Question

19.

(09.07 LC)
Which of the following organizations helps governments restructure their economies and better manage their debt? (4 points)
World Trade Organization
United Nations
World Bank
International Monetary Fund
World Health Organization
20.
(09.03, 09.08 MC)
An automobile plant is established as the key industry in a region. After a few years, businesses emerge in the area that help support the automobile plants, such as car engine manufacturers and car dealerships. Which of the following geographical concepts does this scenario describe? (4 points)
I. Agglomeration
II. Deglomeration
III. Dependency theory
IV. Growth pole theory
I and II
I and IV
I, II, and III
II, III, and IV
I, II, III, and IV

Answer 1

Question 1

The correct answer is: "International Monetary Fund "

The International Monetary Fund is an international organization founded in 1944 to develop a system for global monetary cooperation, to secure financial strability, to ensure hight employment figures and sustainable growth, to foster international trade and to reduce poverty rates in a global scale. It provides funding to countries when their economies need to be restructured or they need to perform debt managament. The IMF operates under the ideas of interventionism of Keynes and Dexter White.

Question 2

The correct answer is: "I and IV".

The proliferation of businesses surrounding the key industry constitutes an agglomeration, which in this case is formed according to the provisions of the growth pole theory. The theory states that economic growth in a certain region is not uniform but that instead, it occurs around a specific pole, constituted by a key industry surrounded many other linked industries.