1. How many people are estimated to have been brought out of poverty via globalization? ___________

2. What percentage of the world's software engineers are Indian? ___________

3. What criticisms have been offered of genetically-modified crops?

4. What are "straggling (fish) stocks"?

5. Provide examples of possible shortcomings of globalization.

6. Living standards in China have been doubling every _____ years.

7. The economy of South Africa was said to have been built upon what mineral? __________________

8. Why have many world banks sold off their gold reserves in recent years?

9. What percentage of the world's population lives in poverty? ______________