Quiz 2

Question 1

What are some types of poverty traps?

Answer 1

Nutrition based, market access, savings, health

Question 2

What are the criteria for a poverty trap?

Answer 2

(1) You have an S-shaped curve that intersects the 45-degree line at least three times creating at least two stable and at least one unstable steady states and
(2) your curve intersects the 45-degree line at least once from below

Question 3

What do we mean when we say herd immunity?

Answer 3

Herd immunity refers to the effect of positive externalities on immunizing populations from disease, thereby making it necessary to only immunize a critical percentage of a population, or, above some threshold of immunity a disease stops spreading

Question 4

Malaria is caused by

Answer 4

A parasite