Ch10 - Rethinking Development Complete Test Bank - Complete Test Bank Development and Social Change 6e with Answers by Philip McMichael. DOCX document preview.
Development and Social Change, 6th edition
Philip McMichael
Chapter 10 - Rethinking Development
Test Bank
1. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY: According to the text, development is in crisis because
a. the pain of global north's neoliberalism exposed the weaknesses of the development model
b. development is linked to globalization
c. how we understand and measure development is in disarray.
d. development has led to environmental degradation
Answer Location: Development in the Gear of Social Change
Page Number: 281
2. Lorenzo Fioramonti refers to GDP, the conventional measure of development, as the 'statistical laundromat' because
a. the measure is developed by 'clean' statisticians
b. the measure values clean states
c. the measure masks social inequalities and negatives associated with GDP
d. the measure absorbs all the dirty outcomes of development
Answer Location: Development in the Gear of Social Change
Page Number: 281
3. Why did the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress conclude that "our measurement system failed us"
a. it failed to alert the commission that economic progress was achieved at the expense of future growth and sustainability
b. it focused on measuring people's well-being instead of economic production
c. it focused exclusively on measures of sustainability
d. it failed to measure the role of women in development
Answer Location: Development in the Gear of Social Change
Page Number: 281
4. The "Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress" declaration open the door to including ______ in the measurement of development
a. agricultural inputs
b. non-market services
c. financial services
d. globalization indicators
Answer Location: Nonmarket Values
Page Number: 281
5. All of the following are examples of non-market services except:
a. intergenerational care
b. communitarianism
c. health care
d. environmental and economic security
Answer Location: Nonmarket Values
Page Number: 281
6. The advantage of the Human Development Index (HDI) over the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is that it (HDI) focuses more on ______
a. composite economic indicators
b. composite assets
c. composite of life expectancy and literacy
d. composite of morbidity and mortality
Answer Location: Nonmarket Values
Page Number: 281
7. Beyond the fixation on economic indicators, current measures of development also lead to deepening of:
a. international differences
b. intercultural conflict
c. intergenerational differences
d. social inequalities
Answer Location: Politicizing Inequality
Page Number: 281
8. The observation that the United States is experiencing Latin Americanization is an implicit reference to
a. rising social inequality between the rich and the poor
b. rising standards of living among its Latin American elite
c. rising social capital among the Hispanic population
d. rising social inequality between Latin America and the United States.
Answer Location: Politicizing Inequality
Page Number: 284
9. According to the text, globalization results in not only a progressive incorporation of all traditional subcultures into market networks, but also
a. progressive integration of peasants into global market
b. deepening of global circuits of affluence
c. exclusion of minority populations
d. progressive incorporation of global north into global south
Answer Location: Geography of Inequality
Page Number: 284
10. While the development project has increased the participation of the poor on interventions, such an approach has one fundamental flaw, that it
a. it justifies such participation on the grounds of its material benefits
b. it promotes state corruption of the elite
c. it ignores existing power relations, doing little to alter them
d. it ignores globalization and its discontents
Answer Location: Paradigm Change
Page Number: 284
11. The development paradox refers to the extent to which participatory methods reproduce ______, and
renew development's legitimacy as poverty adversary.
a. class equality
b. class conflict
c. income
d. inequalities
Answer Location: Paradigm Change
Page Number: 284
12. All of the following are alternative measures of development, identified in the textbook, except:
a. Gross National Happiness (GNH)
b. Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (IDEW)
c. Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)
d. Development Assessment Indicator (DAI)
Answer Location: Paradigm Change
Page Number: 290
13. The Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) is a better measure of development than the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), because while GDP counts the value of timber from native forests as a benefit and stops there, ______
a. the GPI also counts the environmental costs of logging
b. the GPI also counts the human/labor costs of logging
c. the GPI also takes into the account the role of global forces
d. the GPI refocuses our attention on costs of planting new timber
Answer Location: Paradigm Change
Page Number: 290
14. One concern of development theorists is the capacity of the earth to sustain human population growth. This concern however is not actually about how many people the earth can sustain but also depends on
a. where the people most affected reside - global south or global north
b. conservation efforts of the affected populations
c. the consumption habits/patterns of humans
d. whether they are depleting renewable resources or not
Answer Location: Paradigm Change
Page Number: 290
15. Degrowth economics is designed to counter
a. prevailing economic tendency to equate unbridled growth with development
b. offer a less fashionable alternative to development
c. counter neoliberalism with small-scale development
d. support the belief that bigger is always better
Answer Location: Degrowth Economics
Page Number: 290
16. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY. Economist Serge Latouche suggests that growth economics is like an HIV virus. This is because
a. just like HIV destroys a body's immune system, growth economics destroys contemporary societies
b. just like HIV infects new cells to weaken the body's immune system, growth economics spreads though society, weakening its ability to survive. growth economic is incurable, just as HIV is
d. growth economics is not easily detectable.
