Chapter 1 Self-grading Quizzes

What is Development?
. ________ poverty refers to being below the minimum level of income necessary for physical survival.

. Communitarianism is often contrasted with ________.

. ________ is a good indicator of poverty as income deprivation.

. ________ is a term coined by Robert Putnam to refer to the willingness of individuals to cooperate to achieve shared goals and is argued to be necessary for a civic and democratic culture.

. The birth of the modern concept of "international development" is often traced to a speech made by ________.

. The term "Third World" first appeared in ________.

. ________ is NOT included in the UNDP's calculation of the Human Development Index rating.

. An accurate definition of the concept of positionality as it pertains to international development is ________.

. Representing an alternative effort to understand "development," Amartya Sen's ________ approach highlights not only income, but also individuals' freedom to make the choices they value.

. Cosmopolitan ethics argues that justice is owed to all people regardless of ________.

. The ________ ranks the countries of the world by their HDI score.

. Libertarianism is exemplified in the work of ________.

. In 2018, the country with the highest HDI score was ________.

. Moderate poverty is typically considered to be an income of ________.

. Charles Jones is associated with the ________ approach to global redistribution.

. The capability approach to poverty and development focuses on the ability of individuals to purchase basic supplies.

. Distribution of income is also known as "income inequality."

. Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs) was a term developed in the 1970s to refer to a group of high-growth developing countries, including South Korea and Hong Kong.

. Relative poverty is defined as an income that does not threaten basic survival, but that does prevent individuals from fully participating in their society.

. The Gini coefficient is an abstract measurement of economic growth in an economy.

. According to Charles Jones, a consequentialist ethic judges the moral justness of an act based on the goodness or value that its outcome produces.

. Income inequality is important in part because it forces us to confront the injustice in most developing societies.

. A country has typically been judged "developed" or "developing" in the past based on the degree of social protection it affords to the most vulnerable populations in society.

. A "development tourist" is someone who structures their vacations around volunteering for charitable NGOs working in developing countries.

. Prior to the use of the term "underdeveloped," there were no clear distinction between the condition of life in the developed and underdeveloped countries.

. The French demographer Alfred Sauvy used the term "tiers état" ("Third Estate") to refer to countries outside the Western bloc and the Soviet Union.

. Critical theorists have pointed out that labelling within international development shapes future policy-making.

. Newly Industrialized Countries include India, Mexico, Brazil, and South Africa.

. The term "Fourth World" has come into usage to denote the poorest of the poor countries.

. The Gini coefficient is the most commonly used measure of income inequality.

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