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This activity contains 15 questions.

	Although poverty exists in Canada, the problem is more widespread and severe in the poor countries of the world.    True  False

	The "Three Worlds" model of global income distribution is more valid than ever today.    True  False

	High-income countries possessed the first economies to be transformed by the Industrial Revolution.    True  False

	Most high-income countries are not densely populated.    True  False

	Low-income countries have primarily industrial economies.    True  False

	One key reason for marked disparities in quality of life throughout the world is that economic productivity is lowest in precisely the regions of the globe where population growth is highest.    True  False

	In low-income countries, one-tenth of the children never reach the age of ten.    True  False

	By global standards, rich societies tend to be overdeveloped.    True  False

	Countries with the least-developed economies have the world's highest birth rates.    True  False

	Globally, women are disproportionately the poorest of the poor.    True  False

	The take-off stage is the first stage of development according to modernization theory.    True  False

	Modernization does not always affect men and women in the same ways.    True  False

	Dependency theory puts primary responsibility for global poverty on poor nations themselves.    True  False

	Before the Industrial Revolution, there was little affluence in the world.    True  False

	Modernization theory asserts that as industrialization gradually transforms poor societies, nations are likely to become more equal and alike.    True  False

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