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Chapter 9: The Politics of Multinational Corporations Multiple Choice Questions 1. The politics of MNCs emerge from the competing interests of a) host countries of MNCs. b) home countries of MNCs. c) the MNCs themselves. d) host countries and home countries. e) host countries and home countries and the MNCs themselves. Answer: e 2. In the immediate postwar era, according to Oatley, the fifteen largest agricultural MNCs controlled approximately a) 10% of developing countries’ exports. b) 30% of developing countries’ exports. c) 50% of developing countries’ exports. d) 80% of developing countries’ exports. e) 95% of developing countries’ exports. Answer: d 3. The central political concern for developing countries regarding MNCs ownership of critical natural-resource industries was that a) it compromised the hard-won national autonomy achieved in the struggle for independence. b) governments would be unable to use these resources to promote ISI strategies. c) extractive industries did not usually transfer technology. d) extractive industries used primarily foreign workers so that skills were obtained by domestic workers. e) extractive industries accelerated the depletion of non-renewable resources. Answer: a 4. Nationalization was common during the late 1960s and the first half of the 1970s. Nationalizations occurred most often in a) banking and transportation. b) banking and public utilities. c) transportation and extractive industries. d) banking and extractive industries. e) extractive industries and public utilities. Answer: e
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