Chapter 1 Review Questions

What is Development?
  1. What is cosmopolitanism and how does it relate to international development?
  2. What are the main problems with the use of GDP per capita as a measure of development? Discuss at least four problems in your answer.
  3. What do the authors mean when they suggest that development researchers and practitioners “need to do more listening and less talking”?
  4. Explain the concept of growth and equity. What is its importance to development theorists?
  5. What are the three possible reasons for the prevalence of inequality in the developing world?
  6. What is the relevance of ethics to development issues?
  7. Why does Amartya Sen argue that economic development does not reflect a good conception of development?
  8. What does it mean to say that development is a multidimensional conception?
  9. Discuss three of the larger global issues in the last five years that are contributing to international development challenges.
  10. Choose three of the Sustainable Development Goals and discusses how reaching these goals would contribute to global development.
  11. What does “no one left behind” mean in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals? Why is that important?
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