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waring_questions.docxFirst and Last Name: ___________________________________ DUE: Friday, October 16, 2015
A National Film Board of Canada Release: Who’s Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies, and Global Economics
WRITE THE CAPITAL LETTER ON THE LINE NEXT TO THE NUMBER.
1_____ National Income Accounting does not have a debit side.
A. True
B. False
2_____ As long as the activity passes through the market it is good for growth.
A. True
B. False
3_____ GDP is utterly unrelated to the well-being of the community.
A. True
B. False
4_____ Economics does not have any relationship to the lives of people.
A. True
B. False
5_____ The International Labour Organization specifies that under _______________ year olds do not work.
A. 18
B. 16
C. 14
D. 10
6_____ Under the current economic system, women are seen to be at _______________ because much of the work they do is unpaid.
A. Leisure
B. Work
C. Neither of the Above
D. Both of the Above
7_____ Who adds to the growth of the GDP “unoccupied” Cathy the mother or “economically active” Ben the soldier?
A. Cathy
B. Ben
8_____ The UN System of National Accounts governs all our lives.
A. True
B. False
9_____ The UN System of National Accounts came from a pamphlet by John Maynard Keynes and Richard Stone entitled “British National Income and How to Pay for the _______________.”
A. Economy
B. War
C. Neither of the Above
D. Both of the Above
10_____ If there is not money exchange involved in the activity it does not get measured into the economic system.
A. True
B. False
11_____ International trade in _______________ is the biggest growth trade industry.
A. Food
B. Water
C. Sunscreen
D. Arms
12_____ The _______________ permanent members of the UN Security Council are also the _______________ leading arms exporters in the world.
A. 2, 2
B. 4, 10
C. 5, 5
D. 20, 30
13_____ Every minute _______________ children die from want of food and inexpensive vaccines.
A. 10
B. 20
C. 30
D. 40
14_____ Every minute $ 1.3 million of public treasuries around the world goes to military expenditures.
A. True
B. False
15_____ There are _______________ soldiers for every 100,000 and only _______________ doctors.
A. 556, 85
B. 11, 20
C. 1000, 1
D. 92, 8000
16_____ The average amount spent on each soldier in a country is $22,000 while only $380 is spent to educate each child.
A. True
B. False
17_____ The amount of money spent on armaments in just two weeks could provide safe drinking _______________ for the entire planet.
A. Food
B. Water
C. Sunscreen
D. Arms
18_____ Female sexual slavery is a major growth industry world wide.
A. True
B. False
19_____ Sexually exploited children are counted as productive and contribute to growth even if it is _______________.
A. Horrible
B. Dishonest
C. Illegal
D. Corrupt
20_____ Over 1 billion people in the world are malnourished.
A. True
B. False
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