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The Contemporary World

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This is aims at a more moral and equitable global economic system whereby price is not set by the market rather it is transparently negotiated by both producers and consumers
  • Fair Trade Correct
This is an approach to global economic resistance which is defined as a deliberate attempt to intervene in foreign trade by putting up barriers to trade
  • Trade Protectionism Correct
This is one of the identified reasons why
  • Citizenship Correct
This is one of the identified way to reduce economic marginalization of people and nations
  • Reducing Trade Barrier Correct
This is one of the importance of demography that is concerned with creating a plan of action in providing job security for people.
  • Employment Planning Correct
This is one of the importance of demography that is concerned with providing the growing number of population which has a direct impact on the increase for the need for shelter
  • Housing Planning Correct
This is one of the importance of demography that is concerned with the youth and providing them this basic right for schooling
  • Educational Planning Correct
This is one of the importance of demography that is studying the mobilization trends of people .
  • Migration Planning Correct
This is one of the importance of social demography that is concerned with the welfare specifically of the mother and child, specially the problem faced of mothers during pregnancy which is malnutrition
  • Health Planning Correct
This is one of the importances of demography that is concerned with providing basic needs of people as more and more are experiencing inadequacies in this basic need.
  • Planning for Food Supply Correct
This is one of the progressive values/forces that are considered as products of globalization that is about creating an environment of harmonious relationship of the citizens and the government of a nation
  • Peace Correct
This is one of the progressive values/forces that are considered as products of globalization that is about the freedom and rights of a nation's citizens
  • Democracy Correct
This is one of the progressive values/forces that are considered as products of globalization that is about the independence of nations
  • Autonomy Correct
This is the total number of children that would be born to each woman if she were to live to the end of her child-bearing year
  • Total Fertility Rate Correct
This means delivering sufficient food to the entire world population
  • Global Security Correct
This pertains to legal relationship between a state and a person.
  • Citizenship Correct
This provide a basis for other statistical projections, helping governments in their decision making and it is measured in terms of annual growth rate and in thousands of people
  • Population Projection Correct
This refers to all nationals present in, or temporarily absent from a country, and aliens permanently settled in a country
  • Population Correct
This refers to all nationals present in, or temporarily absent from a country, and aliens permanently settled in a country. This indicator shows the number of people that usually live in an area:
  • Population Correct
This refers to finding the fastest possible way of producing large amounts of a certain product or achieving more in less possible time
  • Efficiency Correct
This refers to industrial culture, organized on the model of mass production and is produced for a mass audience according to types (genres), following conventional formulas, codes, and rules.
  • Corporate culture
  • Organizational culture
  • Media culture Correct
  • High culture
This refers to the annual changes in population resulting from births, deaths and net migration during the year
  • Growth Rate Correct
This refers to the group of population who are aged 65 years old and above
  • Elderly population Correct
This sees that increasing aid is one of the many measures that are needed and that needs should be adapted in the international norms and standards.
  • Globalization
  • Fair Trade
  • Trade Protectionism Correct
  • Helping the bottom billion
This the ratio between the elderly population and the working age (15-64 years)
  • Elderly Dependency Rate Correct
This type of financing is provided by Multilateral Development Banks to member countries, with maturities of up to 20 years, based on market interest rates. The financial resources for these loans are obtained by borrowing on the international capital markets and re-lend to borrowing governments in developing countries:
  • Long-term loans Correct
This type of financing is provided by the Multilateral Development Banks to member countries, mostly for technical assistance, advisory services, or project preparation:
  • Grant financing Correct
This type of financing is provided by the Multilateral Development Banks to member countries, with maturities of 30 to 40 years, at interest rates well below market rates. These are funded through direct contributions by governments in the donor countries:
  • Very-long-term loans Correct
Through the Eight Millennium Development Goals, United Nations (UN) has addressed the different problems around the world and ranking first is the eradication of the extreme poverty and hunger, under what circumstances bellow makes this problem different in all parts of the globe.
  • Globalization
  • Economic Crisis
  • Standards of Life Correct
  • Power and Sovereignty
Trade protectionism is in line with the principles of free trade by the neoliberalists
  • The correct answer is 'False'. Correct
What are the two factors identified to be contributors to the increase in population?
  • Improved Survival Rate and High Fertility Rate Correct
What area has the greatest percentage of population aged 60 or over
  • Europe Correct
What attribute of a global city refers to having a storehouse of smart, educated, creative people?