Answer Location: Degrowth Economics
Page Number: 290
17. All of the following are examples of degrowth economics, except:
a. voluntarily switching to lower paid jobs
b. choosing to reduce hours of work
c. deciding to stay at home and look after children
d. deciding to forgo one's salary in favor of tax incentives
Answer Location: Degrowth Economics
Page Number: 292
18. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY. The goal of the divestment movement from fossil fuel is
a. reduce the impact of climate change on the world
b. switch to renewable energy
c. switch to low carbon investments
d. switch to gray energy
Answer Location: Degrowth Economics
Page Number: 294
19. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY. The ultimate goal of the the Transition Town movement is to manage energy and climate challenged future by
a. mobilizing community resources to rediscover local capacity
b. reducing ecological footprints and increase resilience of communities to ravaged by climate change
c. forming alliance with climate change organizations to redress environmental ills
d. competing for limited resources after environmental degradation
Answer Location: Transition Towns
Page Number: 295
20. Unlike conventional development models, Transition town models on
a. cooperation, instead of competition among communities and regions
b. competition, instead of cooperation among communities and regions
c. harmonization, instead of confusion among competing groups
d. trust and fellowship of all community members
Answer Location: Transition Towns
Page Number: 295
21. Both the Transition Town and the Common's movements share one important objective and belief:
a. the capacity of social transformation and development through local initiatives
b. the need for external incentives as motivators for development
c. the belief in free market
d. the belief in sociological transformation of society
Answer Location: Transition Towns and Commons
Page Number: 295-296
22. The objective of the "Commons" is
a. enclosing private property for common use
b. establishing a common property lost under capitalism
c. to protect the yet-to-be completely destroyed or expropriated living spaces in the developing world
d. to protect the commonality of beliefs among global south communities.
Answer Location: Commons
Page Number: 296
23. The new paradigms of "Bamtaare" in West Africa, "Buen Vivir" in Ecuador, demonstrate new orientations of _______ underlying new and future models of development.
a. fairness, harmoniousness, good quality of life
b. competition and capriciousness
c. intolerance and indifference
d. secrecy and independence
Answer Location: Commons
Page Number: 296
24. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY. According to the text, rethinking may well require a first step of unthinking development as we know it. This process involves recognizing
a. values routinely discounted in conventional development metrics
b. the importance of ecological balance
c. the emptiness of values based on monetary relations
d. the uncertainty of future development
Answer Location: Conclusions
Page Number: 299
25. The need for a new and shifting development paradigm is spurred by all of he following events and issues, except
a. failure to solve problems of poverty through the Millennium Development Goals
b. the global financial crises of 2008 and 2009
c. exposure of the flaws of the Washington Consensus
d. rising terrorism
Answer Location: Conclusions
Page Number: 298
26. Conventional models of development are inaccurate because they focus only on the ____ of the process, neglecting the fact that material and wealth accumulation depended on the ________, ________
a. positives; negatives, access to resources to exploit
b. negatives; positive, wealth accumulation
c. short term effects; long term, environmental outcomes
d. positives; negatives; access to third world debt.
