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What is Development?
- What is cosmopolitanism and how does it relate to international development?
- 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.
- What do the authors mean when they suggest that development researchers and practitioners “need to do more listening and less talking”?
- Explain the concept of growth and equity. What is its importance to development theorists?
- What are the three possible reasons for the prevalence of inequality in the developing world?
- What is the relevance of ethics to development issues?
- Why does Amartya Sen argue that economic development does not reflect a good conception of development?
- What does it mean to say that development is a multidimensional conception?
- Discuss three of the larger global issues in the last five years that are contributing to international development challenges.
- Choose three of the Sustainable Development Goals and discusses how reaching these goals would contribute to global development.
- What does “no one left behind” mean in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals? Why is that important?