Exam 3_2017
Question 1
According to the World Bank’s Ease
of Doing Business 2013, China’s regulatory climate for entrepreneurship was
better than more than half of the economies in the world considered in the
study by the World Bank.
True
False
Question 2
___________ is considered to be
the country with the most entrepreneurial activities in Africa.
Botswana
Mauritius
Ghana
South Africa
Question 3
1.5 / 1.5 pts
Almost everyone agrees that aid is
better than trade and investment in solving Africa’s economic problems and the
low level of entrepreneurship.
True
False
Question 4
Which of the following countries
won the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC)- African Business Awards in 2008?
The Ivory Coast
Nigeria
Cameroon
Ghana
Question 5
Women’s propensity to engage in
entrepreneurial activities in _______________ compares more favorably with many
economies in the Arab world and Asia.
South Africa
Uganda
Kenya
Nigeria
Question 6
Which of the following countries
has the most companies in the list of “top” 90 companies in the
African continent?
Botswana
South Africa
Mauritius
Ghana
Question 7
Which of the following countries
had the annual lending rate for short and medium-term financing needs of
businesses over 100% in 2008?
Madagascar
Sao Tomé e Príncipe
Zimbabwe
Gambia
Question 8
1.5 / 1.5 pts
In terms of size distribution,
Brazilian software sector’s structural composition in terms of size is more
similar to that of India than that of Russia.
True
False
Question 9
The lower rate of entrepreneurship
in Africa is totally because of their unfavorable geographic position.
True
False
Question 10
Among the following, which is the
most open economy for FDI?
Brazil
India
China
Russia
Question 11
1.5 / 1.5 pts
The capitalization of stock
markets as a proportion of GDP is the same in Africa and Brazil.
True
False
Question 12
According to the World Bank’s Ease
of Doing Business 2013 report, Burundi ranked among the world’s top 50
countries in the entrepreneurial climate.
True
False
Question 13
Research indicates that foreign
investments in Africa often benefit a large segment of the population.
True
False
Question 14
Remittance transfer costs are
higher in Africa than in Asia.
True
False
Question 15
1.5 / 1.5 pts
Most of the development aid
programs in Africa are also focusing on the promotion of private businesses.
True
False
Question 16
1.5 / 1.5 pts
Most African nations provide
substantial subsidies for their fishermen.
True
False
Question 17
It is impossible to do business
successfully in Africa.
True
False
Question 18
1.5 / 1.5 pts
In the average, African economies
have a lower saving rates than those in Asia.
True
False
Question 19
1.5 / 1.5 pts
In the World Bank’s “Ease of
Doing Business” report published in 2009, all of the 25 countries at the
bottom were in Africa.
True
False
Question 20
In Malawi, what percentage of the
population has formal jobs in the private sector?
4%
2%
0.4%
0.1%
Question 21
1.5 / 1.5 pts
In 2009, all African countries
made progresses in political rights and civil liberties.
True
False
Question 22
In 2008, Africa’s capitalization
of stock markets as a proportion of GDP was _______________ .
more than that of Brazil.
less than that of Brazil.
twice that of Brazil.
about equal to that of Brazil.
Question 23
1.5 / 1.5 pts
EcoBank’s all branches and
services offices are in Africa.
True
False
Question 24
1.5 / 1.5 pts
East Asia and Africa have made
almost equal progress in reducing poverty in the past three decades.
True
False
Question 25
1.5 / 1.5 pts
African economies are more heavily
oriented towards public sector than the U.S.
True
False
Question 26
1.5 / 1.5 pts
Africa has significantly higher
number of remittance payout locations than in Mexico.
True
False
Question 27
0 / 4 pts
According to the World Bank, which
of the following is the most difficult region to do business?
Africa
Eastern Europe
Asia
Latin America
Question 28
According to creditors and Publish
What You Pay, about what proportion of Congo’s oil revenues did not show up in
the country’s budgets in 2004?
33
25
50
40
Question 29
2.5 / 2.5 pts
About what proportion of aid given
to Africa is spent to pay to consultants?
