What measure counts the number of deaths of infants under age 1 per 1,000 live births per year?
Infant mortality rate
According to in-class lecture, which of the following is NOT true? What IS true? *question 2
NOT: The U.S. has exceeded their agreement to give 0.7% of their GDP to Foreign Assistance. If the U.S. would stop giving, they could balance their budget
IS: The target to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015 was actually achieved in 2010, In 2000, 189 countries came together to reflect on our common destiny, The number of people worldwide in the working middle class (defined at $4/day) has tripled.
The average number of children a woman in a given country will have in her lifetime if age-specific fertility rates hold throughout her childbearing years is known as:
Total fertility rate
According to in-class lecture, how many cases of malaria were there in 2015?
214,000
The goal to improve child health and reduce the mortality rate of children under 5 by 2/3 is:
MDG 4
Which of the following is not a way education has been shown to improve the lives of communities and families?
Greater religiosity
According to in-class lecture, which of the following is NOT true? What IS True? *question 7
NOT: The Millennium Development Goals have been a massive failure
IS: The number of people living in extreme poverty has decreased dramatically in the last 25 years, Globally about 1 in 4 children suffer from stunted growth due to under/malnourishment, The number of children not receiving a primary education has decreased from about 106 million to about 57 million
The world’s richest ____ people own as much wealth as the bottom half of the planet’s population.
85
A transglobal class of professionals who exercise considerable economic and political power that is not limited by national borders is known as:
Global elite
Which of the following is not one of the categories of countries as outlined by world systems theory?
Central countries
The systematic disparities in income, wealth, health, education, access to technology, opportunity, and power between countries, communities, and households around the world are known as:
Global inequality
With a population over 1 billion, about ____ of people in India live on less than $2 a day.
50%
The idea that poverty of some countries is a consequence of their exploitation by wealthy, capitalist states is known as:
Dependency theory
According to in-class lecture, what two regions of the world account for 87% of maternal mortality?
Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia
According to world systems theory, what countries are economically advanced, technologically sophisticated, and well educated?
Core
____ in developing countries, many of whom survive from season to season on their own small-scale crop yields, are vulnerable to weather events and natural disasters that can push their families into destitution and starvation.
Subsistence farmers
Which of the following is NOT considered a low income country? What IS?
NOT: Spain
IS: Malawi, Uganda, Haiti
According to in-class lecture, as a percentage of GDP what is the target set by the MDGs for net foreign aid?
0.7%
Which of the following is NOT one of the 8 MDGs mentioned in class? What IS?
NOT: Income equality
IS: Education, Maternal Health, Poverty and hunger, Gender Equality
According to in-class lecture, extreme poverty is defined as living under (the equivalent of) _________ per day.
$1.25