  • Human capital Correct
What is a system of beliefs, rituals, and practices, usually institutionalized in one manner or another, which connects this world with the beyond and provides the bridge that allows humans to approach the divine, the universal life force that both encompasses and transcends the world?
  • Religion Correct
  • Ethnicity
  • Race
  • Culture
What is false about the difference between standard of life and quality of life in terms of Globalization?
  • Standard of life is referring to the material things while quality of life is the non-tangible things a person has achieved in life
  • Globalization has a different effects on an individual in terms of standard of living and quality of life
  • Standard of living is the level of wealth of an individual while quality of life is the degree which a person enjoys his life
  • Standard of living pertains to the geographic area of an individual while Quality of life pertains to the level of the country he is living on Correct
What is the distinct socio-economic and political categorization of countries comprising the three worlds known as First, Second, and Third Worlds?
  • North-East Divide
  • East-West Divide
  • South-West Divide
  • North-South Divide Correct
What is the institutional arrangements designed to facilitate the free flow of goods and services and to coordinate foreign economic policies between countries in the same geographic region?
  • Political regionalism
  • Economic regionalism Correct
  • Functional regionalism
  • Autonomous regionalism
What is the shorthand term used to describe for poor or developing nations?
  • Third World Correct
  • Second World
  • Fourth World
  • First World
What is the term coined by Marshall McLuhan which describes the phenomenon of the world's culture shrinking and expanding at the same time due to pervasive technological advances that allow for instantaneous sharing of culture?
  • Global connection Correct
What is the timeframe over which a product is created, passed on to exhibit, and over the long run removed from the world market?
  • Product improvement
  • Market revolution
  • Degeneration period
  • Item life cycle Correct
What is the top most populous country in the world according to Time
  • China Correct
What takes place when a country dominates others through its media exports, including advertising messages, films, and television and radio programming?
  • Cultural imperialism Correct
  • Cultural hybridization
  • Cultural homogenization
  • Cultural imbalance
What term is alternatively used to refer to Third World countries?
  • Independent country
  • Super power
  • Underdeveloped country
  • Developing country Correct
What term refers to the permanent change of residence by an individual or group excluding such movements as nomadism, migrant labor, commuting, and tourism, all of which are transitory in nature?
  • Safety
  • Career
  • Education
  • Religion Correct
  • Migration Correct
What was coined to refer to ethnically or religiously defined populations living within or across national boundaries, nations without a sovereign state, and indigenous groups that are nomadic, uncontacted or living outside of global society?
  • Fourth World Correct
  • First World
  • Third World
  • Second World
What was the term used to describe several industrial countries and majority of these countries either practiced a socialistic system of government or a communist system of government?
  • Third World
  • Second World Correct
  • Fourth World
  • First World
When businesses want to manufacture their products at a cheaper rate, they employ the services from developing countries which is possible in countries such as China and Cambodia, where manufacturing costs and wages are lower than highly developed countries. This business practice is called ____________.
  • Local employment
  • Outsourcing Correct
  • Networking
  • Freelancing
When did the UN Security Council decided on comprehensive and mandatory sanctions, for the first time in the past 22 years against Iraq's invasion of Kuwait?
  • August 1990 Correct
Which of the following does not belong among the regional organizations in the Western Hemisphere?
  • Gulf Cooperation Council Correct
  • North American Free Trade Agreement
  • Caribbean Community
  • Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas
Which of the following does not belong to the four pillars of urban life?
  • Recreational Correct
  • Commercial
  • Educational
  • Civic
Which of the following examples does not refer to resources and markets as factors affecting economic globalization
  • Saudi Arabia's global oil export
  • Records from the 19th century BCE attest to the existence of an Assyrian merchant colony at Kanesh in Cappadocia
  • The ancient Egyptians trading in the Red sea, importing spices from the "Land of Punt" and from Arabia
  • The founding of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Correct
Which of the following examples does not refer to resources and markets as factors affecting economic globalization
  • The founding of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Correct
Which of the following examples refers to generation issues as factors influencing economic globalization?
  • Establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
  • The silk route or silk road
  • Toyota factories and assembling plants in different parts of the globe Correct
  • USA outsourcing IT professionals in India
Which of the following examples refers to historical factor influencing economic globalization?
  • Europeans traveled around the globe to barter crafts and furs in exchange for silks and perfumes in the Middle Ages Correct
Which of the following examples refers to political factor influencing economic globalization?
  • Wal-Mart benefits greatly from having the vast majority of its goods manufactured in China Correct
Which of the following is a part of the discussions?
