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Government & Economics of Asia Test-Study Guide!
Economics:
1. Skills and education workers have
2. Total value of goods and services a country produces in a year divided by the population.
3. GDP may go down because of poorly trained workers will not be able to do their jobs.
4. 50%
5. Small family owned farms
6. 25%
7. farmers were given training and new technology
8. one of the world’s leading industrial countries
9. government involvement is important because China is still like a command economy
10. Farmers given better seed and equipment
11. Factories increased production of consumer goods that were easy to sell
12. To act as trade centers for global trade
13. Education
14. Companies provide benefits like health care and recreational facilities
15. Working with industry to be sure they are keeping up with world markets
16. Industry and services
17. Factories and machines used to make the goods
18. Japan’s economy depends heavily on industry and must be modern to compete
19. Overpopulation and poverty
20. Consumer goods
21. Deposit of coal
22. Someone willing to take a risk to begin a new business
23. The country has many types – wealthy ones and those with modest economies
24. Rural village men and women who wish to set up a small business to help their families
25. Government has become more open to entrepreneurship
26. Japan depends on the creative ideas of the country’s entrepreneurs.
Government:
27. Central Government
28. Local governments
29. Power is shared among different levels of govt.
30. The ruler
31. North Korea
32. Small group of powerful leaders
33. China
34. Voters get to choose the people who make the laws
35. India and Japan
36. Legislative
37. Prime minister
38. Political party with the most reps in the legislature
39. Legislature
40. In a separate vote from the one that choose the legislature
41. President must enforce the laws
42. President is a separate branch of government, Prime Minister is part of the legislature
43. The Diet
44. Citizens 18 years or older
45. Citizens 20 years or older
46. Communist
47. National People’s Congress
48. Citizens 18 years or older
49. Every 5 years
50. India
51. First woman Prime Minister in India
52. The people have the real power in Japan
53. Believed to be a god descended from the sun
54. Chinese communist party
55. National People’s Congress
56. President
57. Mao Tse-Tung or Mao Zedong