12
10
16
6
Question 30
About what proportion of aid given
to Africa is spent on debt servicing?
10
16
6
14
Question 31
1.5 / 1.5 pts
A Gallup survey found that most
Nigerian potential entrepreneurs like to formally register their businesses.
True
False
Question 32
The average Indian household‘s
debt to MFIs has remained stable during 2005-2010.
True
False
Question 33
The 1989 Tiananmen events had no
negative influence on entrepreneurship.
True
False
Question 34
SMEs in China account for _______
of the national income but have access to ______ of the country’s financial
resources.
20% , 70 %
70% , 70 %
20% , 20 %
70% , 20 %
Question 35
1.5 / 1.5 pts
In reinstitutionalization, an
existing logic or a governance structure replaced by a new logic or a
governance structure.
True
False
Question 36
1.5 / 1.5 pts
Piracy is illegal in China.
True
False
Question 37
Which of the following countries
granted most patents to per million of its residents during 2000–5?
South Korea
the U.S.
India
China
Question 38
Among the following countries,
which one granted least number of patents to per million of its residents
during 2000–5?
China
India
South Korea
the U.S.
Question 39
Which of the following is not an
institutional change mechanism identified byScott?
reverse institutionalization
institution formation
deinstitutionalization
reinstitutionalization
Question 40
Observers have suggested that
people in India value work in itself as much as people in the U.S. do.
True
False
Question 41
Nowadays, China doesn’t require
its wind farms to source 70 % of their parts from the domestic market anymore.
True
False
Question 42
Majority of China’s IPR cases in
2005 were brought by foreign companies operating in China.
True
False
Question 43
Less than half of the agricultural
as well as nonagricultural workforce is informally employed in India.
True
False
Question 44
It can be argued that China has
more characteristics of oligarchic capitalism than India.
True
False
Question 45
In the Rajsthan state of India,
the law currently doesn’t allow women to work after sunset.
True
False
Question 46
3 / 3 pts
In the Indian offshoring industry,
women account for less than half of the workforce.
True
False
Question 47
In the 1980s in China, the
entrepreneur was considered to be a person who was not able to find other jobs.
True
False
Question 48
1.5 / 1.5 pts
In recent years, the basis of
legitimacy for Chinese Communist Party is shifting towards MarxLeninism.
True
False
Question 49
In early 2011, the number of
Indians using cellphones was about _____ times the number of Indians online.
670
8.4
80
3.8
Question 50
In ___________ organizations take
advantage of differences in various components of formal institutions across
countries.
institutional arbitrage
economic arbitrage
geographic arbitrage
cultural arbitrage
Question 51
In India, literacy rates for
females and males are equal.
True
False
Question 52
In China, entrepreneurs cannot
become CCP members.
True
False
Question 53
In China, most VC funds linked to
the government are considered as a loan.
True
False
Question 54
In China, VC funds provided by the
Chinese government have the same level of risk taking as provided by Western
investors.
True
False
Question 55
In 2009, more Chinese companies
were included in Forbes‘ Global 2000 list than companies from India.
True
False
Question 56
1.5 / 1.5 pts
In 2009, the world’s third largest
patent office was China’s SIPO.
True
False
Question 57
In 2008, about _______% of India‘s
population lacked access to electricity.
50
30
20
40
Question 58
In 2008, more private capital was
invested in China than in the U.S. in the renewable energy sector.
True
False
Question 59
2.5 / 2.5 pts
In 2012, China had ____ times as
many Broadband Internet subscribers per 100 people as India did.
10.8
4.5
22.5
1.3
Question 60
In 2008, China received more
private capital investment in the renewable energy sector than the U.S.
True
False
Question 61
1.5 / 1.5 pts
In 2008, China and India spent
almost equal in the construction of modern highways.
True
False
Question 62
In 2007, India was among the
world’s 10 biggest IPO markets.
True
False
Question 63
1.5 / 1.5 pts
In 2005, VC investment in China
was less than $1 billion.
True
False
Question 64
3 / 3 pts
For the Indian IT company,
Infosys, the markets outside India account for ____ % of its revenue.
