Professional Documents
Culture Documents
International Economics 6Th Edition James Gerber 0132948915 9780132948913 Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
International Economics 6Th Edition James Gerber 0132948915 9780132948913 Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
1) Institutions are
A) the same thing as organizations.
B) associations of individuals or groups.
C) always embodied in a written set of rules.
D) a set of rules governing behavior, whether written or not.
E) only relevant on international issues.
Answer: D
Topic: Introduction: International Institutions and Issues Since World War II
3) Many of the important international governmental institutions that deal with the
global economy have their roots in the Bretton Woods conference at the end of World
War II. Answer: TRUE
Topic: Introduction: International Institutions and Issues Since World War II
2.2 The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
1) The international organization that serves as a forum for trade discussions and the
development of trade rules is called
A) the WTO.
B) the World Bank.
C) the IMF.
D) Bretton Woods.
E) the United Nations.
Answer: A
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
1
Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc.
2) Which of the following was NOT a creation of the Bretton Woods
conference? A) World Bank
B) IMF
C) IBRD
D) WTO
E) None of the
above. Answer: D
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
3) One of the strongest motivations for holding the Bretton Woods Conference was to
design new international institutions that would
A) contain communism.
B) help countries avoid the mistakes of the 1920s and 1930s.
C) provide a collective defense security for Western Europe and North
America. D) ensure that world prices were not rising too rapidly.
E) create a single currency in Western Europe.
Answer: B
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
4) One of the most important and most visible roles of the IMF is to
A) hold regular negotiations over tariff reductions.
B) investigate countries that are charged with being unfair traders.
C) provide loans to countries that need capital to develop their economies.
D) intercede by invitation when countries cannot pay their international debts.
E) serve as a forum for negotiating free trade agreements between groups of nations.
Answer: D
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
2
Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc.
7) From the late 1940s until the creation of the WTO, the organization that was primarily
responsible for conducting rounds of trade negotiations was the
A) World Bank.
B) IMF.
C) ITO.
D) United Nations.
E) GATT.
Answer: E
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
8) Until the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations, which of the following sectors were NOT
included in the rules for international trade?
A) Steel and agriculture
B) Automobiles and electronics
C) Agriculture and apparel
D) Steel and textiles
E) Automobiles and agriculture
Answer: C
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
9) Most favored nation (MFN) status means that a country treats another country
A) better than its other trading partners.
B) the same as its other trading partners.
C) worse than its other trading partners.
D) any way it chooses since it is the "most favored nation."
E) None of the above.
Answer: B
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
10) When the United States gives MFN status to China, it means
that A) China is treated better than other U.S. trading partners.
B) China is treated the same as other U.S. trading partners.
C) China is treated worse than other U.S. trading partners.
D) China is better than all the nations in the WTO.
E) China is legally bound to
reciprocate. Answer: B
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
3
Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc.
11) The Tokyo Round of the GATT negotiations was notable because it was the first
round A) that included Japan.
B) that included textiles and apparel.
C) to begin establishing rules on subsidies.
D) to begin discussions of exchange rates.
E) to limit the tariffs of the United States.
Answer: C
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
14) Having MFN status means that the country is getting the most favorable trade terms
possible with a trading partner.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
15) A country experiencing a debt or currency crisis would contact the World Bank.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
16) The World Bank was created as a result of the Bretton Woods conference and was originally
focused on the reconstruction of Europe after World War II.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
4
Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc.
17) The IMF, because it can force nations to take loans and bail out packages, has more
power than other international governmental organizations dealing with the global economy.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
18) The World Bank formed the World Trade Organization when it became clear that to alleviate
poverty in developing nations, agricultural trade barriers were going to have to be reduced.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
20) MFN status means that a trading partner is getting the best trade deal possible given
current national trade policies.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
21) WTO talks in the late 1990s led to openings in both financial services and
telecommunications.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
22) Describe the primary functions of the World Bank, the IMF, and the WTO. When was
each of these organizations formed?