  • True Correct
  • False
Which of the following is a part of the Preliminary Pages?
  • Statement of the Problem
  • Research Design
  • Scope and Limitation
  • Abstract Correct
Which of the following is a part of the results?
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Review of Related Literature Correct
Which of the following is NOT a multi dimensional factor of globalization and sustainability
  • Social Correct
Which of the following is NOT a part of the Body of the research paper?
  • Research Design Correct
  • Statement of the Problem
  • Rationale/Background of the Study
  • Significance of the Study
Which of the following is NOT a part of the methods of the research paper?
  • Research Design
  • Population Size
  • Research Methods
  • Rationale/Background of the Study Correct
Which of the following is not considered a reason why people move across international borders:
  • Highly skilled and business migrants
  • Temporary labor migrants
  • Forced migrants
  • Irregular migrants Correct
Which of the following is NOT part of the Preliminary Pages?
  • Summary of Results Correct
  • Research Design
  • Rationale/Background of the Study
  • Statement of the Problem
Which of the following is not true about the attributes of global corporations?
  • High-growth companies view international markets as untapped markets full of potential
  • Companies should research and understand the different cultures they are tapping into in order to be successful in not only building key relationships that will open up doors down the road, but connecting with the right consumers as well
  • Companies that invest in the internet and produce web-based products are more unlikely to grow globally because there is more money involved in their international expansion Correct
  • Companies must be aware of different cultures and business practices among countries in order to connect, be efficient, and stay on the same page
Which of the following is not true about the history of global market integration?
  • The unification of commodities promoted trade and economic development
  • The high costs of and the risks associated with long voyages did not limit trade to a relatively small set of commodities of high value relative to their weight and bulk Correct
  • International trade expanded because of new technologies in transportation and communication
  • Global market integration is almost as old as humanity
Which of the following statements is not true about globalization?
  • Globalization is a recent phenomenon which traces its origin in the Information Age and thrived because of the presence of social media and new technologies. Correct
Which of the following statements is not true?
  • Religion has tremendously benefited from technological advancements
  • Globalization promotes syncretism or the mixing of different religious and cultural beliefs and practices which promotes the growth of popular religion or folk religion that is different from the original parent religion or mainstream orthodoxy
  • Globalization brings a culture of monism, meaning religions "with overlapping but distinctive ethics and interests" interact with one another Correct
  • With the rapid and accelerated movement of people, culture, and information across national borders, religious ideas also rapidly transfer from one place to another
Which of the following statements is true about the effects of globalization?
  • All of the choices. Correct
Who coined the term "global village" which describes the phenomenon of the world's culture shrinking and expanding at the same time due to pervasive technological advances that allow for instantaneous sharing of culture?
  • Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Marshall McLuhan Correct
  • Em Griffin
  • Roland Barthes
Who introduced the "three worlds" model wherein the First World included the United States and its capitalist allies in places such as Western Europe, Japan and Australia; the Second World consisted of the communist Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites; and the Third World encompassed all the other countries that were not actively aligned with either side in the Cold War?
  • Franz Boas
  • Margaret Mead
  • Mary Douglas
  • Alfred Sauvy Correct
Who is the people who return to their countries of origin after a period in another country.
  • Return Migrants Correct
  • Return Filipino
  • Return Citizen
  • Return Resident
Who is thepeople who return to their countries of origin after a period in another country.
  • Return Resident
  • Return Migrants Correct
  • Return Filipino
  • Return Citizen
Who theorized that the 1st World was composed of the "superpowers" - US, Soviet Union, etc; the 2nd World was composed of lesser powers; and the 3rd World was composed of post-colonial emerging markets?
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Mao Zedong Correct
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Winston Churchill
Who theorized that the 1st World was composed of the "superpowers" - US, Soviet Union, etc; the 2nd World was composed of lesser powers; and the 3rd World was composed of post-colonial emerging markets.
  • Nelson Mandela Correct
With around 20,000 stores in 63 countries, Starbucks, the world's most popular coffee house has made its mark from Brazil to China, where many thought it would fail to take off due to the cultural importance of tea drinking. The company has gone to great lengths to make sure that every Starbucks feels like a local coffee house, without losing brand consistency. For example, in China, a regional dislike for coffee was combatted with coffee-free drinks, whilst stores in Asia feature more adaptable seating arrangements to cater for larger groups. This effort is what attribute of a global corporation?
  • Understand different cultures Correct
  • Turbo-charged by the internet
  • Carefully chosen international partners
  • Measure success
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