At the beginning of the twenty-first century, deaths from HIV/AIDS
a. are beginning to decrease in most areas of the world.
b. are between 5 and 7 million in the Developing World.
c. gave created more than ten million AIDS orphans in Africa.
d. were rising precipitously in the industrialized world.
Question 2
Today's international economic system
a. is in transition; in many ways it is more stable than it has been for years, but
there are still areas of tension.
b. is particularly pleasing to First World states because of their economic preeminence
over Developing World states.
c. will likely soon change to a system labeled the New International Economic
Order. This change likely will come about because of the insistence of LDCs.
d. remains based on the international gold standard. The gold standard is what has
shielded the international economic system from another serious depression such
as the one experienced in the 1930s.