Answer: The IMF and the World Bank were outlined at the Bretton Woods Conference and
began operations at the end of World War II. Both function as banks for national governments,
with the IMF playing the role of lender of last resort and the World Bank focusing its loans on
economic development. A nation facing a payments crisis can contact the IMF for a loan, but
it may have to change its domestic policies as part of the price of the loan package. The World
Bank initially focused its lending on rebuilding war-torn areas, but then broadened its focus to
development. Only developing countries can borrow from the World Bank.
The World Trade Organization was not formed until 1994. An international organization to
establish rules related to world trade, business practices, and international investment was
proposed at the end of World War II, but was not created. A series of trade negotiations that
focused primarily on lowering tariffs were launched. A number of rounds of GATT were
completed and ultimately the round known as the Uruguay Round led to the formation of
the WTO. The WTO focuses on the multilateral resolution of trade disputes and on
continued negotiations to further reduce barriers to trade. Topic: The IMF, the World Bank,
and the WTO
5
Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc.
23) What is MFN status? How does the WTO reconcile the principle of equal treatment with the
preferential treatment created by regional trade agreements?
Answer: MFN status is basically that you will treat all nations participating in the agreement the
same. A regional trade agreement creates preferential treatment for nations that are participants.
(For example, because of NAFTA, Mexico and Canada get more preferential terms with the
United States than other WTO members would.) The WTO recognizes that regional agreements
destroy some opportunities for trade (by making nonmembers face higher barriers than
members), but believes they create more trade between participants than they destroy. The
regional agreements also allow nations to try out new arrangements that may later be adopted
more broadly.
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
24) Trade policies in which industries have been the most contentious in the Doha
Round? Answer: Agriculture and services
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
26) What result of the Uruguay Round was the most significant for global trade?
Answer: The creation of the WTO
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
28) The IBRD part of the World Bank is set up to lend to whom and for what types of
projects? Answer: Developing nations' governments for specific development projects or
major government economic policy adjustments
Topic: The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
6
Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc.
2.3 Regional Trade Agreements
5) Which of the following is a problem that arises when trying to classify regional trade
agreements?
A) Many agreements combine elements from different categories.
B) The definition of free trade area includes that of a customs union.
C) Some agreements include cultural issues while others do not.
D) The most favored nation clause includes all of
them. E) None of the above.
Answer: A
Topic: Regional Trade Agreements
7
Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc.
6) With a partial trade agreement
A) goods and services are allowed to cross boundaries without tariffs.
B) two or more countries agree to liberalize trade in a selected group of categories.
C) two or more countries set common tariffs toward non-members.
D) two or more countries allow the free mobility of inputs such as labor and capital.
E) two or more countries agree on establishing a common currency.
Answer: B
Topic: Regional Trade Agreements
7) Describe the potential benefits and the potential costs to global trade of the
tremendous growth in regional trade agreements.
Answer: A regional trade agreement creates preferential treatment for nations that are
participants, which violates the idea of MFN status in multilateral agreements, where nations
agree to treat all participants the same. The WTO recognizes that regional agreements destroy
some opportunities for trade by making non-members face higher barriers than members of the
regional agreement. But it believes that they create more trade than they divert, and the regional
agreements allow nations to try out arrangements that may later be adopted more broadly.
Topic: Regional Trade Agreements
1) One reason markets may fail to provide the optimal quantity of public goods is the problem of
A) determining what the public wants.
B) nontariff barriers.
C) nondiscrimination.
D) free riders.
E) economic integration.
Answer: D
Topic: The Role of International Economic Institutions
8
Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc.
3) An important function of international institutions during times of crisis is
to A) make goods nonrival.
B) make goods nonexcludable.
C) prevent free riding.
D) prevent nondiscrimination.
E) encourage free riding.
Answer: C
Topic: The Role of International Economic Institutions
1) Which of the following is NOT a criticism of international institutions such as the IMF, the
World Bank, or the WTO?
