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What are the most important voluntary failures that can inhibit NGOs from realizing their comparative advantages in development activities?
Why is development participation not used more often, despite its potentially decisive role in ensuring the success of development policies?
What features of the political process make effective development policymaking so difficult?
Distinguish between market failure and government failure. Does rent-seeking behavior occur only as a result of government failure? Explain your answer?
Most development economists now seem to agree that the level and rate of growth of GNI. What is the essence of their argument? Give some examples.
Explain your answer? What is meant by absolute poverty? What measures of income poverty are favored by development economists?
Describe Kuznets's inverted-U hypothesis. Discuss the conceptual merits and limitations of this hypothesis for contemporary developing countries.
What does this tell us about the importance of the character of a nation's growth process and about its institutional structure?
What is the relationship between a Lorenz curve and a Gini coefficient? How Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients can be used as summary measures of equality?
Summarize the arguments both for and against the presumed conflict of objectives, and state and explain your own view.
How might inequality lead to faster growth or development? How might it lead to slower growth or development?
Outline the range of major policy options for a developing country to alter and modify its size distribution of national income.
What has been the major factor contributing to rapid developing country population growth since the Second World War? Explain your answer.
Is the dependency burden higher or lower in developing countries? Why? Explain the notion of the hidden momentum of population growth.
Describe briefly the theory of the demographic transition. At what stage in this transition do most developing countries seem to be? Explain your answer?
List and briefly describe the principal causes of high population growth in developing countries and the major consequences?
Outline and comment briefly on some of the arguments against the idea that population growth is a serious problem in developing nations?
What aspects of population policy alternatives- including their strengths and weaknesses-are illustrated by the cases of China and India?
Why might the problem of rapid urbanization be a more significant population policy issue than curtailing population growth rates over the next two decades?
Describe briefly the essential assumptions and major features of the Todaro model of rural-urban migration.
What is meant by the expression getting prices right? What condition will eliminating factor price distortion generate substantial new employment opportunities?
Distinguish between the urban formal and informal sectors, and discuss both the positive and the negative aspects of the informal urban labor market.
What would the urban traditional sector daily income have to be to induce no net rural-urban migration? If wages in all sectors are inflexible.
Now explain the economic benefits of concentration of economic activity in cities. How are various costs of doing business likely to be affected?
Can you think of an example of O-ring production from everyday life? Do you think your example is a good metaphor for development problems?