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Identification. Identify the following terms implied by the following statements. Write your answers on the blanks provided.

1. Process of people moving from the rural areas to the cities ____________

2. Process of developing the cities in a country ____________

3. Labor intensive industries that do not require big loans and factories ____________

4. Education system that is taken according to different stages and specific years like high school ____________

5. The number of students that may be accepted on a scholarship basis ____________

6. A program to improve the distribution of land between the rich and the poor ____________

7. Government workers sent to the provinces to teach farmers modern farm techniques____________

8. Type of farming where the farmers can only produce for their own needs and there is no extra to sell ____________

9. An organization of farmers in the rural areas established to combine their resources to facilitate farm activities ____________

10. Facilities like roads, bridges, dams and communication systems provided by the government____________

Enumeration. Write your answers on the blanks provided.

1.- 2. Two sources of taxation ____________ ____________

3.- 4. Two systems of education ____________ ____________

5.- 6. Two parties involved in a land reform program ____________ ____________

7.- 8. Traditional role of agriculture and the rural areas ____________ ____________

9. Modern role of agriculture ____________

10. Level of education which should get the least support from the government ____________

The following are variables and conditions involved in the development process. Write on the blanks provided whether the given variables or conditions should increase or decrease to finally realize economic growth.

1. vocational courses ____________

2. interest rate of agricultural loans____________

3. farmers' cooperatives ____________

4. government subsidy on college education ____________

5. tax collections ____________

6. extension workers ____________

7. usurers ____________

8. rural banks ____________

9. job opportunities ____________

10. farm to market roads ____________

11. infrastructures ____________

12. population growth rate ____________

13. fertility rates ____________

14. diversification of crops ____________

15. labor problems ____________

16. brain drain ____________

17. investments ____________

18. power of political families ____________

19. self-sufficiency in food ____________

20. income differences in urban and rural areas____________

21. level of wages ____________

22. purchases of luxuries ____________

23. inequalities in income distribution ____________

24. income per capita ____________

25. research on local materials ____________

26. government services ____________

27. importation of machines ____________

28. unemployment level _____________

29. economic opportunities ____________

30. overseas workers ____________

Underline the best answer as to how the following can best support development.

1. Labor disputes with management should be settled [by a strike, amicable means, through a lawsuit].

2. The sending of contract workers to other countries should be [temporary, permanent].

3. The development of the rural areas should be [faster, slower] than the urban centers to minimize migration.

4. Agriculture has a [minor, major, no] role in development.

5. Urban jobs [solve, can not solve] the problems in the rural areas.

6. Government projects provide [jobs, income] for the rural workers.

7. The farmers should [depend on, support, go against] the government to fully realize the gains from a land reform program.

8. Infrastructures improve the [selling, use, availability] of resources in the different areas of the country.

9. If the rural area is a mere provider of food and cheap labor, 45 this role is [passive, active].

10. A high school diploma [should not be, should be] required for a supervisory job.

11. A big population is responsible for [all economic problems, worsening the existing problems, maintaining the problems] in an economy.

12. [Non-formal, formal] education should be pursued more in a poor country.

13. The land reform program involves [reallocation, redistribution, confiscation] of land from the rich to the poor. 14. The most important factor of production for development is [labor, money, machines, land].

15. Lending to farmers is very risky because [they are poor, of natural calamities, they are irresponsible].

16. More [commercial banks, rural banks, savings banks] should be opened in the provinces to support development there.

17. Farmers have remained poor because land is concentrated with [the government, few families].

18. Unemployment causes crime rates to [ increase, decrease] in the cities.

19. Rural-urban migration results in [shortage, surplus] of workers in the farms.

20. Cooperatives can help [ increase, decrease ] the prices of farm inputs.

Trace what happens to the following to explain how a land reform program eventually increases the need for industries.

1. possibility of land ownership by farmers

2. income of farmers

3. capability to buy goods and services

4. demand for goods and services by farmers

5. where and who will produce these goods desired by farmers