The global core can best be described as:

a. A strong, well-integrated states whose economic activities are diversified and capital intensive.
b. A series of areas lacking strong state machinery and engaged in producing relatively few unfinished goods by unskilled, low-wage labor.
c. A structural position within which a state may gain economic primacy by achieving productive, commercial, and financial superiority over its rivals.
d. a. and b.
e. a. and d.

E