Since World War II, people in both Africa and Latin America have moved from rural to urban areas, The major cause of this movement has been the ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What is Baran’s explanation for underdevelopment in Asia, Africa, and Latin America ?

   A. monopolistic business from abroad
   B. reactionary ruling coalitions
   C. weak domestic middle class
   D. All of the above

2. As consequence of rural urban migration ?

   A. More and more urbanization is taking place N successfully
   B. Ruralization of Urban areas is taking place
   C. Ruralization of Urban areas and ripid growth seem to be the result
   D. None of the above

3. Which one of the following is the best criterion of contrast between a rural and urban community ?

   A. Geographic location
   B. Specific size of population
   C. Specific density of population
   D. Diversification of occupations

4. Mention the name for that urban and rural region which is closely associated economically with an adjoining town or city. Term is also used to describe the area that is serviced by a port or coastal settlement ?

   A. Hinterland
   B. Country land
   C. Dependent land
   D. Parasite land

5. The simplest explanation based on Lewis’s model for rural-urban migration is ?

   A. That people migrate when urban wages exceed rural wages
   B. a higher expected income in urban areas
   C. better infrastructure in urban areas
   D. the availability of labor-intensive jobs in urban areas

6. Which of the following is not TRUE about rural urban migration ?

   A. Migration to the cities is a larger contributor than natural population growth to urban labor growth is sub Saharan Africa
   B. In Latin America natural population increase is the major source of urban growth
   C. From 1975 to 2000 the number of cities in LDC with populations over 1 million increased from 20 to 50
   D. The urban share of total LDC population grew from 27 percent in 1975 and 35 percent in 1992 to 40 percent in 2003

7. Structural economists from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) emphasized ?

   A. contractionary monetary and fiscal policies
   B. currency devaluation
   C. long-run institutional and structural economic change
   D. short term-adjustment with a human face

8. Most of Latin America has been characterized by ______ large land-grand estates owned by the few and ________ small poor holdings that rarely provide adequate employment for a family ?

   A. multitudinous latitudinous
   B. latifundios, minifundios
   C. feudum, nocere
   D. grameen, repetto

9. ____ was a strategy for industrial development popular in Latin America in the 1950s 1 1960s for promoting domestic production by erecting high protective tariffs on imports of manufactured goods ?

   1. export led growth
   2. import substitution
   3. dynamic hedging
   4. countervailing duties

10. Suppose that a war is fought will biological weapons. The weapons destroy people but not capital. What is likely to happen to equilibrium wages and rental rates after the war when compared to their values before the war ?

    A. Wages rise, and rental rates fall
    B. Wages rise, and rental rates rise
    C. Wages fall, and rental rates rise
    D. Wages fall, and rental rates fall