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The document is a final examination for a course on The Contemporary World at Cataingan Polytechnic Institute, consisting of multiple-choice questions and identification items related to globalization, economic integration, and global governance. It covers various concepts such as interconnectedness, trade systems, cultural integration, and the roles of international organizations. Additionally, it includes questions about the Global North and Global South, as well as factors affecting global demographics and examples of globalization.

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Contemporary Prelim

The document is a final examination for a course on The Contemporary World at Cataingan Polytechnic Institute, consisting of multiple-choice questions and identification items related to globalization, economic integration, and global governance. It covers various concepts such as interconnectedness, trade systems, cultural integration, and the roles of international organizations. Additionally, it includes questions about the Global North and Global South, as well as factors affecting global demographics and examples of globalization.

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Commission on Higher Education

CATAINGAN POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE INC.


Crossing St.,Poblacion,Cataingan,Masbate

The Contemporary World


FINAL EXAMINATION
Name: _______________________ Date: __________________
Grade & Course: ___________________________ Score: ______________________

Direction: Read and answer each item thoroughly.

__________________1.It is the increased interconnectedness and interedependence of people and


countries, through opening of international borders.
__________________2.Describes designing a product in a way that it may readily consumed across
multiple countries.
__________________3.a process whereby societies come under or adopt western culture in areas such
as industry,technology,politics,and economics,lifestyle,law,norms,mores,customs,and traditions.
__________________4.It is the development of trade systems within transnational actors such as
multinational corporations or NGOs'.
__________________5.Refers to the interpenetration of cultures which , as a consequence, the nations
adopt principles , beliefs, and customs of other nations, losing their unique culture.
__________________6.The integration of different cultures of different societies become possible.
__________________7.The phenomenon by which millions of people are interconnected because of the
power of the digital world via platforms such as Facebook,Instagram and the likes.
__________________8.It is now possible to travel the world without barely any restrictions or less
restrictions.
__________________9.Refers to the circumstances and ideas of the present age, where it deals with
problems and issues related to environment,population,wealth,power,tensions and conflicts.
__________________10.According to World Health Organization , Globalization is?
__________________11.It refers to the interconnected worldwide economic activities that take place
between multiple countries.

__________________12.It is where international trade (the importation and exportation) left to it's
natural course without tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers.

__________________13.A group of countries within which tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers between
the members are generally abolished but with no common trade policy toward non-members.

__________________14.commercial and financial penalties applied by one or more countries against a


targeted country, group, or individual

__________________15.a government-instituted prevention of exports to a certain country.


__________________16.taxes or duties to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports

__________________17.Free trade between the three member nations, Canada, the US and Mexico

__________________18.is a single market, which is similar to a free trade area in that it has no tariffs,
quotas or taxes on trade

__________________19.the theory or practice of shielding a country's domestic industries from foreign


competition by taxing imports to protect their domestic industries

__________________20.an ideology that favors state interventionism in the economy, with policies that
emphasize domestic control of the economy, labor, and capital formation, even if this requires the
imposition of tariffs and other restrictions on the movement of labor, goods and capital

__________________21.multinational financial institution established at the end of World War II (1944)


to help provide long-term capital for the reconstruction and development of member countries.

__________________22..was set up in 1945 along with the IMF to aid in rebuilding the world economy
and it was owned by the governments of 151 countries and its capital is subscribed by those
governments

__________________23 .is a cooperative institution that 182 countries have voluntarily joined because
they see the advantage of consulting with one another on this forum to maintain a stable system of
buying and selling their currencies

__________________24.It is the whole system of human interactions.

__________________25. is the intensification of the influence and dominance of capital.

__________________26.the power or national governments to make decisions independently of those


made by other governments.

__________________27..is the process of industrial, political, legal, economic, social and cultural
integration of states wholly or partially in Europe.

__________________28.is an international organization comprising 28 European countries and


governing common economic, social, and security policies.

__________________29.can be described as a process and a means by which group of countries strives


to increase their level of welfare.

__________________30.This theory focuses on the supranational institutions of the EU of which the


main driving forces of integration are interest group activity at the European and national levels, political
party activity, and the role of governments and supranational institutions.
__________________31.This a dominant political theory developed by Andrew Moravsik in1993 to
explain European integration. Application of rational institutionalism to the field of European
integrationis the aim of this theory.

__________________32.refers to governance on a global scale. While the concept seems simple in


theory, it can take many forms in practice.

__________________33 .is a formal body that is solely responsible for governance of specific
institutions within a jurisdiction

__________________34 .typically refers to rules, institutions, and officials that have the power to shape
the behavior of actors in a system.

__________________35.is the closest thing we have to a global government. Today, it contains the
closest approximations that the world has to a constitution (the Universal Declaration of Human Rights);
a set of deliberative lawmaking bodies (the General Assembly and Councils); a police system among
nations (the Security Council); and an executive branch (the UN bureaucracies).

__________________36..a corporation is a legal entity that is separate and distinct from its owners.

__________________37.the religion of Roman Empire during the 4th Century AD. It sought monopoly of
spiritual power against both paganism and other religious faiths in those territories that came under its
influence.

__________________38.refers to the study of the size, structure, and distribution of the world's
population.

__________________39.represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were
to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with age-specific fertility
rates of the specified year.

__________________40.also referred to as the mortality rate or fatality rate, is defined as the number
of people per thousand who die in a particular area during a particular period of time, usually a year.

II. Identify whether it a Global North or Global South.

1 Which region generally has a higher GDP per capita?

2. Which region is more likely to have stable democratic governments?

3. In which region do you typically find higher literacy rates and better healthcare access?

4. Which region has a higher per capita carbon footprint?

5. Which region has more representation in international organizations?

6. Which region is typically characterized by higher industrialization?


7.Where are poverty rates generally higher?

8.Which region has greater access to advanced technology and the internet?

9. In which region are life expectancy and health outcomes generally better?

10. Which region tends to have more influence in global governance and decision-making?

11. Which region is often more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change?

12. Which region is more likely to face trade barriers and unfair practices?

13.Where is access to higher education typically more equitable?

14. Which region is more likely to depend on foreign aid for development?

15. Which region tends to export more cultural products (media, art, etc.) globally?

Test II. ENUMERATION


1-8 What are the different examples of globalization.
9-15 Factors that influence and affect how global economy works.

16-21 The main organ of United Nations

22-24 Non-tariff trade barriers

25-28 Four Concepts of Sovereignty

29-35 Seven Stages of Economic Integration

36-39 According to Held and McGrew, a globalization has several distinguish characteristics.Enumerate.
40-42. Factors affecting global demograhy
43-45 Examples of Global City in the Philippines

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