Government & Economics of Asia Test-Study Guide!

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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