A) They lack openness in their decision-making process.
B) They violate national sovereignty by imposing unwanted domestic policies. C)
They fail to understand the effects of their policies on the vulnerable.
D) Their decision making is biased in favor of underdeveloped nations and against the
interests of nations already industrialized.
E) They ignore potentially large adjustment costs for developing nations of implementing
their policies.
Answer: D
Topic: Criticism of International Institutions
9
Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc.
3) Which of the following is FALSE?
A) National sovereignty limits outsiders' ability to change the trade laws and practices
of individual nation states.
B) Because of international recognition of national sovereignty, individual nations are unaffected
by global trade and capital flows.
C) Foreign investors may not have a legal right to impose policies on a nation state, but
the nation state may still experience consequences of poor policies.
D) Because trade policies are laws of individual nations, it is difficult for other nations and
international organizations to force changes on unwilling nation states.
Answer: B
Topic: Criticism of International Institutions
4) Which of the following is FALSE about the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
A) The IMF was created after the Bretton Woods Conference to help to maintain the
international fixed exchange rate system that was introduced.
B) The IMF lends to national governments, initially to maintain the fixed exchange rate system,
and today to deal with debt or currency crises.
C) Multinational corporations can get IMF loans if they agree to invest in economies that are
internationally perceived as risky and otherwise unlikely to receive direct foreign investment.
D) One of the criticisms of the IMF and other international governmental organizations that
deal with the global economy is that their decision making may be biased toward policies that
favor industrialized nations.
Answer: C
Topic: Criticism of International Institutions
10
Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc.
7) Describe the criticisms about decision making at the IMF and the World Bank. Which types
of policies are thought to reflect bias? What types of costs are not considered? What is the
fundamental question critics raise about the operations of the international governmental
economic institutions?
Answer: Voting structures at the IMF and World Bank give developed nations, and the U.S.
especially, control over decision making, making it hard to delineate whose interests are being
served. For example, policies favoring free capital flows and privatization of publicly owned
industries are thought to reflect the biases of industrialized countries rather than overwhelming
economic consensus. Implementation and adjustment costs may be much greater in developing
countries because they have higher overall levels of unemployment, less diversification in their
economies, and fewer resources to develop new infrastructure or to do other spending necessary
to take advantage of new opportunities. Fundamentally, critics ask whether they are fostering
development and economic security or generating greater economic inequality and compounding
risks to vulnerable groups.
Topic: Criticism of International Institutions
11
Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc.
Another random document with
no related content on Scribd:
damned nigger!" The boxer hauled back and hit him in the mouth
and he dropped to the pavement.
We hurried away to the restaurant. We sat around, the poor woman
among us, endeavoring to woo the spirit of celebration. But we were
all wet. The boxer said: "I guess they don't want no colored in this
damned white man's country." He dropped his head down on the
table and sobbed like a child. And I thought that that was his
knockout.
I thought, too, of Bernard Shaw's asking why I did not choose
pugilism instead of poetry for a profession. He no doubt imagined
that it would be easier for a black man to win success at boxing than
at writing in a white world. But looking at life through an African
telescope I could not see such a great difference in the choice. For,
according to British sporting rules, no Negro boxer can compete for a
championship in the land of cricket, and only Negroes who are
British subjects are given a chance to fight. These regulations have
nothing to do with the science of boxing or the Negro's fitness to
participate. They are made merely to discourage boxers who are
black and of African descent.
Perhaps the black poet has more potential scope than the pugilist.
The literary censors of London have not yet decreed that no book by
a Negro should be published in Britain—not yet!
VII
A Job in London
YET London was not wholly Hell, for it was possible for me to
compose poetry some of the time. No place can be altogether a
God-forsaken Sahara or swamp in which a man is able to discipline
and compose his emotions into self-expression. In London I wrote
"Flame-heart."
