Awareness Quiz

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 1
• What is the approximate population of the world
  today?

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 1
• What is the approximate population of the world
  today?
• Answer About 6.5 billion

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 2
• What is the approximate population of China
  today?

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 2
• What is the approximate population of China
  today?
• Answer About 1.3 billion

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 3
• What is the approximate population of the United
  States today?

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 3
• What is the approximate population of the United
  States today?
• Answer About 295 million

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 4
• What five nations in the world have the highest
  population?

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 4
• What five nations in the world have the highest
  population?
• Answer China 1.3 b
• India 1.1 b
• U.S. 295.7 m
• Indonesia 242.0 m
• Brazil 186.1 m
• (EU 457.0 m)
• http//www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ranko
  rder/2119rank.html

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 5
• What is the approximate GDP per capita in the
  United States?

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 5
• What is the approximate GDP per capita in the
  United States?
• Answer About 40,100

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 6
• What is the approximate GNP per capita in Somalia?

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 6
• What is the approximate GNP per capita in
  Somalia?
• Answer About 600

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Bonus!

• What country has a higher GDP per capita than the
  US?

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Bonus!

• What country has a higher GDP per capita than the
  US?
• Luxembourg 58,900
• http//www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ranko
  rder/2004rank.html

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 7
• What nation-state covers the largest land area?

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 7
• What country covers the largest land area?
• Answer- Russia 6.6 m. sq. miles
• Canada 3.9
• China 3.7
• U.S. 3.7

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 8
• In the 20th Century, what three heads of states
  killed the largest number of their own people?

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 8
• In the 20th Century, what three heads of states
  have killed the largest number of their own
  people?
• Answer - Mao 30 million
• Stalin 20 million
• Hitler 15 million

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 9
• What percent of its GNP would you guess Denmark
  spends annually on foreign aid?

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 9
• What percent of its GNP would you guess Denmark
  spends annually on foreign aid?
• Answer 1.0 percent

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 10
• Approximately what percent of its GNP do you
  think the U.S. ought to spend annually on foreign
  aid?

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 10
• Approximately what percent of its GNP do you
  think the U.S. ought to spend annually on foreign
  aid?
• Answer - ?

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 11
• Approximately what percent of its GNP does the
  U.S. spend annually on foreign aid?

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 11
• Approximately what percent of its GNP does the
  U.S. spend annually on foreign aid?
• Answer 0.1 percent

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 12
• How much foreign aid would you guess the U.S.
  gave to Israel, per day, in fiscal year 2002?

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 12
• How much foreign aid would you guess the U.S.
  gave to Israel, per day, in fiscal year 2002?
• Answer About 8 m per day
• (7,945,205 per day, NYT, 11 Dec. 2002, p. A8)

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 13
• Guess the population density (people per square
  mile) of Macau. (Hint U.S. is 74 Oregon is
  30 Idaho is 12 New Jersey is 1,042 Canada is
  8.1)

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 13
• Guess the population density of Macau. (Hint
  U.S. is 74 Oregon is 30 Idaho is 12 New Jersey
  is 1,042 Canada is 8.1)
• Answer 44,040

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 14
• What percentage of the people of the world have
  daily access to safe drinking water?

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 14
• What percentage of the people of the world have
  daily access to safe drinking water?
• Answer Less than 30 percent

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 15
• How many people around the world die each day
  from diseases contracted from unsafe water?

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 15
• How many people around the world die each day
  from diseases contracted from unsafe water?
• Answer About 25,000

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 16
• How many children around the world die each day
  from diarrheal diseases?

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 16
• How many children around the world die each day
  from diarrheal diseases?
• Answer About 13,000 (5 million each year)

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 17
• How many children around the world die each day
  from hunger-related diseases?

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 17
• How many children around the world die each day
  from hunger-related diseases?
• Answer About 40,000

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 18
• What percent of their annual income do families
  in developing countries spend on food? (Hint
  Your family spends about 20 of its income on
  food.)

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 18
• What percent of their annual income do families
  in developing countries spend on food? (Hint
  Your family spends about 20 of its income on
  food.)
• Answer Between 75 80

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 19
• Approximately 100 of adults in developed
  countries are literate. What percent are
  literate in developing countries.

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 19
• Approximately 100 of adults in developed
  countries are literate. What percent are
  literate in developing countries.
• Answer About 30 (But only 13 of females are
  literate!)

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 20
• How many of the following American companies
  are owned or controlled by parent companies
  outside of the U.S.?
• Dr. Pepper Firestone 7-Eleven Reebok
  Chrysler Washington Times Yale Locks Saks
  Fifth Avenue Encyclopedia Americana Alka
  Seltzer Dunlop Tires Mack Trucks Twentieth
  Century Fox Universal Pictures U.S. Air Timex
  National Bank of North America Baskin and
  Robbins Standard Oil of Ohio Amoco Shell
  Burger King Snapple Brooks Brothers adidas
  Universal Studios Tasters Choice Coffee

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 20
• How many of the following American companies
  are owned or controlled by parent companies
  outside of the U.S.?
• Dr. Pepper, Firestone 7-Eleven Reebok
  Chrysler Washington Times Yale Locks Saks
  Fifth Avenue Encyclopedia Americana Alka
  Seltzer Dunlop Tires Mack Trucks Twentieth
  Century Fox Universal Pictures U.S. Air Timex
  National Bank of North America Baskin and
  Robbins Standard Oil of Ohio Amoco Shell
  Burger King Snapple Brooks Brothers adidas
  Universal Studios Tasters Choice Coffee.
• Answer - All

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 21
• How much does war cost?

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 21
• How much does war cost?
• Answer The Iraqi war is costing about 177
  million per day.

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Awareness Quiz

• Question 22
• How big is Africa?
• US
• Argentina
• New Zealand
• China
• India
• Europe

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China 3,705,387 sq. milU.S. 3,615,102Europe
(not Russia) 1,908,500India 1,269,338Argentina
1,068,296New Zealand 103,736
11,670,359 sq. mi.Africa
11,706,166 sq. mi.
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Globalization

• Awareness, understanding, and response to global
  developments and linkages.

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International Business

• Transactions that are devised and carried out
  across national borders to satisfy the objectives
  of individuals, companies, and organizations.

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First Law of International Business

• One persons export is anothers import.

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Multidiscipline

• Economics
• Politics
• Geography
• History
• Language
• Anthropology
• Jurisprudence
• Statistics

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Peter Woike

• Globalization can help would-be industrialists
  change the labels of their countries from
  developing to developed.

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Cons?

• Strengthens corporations and investors at the
  expense of the poor?

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IMF

• In last century
• Richest 25 of countries GDP increased by 6xs.
• Poorest 25 of countries GDP increased by 3xs.

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Cons?

• Strengthens corporations and investors at the
  expense of the poor?
• Ignores human rights?
• Fails to relieve country debt?
• Causes terrorism?
• Competition can cause business failure and
  unemployment?

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Causes of Globalization

• Technology
• Communications
• Travel
• Business competition
• Natural human interest and curiosity

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Expansion of Global Business

• Over past 30 years, value of international
  business has increased from 200 billion to 7.6
  trillion (38xs)!

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Recent Shifts

• US investment abroad2.6 trillion (1999)
  Overseas investment in US 2.8 trillion (1999)
• US trade with Asia 709 billion With Europe
  450 billion
• US imports far exceed exports