Women as a Constituency in Development

Question 1

Development

Answer 1

improving social welfare through economic social change

planned government intervention

international actors (UN, WHO, USAID)

Question 2

Economic Development

Answer 2

a sustainable increase in living standards such as: increased per capita income, better education and health & environmental protection

Question 3

Social Development

Answer 3

aims to transform beneficiaries into citizens by fostering an enabling, accessible, responsive, and accountable state

Question 4

What are some examples of projects to improve nation-states that are not considered sufficiently advanced?

Answer 4

digging wells, community health clinics

Question 5

What are 3 theories of development according to Ritzer?

Answer 5

Modernization, Dependency, World Systems

Question 6

Modernization Theory

Answer 6

If post-colonial/developing countries follow the same steps as developed countries (industrialization, urbanization, investment in education and infrastructure, transition to capitalist economies and democratic politics), they will prosper and raise the standard of living

Question 7

Dependency Theory

Answer 7

Development = post-colonial nations continue to depend on “first world” nations through aid and trade, creating a cycle

Question 8

World-Systems Theory

Answer 8

world divided into “core” which exploits the “periphery” with the semi-periphery acting as a bridge

Question 9

How have women become central to development in the Third World?

Answer 9

Failures to see progress in the developing world under older models

Rise of the women’s movement around the world

Women as agricultural producers

Focus on population control and fertility

women in development approaches adopted

Question 10

According to Kabeer, what are two paradigms for development?

Answer 10

Welfare Model & Efficiency Model

Question 11

Welfare Model

Answer 11

Basic needs, poverty alleviation, women as passive receivers of aid

Question 12

Efficiency Model

Answer 12

women as economic agents, active participants in the development process

Question 13

United Nations

Answer 13

cooperation in international law, security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace

Question 14

What year was the UN established?

Answer 14

1945

Question 15

How many member states does the UN have?

Answer 15

193

Question 16

What are the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council?

Answer 16

China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom & The United States

Question 17

UN Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 17

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.