Chapter 6: hunger, Poverty, economic development

Question 1

poverty and starvation not as _____ related as once thought

Answer 1

over-population

Question 2

Why did farmers starve after disaster in Bangladesh?

Answer 2

They sold all their food but couldn’t afford to buy any.

Question 3

Why did hunter-gatherers become agriculturalists?

Answer 3

abundant food produced abundant people. hunting-gathering across vaster expanses no longer provided. best to domesticate.

Question 4

Ratio of food cost to income is lowest in the world in -

Answer 4

USA

Question 5

what is the “NEOCALORIC REVOLUTION”?

Answer 5

In the USA, the amount of calories required to grow food with more calories went down - between 1945 - 1970

Question 6

Green Revolution produced HYV

Answer 6

high-yield varieties

Question 7

Green Revolution PART 2 =

Answer 7

genetics

Question 8

What is unique about Brazil and starvation?

Answer 8

Some of them claim to be sick and seek medicine instead of just eating.

Question 9

What’s the informal economy?

Answer 9

drugs / sex / all those grey-area thang

Question 10

Which President’s speech defined the coming eras?

Answer 10

Harry S. Truman

Question 11

Pro-development people never mention -

Answer 11

wealth has come with an equal increase in poverty / and inequality has doubled

Question 12

3 features of development that need to be examined

Answer 12

1) the use of “income” or “GNP” 2) how “development” is Western ideology 3) great imbalances of power achieved through appeals to development