Answer Location: Conclusions
Page Number: 298
27. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY. The principle of decoupling is intended to ________
a. reduce material waste throughout the economy
b. dispense with short-term growth imperatives
c. refocus on protecting long term social and ecological goals
d. accelerate the process of decentraliation
Answer Location: Degrowth Economics
Page Number: 292
28. Degrowth economic movements are spreading in all of the following countries except:
a. Italy
b. Spain
c. Canada
d. Norway
Answer Location: Degrowth Economics
Page Number: 292
29. The Second International Conference on Degrowth was held in 2010 in
a. Barcelona
b. United Kingdom
c. France
d. Spain
Answer Location: Degrowth Economics
Page Number: 292
30. Development futures will be governed by the tensions between two concepts: "one world" ontology symbolized by ______, and "pluriverse" worldview symbolized by _____.
a. globalization; localization.
b. particularization; universalization
c. communitarianism; individualism
d. meritocracy; plutocracy.
Answer Location: Conclusions
Page Number: 299
31. The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are meant to replace the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) of 2000.
a. True
b. False
Answer Location: Rethinking Development
Page Number: 280
32. Development is in crisis partly because of the failure of neoliberal policy reforms to convince the rest of the world of the sustainability of the "development" model.
a. True
b. False
Answer Location: Development in the Gear of Social Change
Page Number: 280.
33. Current measures of development are not adequate because of their emphasis on nonmarket forces.
a. True
b. False
Answer Location: Development in the Gear of Social Change
Page Number: 280.
34. The Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) is a better measure of development than the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
a. True
b. False
Answer Location: Paradigm Change
Page Number: 290
35. Degrowth economics is more sustainable than conventional economic growth models because it depends on people making conscious efforts, voluntarily to downsize their economic earnings and consumptions
a. True
b. False
Answer Location: Degrowth Economics
Page Number: 292
36. Transition Town models thrive on principles of competition.
a. True
b. False
Answer Location: Transition Towns
Page Number: 295
37. Transition Town and Commons models of alternative futures demonstrate the role of local communities and groups to chart their own visions of development.
a. True
b. False
Answer Location: Transition Towns and Commons
Page Number: 295-296
38. New models of redfining development were resulted from the failure of the Washington Concensus and its derivatives such as Millenium Development Goals
a. True
b. False
Answer Location: Conclusions
Page Number: 298
39. Rethinking may well require a first step of unthinking development as we know it".
a. True
b. False
Answer Location: Conclusions
Page Number: 299
40. Development futures will be governed by the tensions between these two concepts: the “one world” ontology, symbolized by “globalization,” and the “pluriverse” world view, symbolized by “localization”.
a. True
b. False
Answer Location: Conclusions
Page Number: 299
41. What are non-market values and how important are they to understanding and measurement of development?
Answer Location: Nonmarket Values
Page Number: 281
42. Karl Polanyi states that the United States is experiencing a disembodiment of market relations from society. Explain.
Answer Location: Politicizing Inequality
Page Number: 284
43. Briefly explain the statement: “Development policy needs to be about poor people, not just about poor countries"
Answer Location: Paradigm Change
Page Number: 284
45. What are the principles of de-growth economics and how does it challenge dominant conceptions of development? How is the idea of de-growth featured in the sustainability project? Explain how some social movements exemplify, or put into practice, the ideas of degrowth (give at least two examples).
Answer Location: Degrowth Economics
Page Number: 290-292
46. What is the Transition Town movement’s vision of the future? How would this vision translate into development practice and policies? From the perspective of a transition town paradigm, how would you measure development?
Answer Location: Transition Towns
Page Number: 295
47. How does the idea of Buen Vivir reformulate the meaning and practice of development?
Answer Location: Commons
Page Number: 296
48.In what ways and why might the practice of ‘reclaiming the commons’ be a central feature of a de-growth development paradigm?
Answer Location: Commons
Page Number: 296
49. Discuss the view that "Development is thought of and measured only in terms of the positive side of the material ledger"
Answer Location: Commons
Page Number: 298
50. What is the “pluriverse” world view and how does it differ from the “one world”ontology of globalization? What are the tenets of these two paradigms and how would you characterize their competing visions of the future? Provide examples of each paradigm in practice.
pts: "one world" ontology symbolized by globalization, and "pluriverse" worldview symbolized by localization understood as a globally situated process (including connectivity via networks and webs. Though globalization has been all embracing, localization would become a predominant force in the future, as it implies that the forces of globalization would be applied and suited to local context. The Transition Towns and Commons could be examples of localization.
Answer Location: Commons
Page Number: 299
Document Information
Connected Book
Complete Test Bank Development and Social Change 6e with Answers
By Philip McMichael