Chapter 5 Quiz

1. What is the most typically used measure of a country's level of development?

2. Social outcomes commonly used to measure a country's level of human development include:

3. What does the Gini coefficient measure?

4. Which of the following would typically be considered "human capital"

5. Approaches to development that emphasize the environment often want to focus attention on which of the following?

6. What do proponents of neoliberalism think about development?

7. The author most known for arguing that economic development and social change arise from the interactions of social classes was:

8. How would social scientists characterize China's approach to securing economic growth over the last several decades?

9. Who is a well-known proponent of the concept that civil society, social capital, and trust are necessary to build a functional socio-economic polity?

10. Which of the following world regions includes many cases often cited by proponents of state-led development?

11. Which of the following regions includes many cases that development scholars consider having been problematic over the last several decades?

12. Which well-known scholar developed World Systems Theory, which divides countries into core, semi-periphery, and periphery?

13. Jared Diamond's argument about the causes of development focuses on structural factors beyond a country's control, most notably:

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