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This activity contains 12 questions.

	The world's richest individual (Bill Gates) has more wealth than the world's forty-six poorest countries.    True  False

	Some absolute poverty exists in Canada.    True  False

	Seventy percent of the world's population living near absolute poverty are women.    True  False

	In chattel slavery, indebted workers are held until their debt is paid off.    True  False

	Sixteen percent of the world's population lives in high-income countries.    True  False

	One criticism of modernization theory is that it blames poor countries for their own poverty.    True  False

	Since 1970, the degree of economic inequality worldwide has declined.    True  False

	Dependency theory puts primary responsibility for global poverty on high-income nations.    True  False

	The "three worlds" model of classifying nations is based more on politics than on economic development.    True  False

	Half the world's people are farmers.    True  False

	Modernization theory identifies tradition as the greatest barrier to economic development.    True  False

	According to Wallerstein, the world economy benefits all nations equally.    True  False

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