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

Related Mcqs:

1. 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 ?

   A. rejection of traditional custom
   B. expectation of improved economic opportunities
   C. guarantee of better housing
   D. fear of civil war

2. Which of the following colonial policy contribute further to today’s agricultural underdevelopment in Africa ?

   I. Colonial governments compelled farmers to grow selected crops
   II. Colonialism often changed traditional land tenure systems from individual control to communal
   III. Colonialists failed to train African agricultural scientists and managers
   IV. Research and development concentrated on food production and small farmers and herders.

   A. I and II only
   B. I and III only
   C. III and IV only
   D. II and III only

3. Baran’s Neo-Marxist thesis has been criticized for ignoring the probability that power is frequently ?

   A. based on an alliance between landowners and peasants
   B. based on an alliance between peasants and the foreign bourgeoisie
   C. transferred from one elite to another when revolution occurs
   D. derived from domestic opponents of nationalism

4. 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

5. 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

6. ____ 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

7. A major dependency theorist Andre Gunder Frank Suggests that the following economic activities have contributed to underdevelopment:

   I- Workers migrating from villages to foreign-dominated urban complexes
   II- Forming an unskilled labor force to work in factories and mines and on plantations
   III- Replacing indigenous enterprises with technologically more advanced global subsidiary companies
   IV- Closing the economy to trade with and investment from, developed countries

   A. I and II only
   B. II and III only
   C. I, II and III only
   D. I , II III and IV

8. Which tropical fruit is Latin named musa ?

   A. coconut
   B. Passion fruit
   C. cassava
   D. banana

9. Brassica is the Latin name for what spice ?

   A. Mustard
   B. Pepper
   C. Sald
   D. Basil

10. Brassical in the Latin name for what spice ?

    A. mustard
    B. pepper
    C. Salt
    D. basil