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List and explain some of the major reasons for plan failures. Which reasons do you think are the most important? Explain your thinking.
Compare and contrast the three basic types of planning models: aggregate growth models, input-output analysis, and project appraisal.
Why do you think so many developing countries were convinced of the necessity of development planning? Were the reasons strictly economic? Comment?
What insights can be found from a comparison of Haiti and the DR for the potential role of environment in economic development?
What are natural resources-based livelihoods, and how are they threatened? What are common property resources?
How do farmers in developing countries adapt to climate change that they experience? What are the main ideas of environmental accounting?
What is the environmental Kuznets curve? What factors may make it plausible? In what cases does it seem implausible?
In what ways can developed nations best contribute to the alleviation of global and domestic environmental problems?
What are some of the costs associated with environmental degradation? How might they detract from economic growth?
In what ways does neoclassical theory provide a useful framework for analyzing environmental issues? What are some of its limitations?
What steps might governments in less developed countries take to reduce overexploitation of natural resources? What impact do pricing policies have?
How are population growth, poverty, and land pressures interrelated? Explain how these problems can create a vicious circle of events.
Is sustainable development a practical and feasible goal for nations? What might be some of the difficulties and possible trade-offs? Explain your answer?
Explain the argument that effective agricultural policies center around the role of women? What special strategies may be used to address them?
If land reform is efficient, why do you think it is not more commonly implemented? Why is a proper understanding of risks faced by smallholder farmers?
What are the possibilities, advantages, and disadvantages of export promotion in developing nations with reference to specific types of commodities?
Briefly summarize the range of commercial policies available to developing countries, and explain why some of these policies might be adopted.
Manufactures now account for a majority of exports. What factors have limited the benefits that developing countries receive from this progress?
Traditional free-trade theory is basically a static theory of international exchange leading to certain. Explain the dynamic elements that are also important.
Traditional free-trade theories are based on six crucial assumptions, which may or may not be valid for developing nations?
Under what conditions might the removal of all tariffs and other impediments to trade work to the best advantage of developing countries? Explain.
Briefly summarize the major conclusions of the traditional theory of free trade with regard to its theoretical effects on world and domestic efficiency.
Briefly explain what is meant by each of these concepts as it relates to the theory of international trade.
How can goods and services provided by nongovernmental organizations be considered in this framework?
Discuss the components of the original Washington Consensus. What do you think was most lacking from this framework?