Which of the following is NOT correct about the informal market of Brazil?
a. It is estimated to be as large as 20 percent of the country's GDP.
b. It is estimated to employ as many as 60 million people, all of whom work without benefits or contracts.
c. It is estimated to cost the country as much as 70 billion annually in lost tax revenues.
d. It has grown since the 1960s.
e. The Brazilian government has made few attempts to decrease the size of its informal economy because of political expediency.
Q. 2Voters often clamor for more efficient government, but when presented the opportunity on the ballot to support regionalization through citycounty consolidations or other similar initiatives, they often defeat the proposal.
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 3What term best describes the death of civilians while trying to kill enemy combatants in a war zone?
a. War crimes
b. Collateral damage
c. Crimes against humanity
d. Crimes against peace
e. Wartime brutality
Q. 4___________ are state-owned or-controlled corporations created to undertake a broad range of activities including the marketing of goods, providing banking services and managing public utilities and transportation.
a. Statist firms
b. Quangos
c. Quasi-independent state firms
d. Public corporations
e. Parastatals
Q. 5Citycounty consolidations, the merger of city and county governments into a single jurisdiction, have been popular during the past thirty years. To date, more than 120 cities and counties have consolidated.
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 6What concerns have critics raised about the just war doctrine?
a. It denounces moral relativism.
b. It contradicts international capitalist theory.
c. It embodies an ethnocentric bias.
d. It prevents long-term peace from developing.
e. It opposes nationalistic ideals.
Q. 7The dependency school of thought holds that
a. businesses become too dependent upon public subsidies.
b. underdeveloped countries become dependent upon foreign aid.
c. the lower class is dependent upon the upper class and therefore votes as instructed.
d. underdeveloped countries find it difficult to achieve growth in a global system dominated by wealthy countries.
e. wealthy countries are dependent upon underdeveloped ones for cheap labor and resources.
Q. 8Estimates now suggest that there are in excess of 200,000 shadow governments in operation across the United States.
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false