8 Governance, Resistance, and Change Online Quiz Questions

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It provides a forum for trade negotiations, monitors members’ trade policies, and offers a process for resolving disputes between governments.

It finances countries facing balance-of-payments crises and sets the conditions for every international loan.

It directly sets workplace requirements for all suppliers in global supply chains.

It requires every country to adopt the same climate plan and enforce it internationally.

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It sets product standards and delivery schedules for firms in global supply chains.

It monitors economic conditions and provides financing to countries facing balance-of-payments crises; conditions attached to some loans may constrain domestic choices or distribute adjustment costs unevenly.

It establishes binding workplace requirements for every multinational corporation.

It coordinates countries’ climate plans under the Paris Agreement.

Strikes

Automatic access to international courts for every affected community

Consumer boycotts

Negotiations with governments or companies

Guaranteed protection from retaliation for all organizers

Factories and workers usually control branding and access to consumers, while lead firms carry most of the production risk.

Lead firms may control branding and access to consumers, while factories and workers face pressure to meet low-cost, fast-turnaround orders.

Trade rules guarantee that value is divided evenly among every country and business in the supply chain.

A company’s headquarters location ensures that workers in every production country receive a greater share of income.

Whether affected groups are represented and can challenge the rules

Who gains and who bears costs, including effects on work, health, and the environment

Whether implementation includes monitoring, enforcement, and remedies

Whether governance builds local capacity and bargaining power or concentrates control elsewhere

Whether written commitments exist, even if there is no monitoring or enforcement

Mobile corporations, creditors, trade agreements, or competition with other countries may constrain its choices.

International institutions directly replace national governments in making every domestic policy decision.

Communities affected by infrastructure projects always have the same influence as large firms.

Trade agreements eliminate the need for governments to regulate labor markets or investment.

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It directly enforces identical emissions rules on all companies in every country.

It provides a framework for countries to communicate climate plans and strengthen action over time.

It sets purchasing prices and delivery schedules for global supply chains.

It resolves trade disputes between governments.

Rely only on voluntary supplier audits, since they ensure fair prices and safe work.

Require suppliers to meet faster deadlines while keeping prices low.

Combine effective oversight with accountability for lead-firm purchasing practices.

Remove worker representation so suppliers can respond more quickly to buyers.

It may expand production without ensuring better conditions or broad sharing of income.

It guarantees that workers receive a greater share of the value created.

It ensures that design, branding, and technology move to the exporting country.

It prevents lead firms from controlling access to consumers.

Notify Indigenous peoples after project decisions are final.

Offer compensation instead of involving communities in decisions.

Require communities to prove that a project will cause environmental harm.

Consult and cooperate in good faith to obtain free, prior, and informed consent in specified decisions and projects.