Introduction to International Development, Practice Quiz: Chapter 24

Introduction to International Development, Practice Quiz: Chapter 24

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. Global poverty eradication came to the center of international agenda in the 1990s because ________.

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. Objective measurement of poverty includes all of the followings except ________.

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. ________income per day is the indication of the absolute poverty.

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. According to modernization theory, economic growth can be reached through ________.

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. A vast number and range of institutions have shaped, and continue to shape, thinking and action on global poverty. These include the following except ________.

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. ________ argues that humanity now has the material capabilities to dramatically reduce or eradicate extreme poverty across the world.

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. ________ is NOT in the list of the UN Open Working Group Recommendations for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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. Human development achievements are disappointing because ________.

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. European social thought began to address poverty as a core issue. ________ do NOT reflect the socialist thought.

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. The SDGs incorporate most of the poverty agenda of the MDGs but move well beyond it. They ________.

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. Around 2010, somewhere between ________ billion people were extremely poor.

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. ________ is the architect of the human development approach.

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. Amartya Sen's framework for conceptualizing human development makes distinctions among all of the following except ________.

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. The ideational adjunct to human development, in terms of the MDGs and plans to achieve the MDGs, was ________.

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. The ________ has been central to the reframing of international development as global poverty eradication.

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. Placing global poverty eradication on the international agenda in the 1990s was the direct result of some natural moral progression.

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. The conceptual foundations of the capability approach can be found in Amartya Sen's critiques of human treatment.

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. In the early 1970s, development thought in the major international agencies began to focus directly on poverty.

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. Millennium Declaration was an important step towards the practical measures for poverty eradication.

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. The idea of human development was welcomed by those with material interests in maintaining the status quo.

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. The IMF has been reluctant to embrace goals that go beyond neo-liberal priorities of economic stability and economic growth.

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. The power of the United States, deriving from its material capabilities, has had many impacts on the evolution of efforts to tackle extreme poverty.

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. In terms of specific goals, the picture of human development achievement is mixed.

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. The international financial institutions (IFIs) have shifted away from one-size-fits-all policy prescriptions to a greater focus on customized national poverty reduction strategies (PRSs) and institutional development.

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. A new millennium demanded that world leaders could agree (eventually) to a negotiated set of anti-poverty goals.

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. From the very advent of the idea of international development the UN was promoting the idea of economic growth as an alternative to human development as a concept and goal.

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. The Millennium Declaration was unanimously approved at the UN General Assembly on 18 September 2000, and what had once been "development" officially became "development and poverty eradication."

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. Human development did not need to reach an accommodation with ideas about economic growth if it was going to be acceptable to the most powerful institutions and nation-states.

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. The idea of human development was welcomed by the emerging super-norm of the MDGs.

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. The Millennium Development Goal to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters has shown the least progress of all the MDGs.

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