Cgms 691

CGMS691 Module 1 and Module 2 Self-Study Questions

For these questions you don't need to remember the actual numbers.

Please find out information from World Bank and other sources. Most recent data is 2015.

1. East & South Asia geography & history (questions on countries covered by CGMS691 only, most current data from World bank, UN, etc.)

2. Please study the map of this region and know where each country is and who are its neighbors.

3. Please learn the meaning of the following: ASEAN, APEC, East Asia Summit, Non-Alignment Movement, Commonwealth of Nations.

-ASEAN: association of southeast Asian nations, comprised of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand

-NIE: new industrialized economies, includes Singapore, south korea and Taiwan

4. What is Human Development Index (HDI)?

-composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income per capita indicators

5. What is the International Dollar? Where is it often used?

-US dollar, often used in conjunction with purchasing power parity data

6. Please identify five valid data sources for this course listed on D2L.

7. For each country, please identify its major industry sectors (most significant and competitive ones, about three).

8. For each country, please learn of its major exports.

9. Please identify four east Asian countries, five southeast Asian countries, and the country in south Asia?

-china, japan, south korea, Taiwan

-indonisia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, philippines

10. Please identify five most populous countries in 2015.

11. Identify three countries with the highest life expectancy at birth in 2015 in this region -–Singapore, Japan, south korea

12. Identify the following countries by land size: the largest, the second largest, the smallest.

13. Identify three countries that have the highest HDI in 2015? .   –Singapore, Japan, south korea

14. Identify three countries with the highest GDP per capita in this region in 2015?

-singapore, Japan, South Korea

15. Identify three countries with the highest GDP in this region in 2015?

-China, Japan and India  

16. Identify three countries with the fastest GDP growth rate in 2015.

-India, China, and Vietnam

17. Identify three countries with highest government expenditure on education in 2015 (with available data).

-vietnam, south korea and Thailand

18. Identify three country with the lowest birth rate and another three with highest birth rate in 2015.

-high: Philippines, Indonesia and india

-low: Japan, South korea, and Thailand

19. What is busines? Give five examples.

-a pattern of relationship between and among individuals and social groups

-ex: family, team, enterprises, clubs, online communities

20. What are the characteristics of a social organization?

-qualities such as sexual composition, spatiotemporal, cohesion, leadership, structure,division of labour, communication systems and so on  

21. Identify three countries with the highest Internet users (% of population) in 2015.

-Japna, south korea and Malaysia

22. Identify three countries with the highest saving rate (% of GDP).

-China, Singapore, and philippines

23. Identify two countries whose population is almost made of a single ethnic group?

-South Korea,

24. All these countries have history of colonization (or invasion), for each country please learn of the major foreign influences in the recent history.

25. For each country, please learn of it major religions (up to three major ones, if a country has several major religions, like India, then you need to know it).

-India: Hindu 79.8%, Muslim 14.2%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.7%, other and unspecified 2% (2011 est.)

-Indonesia: Muslim 87.2%, Christian 7%, Roman Catholic 2.9%, Hindu 1.7%, other 0.9% (includes Buddhist and Confucian), unspecified 0.4% (2010 est.)

-Thailand: Buddhist (official) 93.6%, Muslim 4.9%, Christian 1.2%, other 0.2%, none 0.1% (2010 est.)

-Vietnam: Buddhist 7.9%, Catholic 6.6%, Hoa Hao 1.7%, Cao Dai 0.9%, Protestant 0.9%, Muslim 0.1%, none 81.8% (2009 est.)

-China: Buddhist 18.2%, Christian 5.1%, Muslim 1.8%, folk religion 21.9%, Hindu < 0.1%, Jewish < 0.1%, other 0.7% (includes Daoist (Taoist)), unaffiliated 52.2%

-Japan: Shintoism 79.2%, Buddhism 66.8%, Christianity 1.5%, other 7.1%

-South korea: Christian 31.6% (Protestant 24.0%, Catholic 7.6%), Buddhist 24.2%, other or unknown 0.9%, none 43.3% (2010 est.)

-Singapore: Buddhist 33.9%, Muslim 14.3%, Taoist 11.3%, Catholic 7.1%, Hindu 5.2%, other Christian 11%, other 0.7%, none 16.4% (2010 est.)

-Malaysia: Muslim (official) 61.3%, Buddhist 19.8%, Christian 9.2%, Hindu 6.3%, Confucianism, Taoism, other traditional Chinese religions 1.3%, other 0.4%, none 0.8%, unspecified 1% (2010 est.)

-Philippines: Catholic 82.9% (Roman Catholic 80.9%, Aglipayan 2%), Muslim 5%, Evangelical 2.8%, Iglesia ni Kristo 2.3%, other Christian 4.5%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.6%, none 0.1% (2000 census)

26. Which country is called "Lion City"?

-singapore

27. Which country is the most populous democracy in the world?

-India

28. Can you identify three world famous people from these Asian countries (must be real people within 100 years and excluding cartoon, movie & literature characters)

CGMS691 Module 3 Questions Winter 2017

All questions refer to the ten East and Southeast countries covered by CGMS691. Information is in

Module 3, two required readings and online research.

1. What is a business group? What differentiates it from other types of business associations?

-companies within business group is linked by cross-shareholding, which denotes common administrative and financial control with common managerial relationship

2. Please identify the distinguishing characteristics of a business group (Strachan and scholarly identification)

-Strachan: a diversity of enterprise within the group, pluralism (a coalition of business people and family) –utmost loyalty and trust

-Scholars: -they function as multidivisional conglomerates that consist of independent legal entities, -although there are no legal bindings among these companies, they tend to be centrally controlled and coordinated