1A: Defining development

Question 1

Poverty definition (UN 1995)

Answer 1

Condition of severe deprivation of basic human needs

Question 2

Development doesn’t = economic growth

Answer 2

1. No attention to how capital is distributed
2. Composition - is it consumption goods and services or public goods such as healthcare/education
3. No indication of social, physical, pol & envr in which output produced

Question 3

Development

Answer 3

Processes of social change/ to class and state projects to transform national economies, particularly in 3rd world/ formerly colonised geographies

Question 4

Economic growth

Answer 4

Increase of output of goods and services that a country produces over an accounting period, normally a year

Question 5

Top 5 Donors

Answer 5

UK, USA, France, Germany, Japan

Question 6

Top 5 Recipients

Answer 6

Iraq, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Afghanistan, Vietnam

Question 7

AID

Answer 7

Conditionality (--> dependency) 
direct budget support
high earning individuals
developed --> developing
charitable 
bi/multilateral
loans/interest

Question 8

Development state

Answer 8

State implemented
National development
Large population
Industrial sector

Question 9

Human rights approach

Answer 9

Freedom
Law
Fair trial 
Security
Expression and movement 
Health
Liberty 
Working conditions

Question 10

Development failure?

Answer 10

poor projects?
is it working?
inequality - gap widened past 70 years
dependency?
pro-capitalist?
neo-liberalism?
anti-market?