Exam 1: What Is Development? From Economic Growth to the Sustainable Development Goals

Development economist Jeffery Sachs argues that since 1820, the gap in GDP per capita between developing and developed countries has increased how many times?

What are the implications of the concept of "positionality" as it relates to development researchers and practitioners?

Which of the following was implied by the term "underdeveloped"?

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) emerged as a political bloc alternative to the Soviet and American superpowers.

What does the 2019 fires in the Amazon say about development policies in Brazil?

The terms used to describe people, places, and processes within international development reflect the evolution of thinking about the relationship among nations.

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced developing and developed countries to shut down their economies, plunging the world into an economic and human well-being crisis.

What is the libertarian view as it relates to wealth and poverty?

Briefly discuss arguments that have been made against global redistributive justice.

Harry Truman's 1949 speech is the first time a politician of that stature used the term "development." By development, Truman meant a single, overarching scale on which to compare nations' success or progress in relation to each other.

Positionality describes the way states are economically positioned toward one another.

Absolute poverty is defined by the World Bank as an income below US$3.20 per day.

Critical theorists have pointed out that labeling plays at least two important roles: labels make existing practices appear legitimate, and they also shape future policy-making.

The Millennium Development Goals were ground-breaking because:

Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is useful for measuring inequality.

Define the term "Newly Industrialized Countries" (NICs) and list three examples of such countries.

A country's gross domestic product (GDP) is a measure of how much money each person in the country makes in a year.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) differed from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the following important ways:

Peter Singer uses what analogy to ask if frivolous spending is more morally important than the life of humans in the Global South?

What is the UN's Human Development Index and what factors is it designed to measure?