Exam 26: Poverty, Hunger, and Development

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

How is hunger defined?

_______________ 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.

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.

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'?

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

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

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?

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.

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?

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

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

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