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According to Dennis Mileti, there is NO such thing as a purely natural hazard because he claims that:

Most of the people who live in shanty-towns, slums, or favelas in the world’s less developed big cities work in:

Which of the following helps explain why many less developed countries faced extreme difficulty in repaying loans to the World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) over the past few decades?

Yes, subsistence agriculture is almost always less productive than commercial farming. Yet commercial farms in less developed countries do not provide the benefits we might assume. All of the following are examples of problems associated with commercial farming in less developed countries EXCEPT:

The continuation of colonial relationships even after political independence is referred to as ______:

Which of the following is a critical insight of world systems theory regarding development in different parts of the world? According to class discussion, Emmanuel Wallerstein:

Which of the following best describes edge cities? Edge cities are:

Which is NOT among the five stages of Walt Rostow’s development model?

In our discussion of the critical elements of development, we highlighted the role of several elements, including social conditions. Which of the following is NOT part of the list of social conditions we discussed?

Walt Rostow created his five stages of economic development model because he wanted to help countries achieve higher levels of development. Why was he so concerned about helping other countries develop? Rostow: