The questions will focus on your understanding of processes of global social change. Your answers should be essays of 150 words each.
1. What are the global benefits of improving women's living conditions and status around the world?
2. What are the main elements of the sustainability project? How does it differ from the globalization project and the development project?
3. What are the main counter-movements to the globalization project?
4. How and why is agriculture central to the sustainability project?
5. What crises is the development project facing at the beginning of the 21st century? Briefly explain their causes.
6. What are TNCs? How do their roles differ in the globalization and sustainability projects?
7. How does climate change affect development?
8. Which one do you think is going to be the dominant country of the future: China, India, or Brazil? Why?
9. Describe the four practices of the globalization project (outsourcing, displacement, informalization, recolonization). Who benefits from them? Who is disadvantaged?
10. What are the various measures suggested or implemented to adapt to climate change and its consequences?
11. What are the four protocols of the WTO and their consequences for Third-World countries?
12. What obstacles and challenges does Africa face on its road to development?