Final Exam Review Flashcards
What characterizes a “developing country”?
- Low standard of living
- Low per capita income
- Low level of health and nutrition
- Low level of education
- Poverty
- Income inequality
- Loss of freedom and social justice
What is development economics?
The study of how economies are transformed from stagnation to growth, from low-income to high-income status, and how they overcame problems of absolute poverty.
What are social systems?
Social systems represent the interdependent relationships between economic and non-economic factors.
Non-economic factors include…
- Attitudes
- Structures
- Religion and culture
- Land tenure
- Authority and integrity of government
- Flexibility/rigidity of economic and social classes.
What is income per capita?
Total gross national income of a country divided by its total population.
What is gross national income (GNI)?
The total domestic and foreign output claimed by residents of a country.
What is the pseudo-formula for GNI?
GNI = gross domestic product (GDP) + factor incomes accruing to residents from abroad - the income earned in the domestic economy accruing to persons abroad.
How was economic development redefined in the 1970s?
In terms of the reduction or elimination of poverty, inequality, and unemployment within the context of a growing economy.
Define Amartya Sen’s “Capability” approach.
The “capability to function” is what really matters for status as a poor or non-poor person.
Concentrates on the actual capability of persons to achieve their well-being rather than on their mere right or freedom to do so.
Sen’s approach shows us we cannot simply look at the real income levels or the levels of consumption to measure well-being.
What are “functionings” in Sen’s approach?
Consist of “beings and doings”.
Examples include being healthy, having a good job, being safe, being happy, having self-respect, etc.
What are “capabilities” in Sen’s approach?
The alternative combinations of functionings that are feasible for a person to achieve.
Capabilities denote a person’s opportunity and ability to generate valuable outcomes, taking into account relevant personal characteristics and external factors.
True or False?
Average level of happiness increases as a country’s average income increases, however this relationship only holds up to an average income of roughly $10-20k per capita.
True
What are the seven factors that affect happiness?
- Family
- Financial situation
- Work
- Community and friends
- Health
- Personal freedom
- Personal values
What are the three core values of development?
Sustenance: the ability to meets the needs for basic goods and services, such as food, clothing, and shelter.
Self-Esteem: a sense of worth and self-respect.
Freedom from servitude: the ability to choose.
What are the three objectives of development?
- To increase the availability and widen the distribution of basic life-sustaining goods such as food, shelter, health, and protection.
- To raise levels of living, including higher incomes, more jobs, better education, greater attention to cultural and human values, and individual and national self-esteem.
- To expand the range of economic and social choices by freeing them from servitude and dependence.
What is the most used method in defining the developing world?
Per capita income
What are the four World Bank classifications for countries?
Low-income countries (LICs)
Lower-middle-income countries (LMCs)
Upper-middle-income countries (UMCs)
High income countries (HICs)
What are newly industrializing countries (NICs)?
UMCs that have achieved relatively advanced manufacturing sectors.
What is gross domestic product (GDP)?
Measures the total value for final use of output produced by an economy, by both residents and non-residents.
What is Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)?
The number of units of a foreign country’s currency required to purchase the identical quantity of goods and services in the local developing country market as $1 would buy in the United States.
What are the most commonly used indicators of health?
The under-5 mortality rate plus the rate of malnutrition and life expectancy.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
An index measuring national socioeconomic development based on combining measures of education, health, and wealth.
How do you calculate New Human Development Index (NHDI)?
- Creating the three “dimension indices” includes health, education, and income indices.
- Aggregating the resulting indices to calculate NHDI.
What are the 10 major areas of the developing world?
- Lower levels of living and productivity
- Lower levels of Human Capital
- Higher levels of Inequality and Absolute Poverty
- Higher population growth rates
- Greater social fractionalization
- Larger rural populations but rapid rural-to-urban migration.
- Lower levels of industrialization and manufactured exports
- Adverse geography
- Underdeveloped markets
- Lingering colonial impacts and unequal international relations.