So much I have forgotten in ten years,
So much in ten brief years! I have forgot
What time the purple apples come to juice,
And what month brings the shy forget-me-not.
I have forgot the special, startling season
Of the pimento's flowering and fruiting;
What time of year the ground doves brown the fields
And fill the noonday with their curious fluting.
I have forgotten much, but still remember
The poinsettia's red, blood-red in warm December.
My mother is Zebeeda,
I disavow not her name and I am Antar,
But I am not vainglorious ...
Her dark complexion sparkles like a sabre in the shades of night
And her shape is like the well-formed spear....
To me these verses of Antar written more than twelve centuries ago
are more modern and full of meaning for a Negro than is Homer.
Perhaps if black and mulatto children knew more of the story and the
poetry of Antar, we might have better Negro poets. But in our Negro
schools and colleges we learn a lot of Homer and nothing of Antar.
PART THREE
NEW YORK HORIZON
IX
Back in Harlem
LIKE fixed massed sentinels guarding the approaches to the great
metropolis, again the pyramids of New York in their Egyptian majesty
dazzled my sight like a miracle of might and took my breath like the
banging music of Wagner assaulting one's spirit and rushing it
skyward with the pride and power of an eagle.
The feeling of the dirty steerage passage across the Atlantic was
swept away in the immense wonder of clean, vertical heaven-
challenging lines, a glory to the grandeur of space.
Oh, I wished that it were possible to know New York in that way only
—as a masterpiece wrought for the illumination of the sight, a
splendor lifting aloft and shedding its radiance like a searchlight,
making one big and great with feeling. Oh, that I should never draw
nearer to descend into its precipitous gorges, where visions are
broken and shattered and one becomes one of a million, average,
ordinary, insignificant.
At last the ship was moored and I came down to the pavement. Ellis
Island: doctors peered in my eyes, officials scrutinized my passport,
and the gates were thrown open.
The elevated swung me up to Harlem. At first I felt a little fear and
trembling, like a stray hound scenting out new territory. But soon I
was stirred by familiar voices and the shapes of houses and saloons,
and I was inflated with confidence. A wave of thrills flooded the
arteries of my being, and I felt as if I had undergone initiation as a
member of my tribe. And I was happy. Yes, it was a rare sensation
again to be just one black among many. It was good to be lost in the
shadows of Harlem again. It was an adventure to loiter down Fifth
and Lenox avenues and promenade along Seventh Avenue.
Spareribs and corn pone, fried chicken and corn fritters and sweet
potatoes were like honey to my palate.
There was a room for me in the old house on One Hundred Thirty-
first Street, but there was no trace of Manda. I could locate none of
my close railroad friends. But I found Sanina. Sanina was an
attractive quadroon from Jamaica who could pass as white. Before
prohibition she presided over a buffet flat. Now she animated a cosy
speakeasy. Her rendezvous on upper Seventh Avenue, with its pink
curtains and spreads, created an artificial rose-garden effect. It was
always humming like a beehive with brown butterflies and flames of
all ages from the West Indies and from the South.
Sanina infatuated them all. She possessed the cunning and
fascination of a serpent, and more charm than beauty. Her clients
idolized her with a loyalty and respect that were rare. I was never
quite sure what was the secret of her success. For although she was
charming, she was ruthless in her affairs. I felt a congeniality and
sweet nostalgia in her company, for we had grown up together from
kindergarten. Underneath all of her shrewd New York getting-byness
there was discernible the green bloom of West Indian naïveté. Yet
her poise was a marvel and kept her there floating like an
imperishable block of butter on the crest of the dark heaving wave of
Harlem. Sanina always stirred me to remember her dominating
octoroon grandmother (who was also my godmother) who beat her
hard white father in a duel they fought over the disposal of her body.
But that is a West Indian tale.... I think that some of Sanina's success
came from her selectiveness. Although there were many lovers
mixing up their loving around her, she kept herself exclusively for the
lover of her choice.
