be excluded from participating in the region's economy on the basis of cultural characteristics.   True  False
4 .		Anglo-America produces more manufactured goods than services.   True  False
5 .		The gross domestic product (GDP) is the value of the total output of goods and services produced in a country, normally during one year.   True  False
6 .		Dividing the GDP by total population measures the contribution the average individual makes to generate a country's wealth in a year.   True  False
7 .		Per capita GDP measures distribution of wealth.   True  False
8 .		The primary sector of an economy involves the mining of the earth's resources, including food production (agriculture and fishing) and forestry.   True  False
9 .		The secondary sector includes the transformation of raw materials into useful products.   True  False
10 .		The tertiary sector involves services in exchange for payment.   True  False
11 .		A high percentage of agricultural workers in a country indicate that most of its people are spending their days producing food for export.   True  False
12 .		Productivity is the value of a particular product compared to the amount of raw materials needed to produce it. [Hint]  True  False
13 .		The value added in manufacturing is the gross value of the product minus the costs of raw materials and energy.   True  False
14 .		As a result of greater exposure to cultural diversity, people in developed countries display different social characteristics from people in LDCs.   True  False
15 .		Using this map, India has the same student-teacher ratio as does Sri Lanka. [Hint]  True  False
16 .		This map indicates that Ecuador has the same percent of labor force engaged in agricultural activities as does Turkey.   True  False
17 .		Literacy rate is the percentage of a country's people who can read only.   True  False
18 .		Under self-sufficiency, incomes in the countryside keep pace with those in the city, and reducing poverty takes precedence over encouraging a few people to become wealthy consumers.   True  False
19 .		Two problems with the self-sufficiency alternative are inefficiency and lack of choice. [Hint]  True  False
20 .		According to Rostow, a traditional society defines a country that has started a process of development.   True  False
21 .		Under Rostow's international trade model, the process of development begins when the country starts to invest in new technology and infrastructure.   True  False
22 .		Most LDCs converted from self-sufficiency to the international trade model during the 1990s.   True  False
23 .		Financing for LDCs primarily comes from two sources: loans from banks and international organizations, and direct investment from governments.   True  False
24 .		Loans outstanding to LDCs (and provided by MDCs) was about $2.1 trillion in 1996, an increase of about $1 trillion in a decade.   True  False
25 .		The World Bank has judged half of the projects it has funded in Africa to be failures.   True  False
26 .		Transnational corporations (often referred to as multinational corporations), once popular only with the United States, are now found in other MDCs.   True  False