Ch26 Poverty, Hunger, And Developmenttony Verified Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 - Question 01

01) In all countries, both rich and poor, the income gap continues to increase, most notably in sub-Saharan Africa, and for women and girls in all parts of the world.

a. True.

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 - Question 02

02) The orthodox approach to hunger states that there is enough food, but that the problem is distribution and entitlement.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 - Question 03

03) A critical alternative view of poverty places emphasis on lack of access to community, resources, community ties, and spiritual and cultural values.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 - Question 04

04) Democracy, as an instrument for the voice of the poor, is at the heart of the alternative conception of development.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 - Question 05

05) Globalization can simultaneously contribute to increased food production and increased hunger.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 - Question 06

06) The baseline figure for determining poverty varies across institutions; the UN calculates the proportion of people living on less than ____ per day, while the World Bank calculates the proportion of people living on less than ____ per day.

a. $1.90; $1.25

b. $1.25; $1.50

c. $1.50; $1.25

d. $1.25; $1.90

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 - Question 07

07) Which approach to development argues that poverty can be resolved through the transformation of traditional subsistence economies defined as ‘backward’ into industrial, commodified economies defined as ‘modern’?

a. Post-structural

b. Orthodox

c. Alternative

d. Positivist

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 - Question 08

08) How is hunger defined?

a. Through an ‘input/output’ model, where food (calorific input) is sufficient to maintain body weight and a level of physical activity (output) consistent with long-term health.

b. Through household income and expenditure surveys.

c. Through a behavioural view, looking at perceptions of hunger.

d. All of the options given are correct.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 - Question 09

09) Who argues that at the beginning of the twenty-first century we are witnessing an increasingly global organization of food provision and access to food with transnational corporations playing the major role?

a. Goodman and Redclift.

b. Rapley.

c. Friedman and Stiglitz.

d. Bennett and George.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 - Question 10

10) What term refers to an international economic order based on the pursuit of free trade, but allowing an appropriate role for state intervention in the market in support of national security and national and global stability?

a. Embedded liberalism

b. Neo-liberalism

c. Mercantilism

d. Global capitalism

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 - Question 11

11) What view of development argues for a process that is bottom up, participatory, and reliant on appropriate (often local) knowledge and technology, with small investments in small-scale projects and a protection of the commons?

a. Orthodox

b. Alternative

c. World systems

d. Liberal

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 - Question 12

12) Which of the following statements is true of education in Himachal Pradesh?

a. The level of primary education attainment has increased.

b. The number of children who receive no education is low.

c. The state has made of point of educating girls and women, as well as members of the so-called ‘excluded groups’.

d. All of the answers given are correct.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 - Question 13

13) What did Amartya Sen argue in his pioneering book Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation?

a. Only some people are entitled to food.

b. There is a direct correlation between food production and famines.

c. Hunger is due to there not being enough to eat.

d. Hunger is due to people not having enough to eat, because they are not regarded to have entitlement to food, rather than there not being enough to eat.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 - Question 14

14) _______________ stresses pro-poor growth and poverty reduction based on continued domestic policy reform that includes more trade liberalization and further state withdrawal from economic and social policy.

a. The Washington Consensus

b. The post-Washington Consensus

c. The critical, alternative approach

d. None of the answers given are correct.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 26 - Question 15

15) What development strategy/policy favoured by the IMF, World Bank, and the US compels developing countries to reform their economies along neo-liberal lines in order to compete in the global market?

a. Limited protectionism

b. Pro-poor growth

c. Structural adjustment

d. Agricultural subsidy with free trade