I passed ten days of purely voluptuous relaxation. My fifty dollars
were spent and Sanina was feeding me. I was uncomfortable. I
began feeling intellectual again. I wrote to my friend, Max Eastman,
that I had returned to New York. My letter arrived at precisely the
right moment. The continuation of The Liberator had become a
problem. Max Eastman had recently resigned the editorship in order
to devote more time to creative writing. Crystal Eastman also was
retiring from the management to rest and write a book on feminism.
Floyd Dell had just published his successful novel, Moon Calf, and
was occupied with the writing of another book.
Max Eastman invited me to Croton over the week-end to discuss the
situation. He proposed to resume the editorship again if I could
manage the sub-editing that Floyd Dell did formerly. I responded with
my hand and my head and my heart. Thus I became associate editor
of The Liberator. My experience with the Dreadnought in London
was of great service to me now.
The times were auspicious for the magazine. About the time that I
was installed it received a windfall of $11,000 from the government,
which was I believe a refund on mailing privileges that had been
denied the magazine during the war.
Soon after taking on my job I called on Frank Harris, I took along an
autographed copy of Spring in New Hampshire, the book of verses
that I had published in London. The first thing Frank Harris asked
was if I had seen Bernard Shaw. I told him all about my visit and
Shaw's cathedral sermon. Harris said that perhaps Shaw was getting
religion at last and might die a good Catholic. Harris was not as well-
poised as when I first met him. Pearson's Magazine was not making
money, and he was in debt and threatened with suspension of
publication. He said he desired to return to Europe where he could
find leisure to write, that he was sick and tired of the editor business.
He did not congratulate me on my new job. The incident between
him and The Liberator was still a rancor in his mind. He wasn't a
man who forgot hurts easily.
But he was pleased that I had put over the publication of a book of
poems in London. "It's a hard, mean city for any kind of genius," he
said, "and that's an achievement for you." He looked through the little
brown-covered book. Then he ran his finger down the table of
contents closely scrutinizing. I noticed his aggressive brow become
heavier and scowling. Suddenly he roared: "Where is the poem?"
"Which one?" I asked with a bland countenance, as if I didn't know
which he meant.
"You know which," he growled. "That fighting poem, 'If We Must Die.'
Why isn't it printed here?"
I was ashamed. My face was scorched with fire. I stammered: "I was
advised to keep it out."
"You are a bloody traitor to your race, sir!" Frank Harris shouted. "A
damned traitor to your own integrity. That's what the English and
civilization have done to your people. Emasculated them. Deprived
them of their guts. Better you were a head-hunting, blood-drinking
cannibal of the jungle than a civilized coward. You were bolder in
America. The English make obscene sycophants of their subject
peoples. I am Irish and I know. But we Irish have guts the English
cannot rip out of us. I'm ashamed of you, sir. It's a good thing you got
out of England. It is no place for a genius to live."
Frank Harris's words cut like a whip into my hide, and I was glad to
get out of his uncomfortable presence. Yet I felt relieved after his
castigation. The excision of the poem had been like a nerve cut out
of me, leaving a wound which would not heal. And it hurt more every
time I saw the damned book of verse. I resolved to plug hard for the
publication of an American edition, which would include the omitted
poem. "A traitor," Frank Harris had said, "a traitor to my race." But I
felt worse for being a traitor to myself. For if a man is not faithful to
his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
I soon became acquainted and friendly with The Liberator
collaborators and sympathizers: Art Young, Boardman Robinson,
Stuart Davis, John Barber, Adolph Dehn, Hugo Gellert, Ivan Opfer,
Maurice Becker, Maurice Sterne, Arturo Giovanitti, Roger Baldwin,
Louis Untermeyer, Mary Heaton Vorse, Lydia Gibson, Cornelia
Barnes, Genevieve Taggard. William Gropper and Michael Gold
became contributing editors at the same time that I joined The
Liberator staff.