98.8
1.2
12
9.88
Question 65
0 / 4.5 pts
For every $100 earned in the
domestic market, India‘s IT firms export ________.
$37.50
$3750
$3.75
$375
Question 66
Everyone agrees that the Israel
model of government funding for startups would be equally effective in India.
True
False
Question 67
Estimates suggest that about 10
families in India control as much as _____ of the stocks of the country’s largest
corporations.
one-fifth
two-fifth
four-fifth
a quarter
Question 68
Economic and political reforms in
China started in _________.
2001
1964
1978
1981
Question 69
During 2002–2011, about _____ of
the Indian population lived on less than US$1.25 a day.
a quarter
32.7%
two-fifth
one-fifth
Question 70
During 1993-2001, the proportions
of adult population that workd were equal in China and India.
True
False
Question 71
3 / 3 pts
Compared to the 2008 level, FDI
declined more sharply in China in 2009 than in India.
True
False
Question 72
2.5 / 2.5 pts
Compared to Russia, China has more
successfully blended nationalism with Marxism.
True
False
Question 73
China’s path to market economy is
different from those of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
True
False
Question 74
1.5 / 1.5 pts
China’s informal banking industry
was estimated to amount less than US$50 billion in 2011.
True
False
Question 75
According to a survey conducted by
Deloitte in 2009, India was more attractive market for VC investors than the
U.S.
True
False
Question 76
3.5 / 3.5 pts
According to a survey conducted by
Deloitte in 2009, _______ was the most attractive market for VC investors.
China
India
the U.S.
Germany
Question 77
According to the 2001 census,
Hinduism accounted for about_____ of the Indian population’s religion.
two-fifth
one-fifth
a quarter
four-fifth
Question 78
China spends more on research and
development (R&D) than India.
True
False
Question 79
The SIPO became the world’s
largest patent office in 2011.
True
False
Question 80
According to the World Bank’s Ease
of Doing Business 2013, India’s regulatory climate for entrepreneurship was
better than more than half of the economies in the world considered in the
study by the World Bank.
True
False
Question 81
Brazil has more mainframe COBOL
programmers than any other countries in the world.
True
False
Question 82
________________ has the world’s
highest number of Java programmers.
The U.S.
Brazil
China
India
Question 83
3.5 / 3.5 pts
Multinationals are mostly
undertaking adaptive R&D projects in ________________.
Brazil
the U.S.
China
India
Question 84
3.5 / 3.5 pts
Among the following economies,
which is more likely to benefit from the trend towards nearshore outsourcing?
Kenya
Brazil
China
India
Question 85
Brazilian banks are among the
world’s most automated.
True
False
Question 86
3.5 / 3.5 pts
__________ has the highest
economic freedom index among the four BRIC economies.
Russia
China
India
Brazil
Question 87
3.5 / 3.5 pts
Of the four BRIC economies,
____________ has the biggest per capita domestic spending in application and
personal software.
China
Russia
Brazil
India
Question 88
Domestic remittance are more
relevant than international remittances to the bottom-of-the-pyramid
households.
True
False
Question 89
M-payment has facilitated
international remittances more than domestic remittances.
True
False
Question 90
3.5 / 3.5 pts
Customers with mobile money
accounts in ________ can receive money from abroad.
Uganda
Rwanda
China
India
Question 91
According to the International
Telecommunication Union, in the early 2013, about _____________ of the
population in the developing world had mobile phones.
nine-tenth
three-quarter
half
a quarter
Question 92
M-PESA was originated in Africa.
True
False
Question 93
For the m-payment system in Kenya,
most transactions are deposits in villages and withdrawals incities.
True
False
Question 94
According to Google India, in the
mid-2011, more than 10% of India’s SMEs were online.
True
False
Question 95
M-PESA was given a banking license
in 2007.
True
False
Question 96
According to the World Bank’s Ease
of Doing Business 2013 report, which of the following is not among the world’s
top 50 countries in terms of the entrepreneurial climate?
Mauritius
South Africa
Rwanda
Uganda
Question 97
In 2012, mobile money market in
Africa was bigger in size than that of Europe.
True
False
