One example of the exploitative redesign of colonized economies in the XIX century is... - ANS - Angola, Ethiopia, and Indonesia becoming producers of coffee, most consumed in Europe
- Ghana and the Ivory Coast becoming producers of cocoa, with chocolate processed in the Western World
- T...
One example of the exploitative redesign of colonized economies in the XIX century is... - ANS
- Angola, Ethiopia, and Indonesia becoming producers of coffee, most consumed in Europe
- Ghana and the Ivory Coast becoming producers of cocoa, with chocolate processed in the
Western World
- The ban imposed by the British Empire on spinning wheels in India
The course book's Chapter 3 mentions the difficulty in addressing human needs in an equitable
way. This is because several questions need to be resolved. One such question is: - ANS -
How to distinguish between basic and non-basic needs
- Decide which non-basic needs should be disregarded
- Decide which basic needs will be satisfied first
Amartia Sen, an economics Nobel-prize awardee went beyond the basic needs approach by
proposing that: - ANS - Two types of freedom (freedom from and freedom of) are
necessary for people to develop their full capabilities as human beings
- A meaningful human life can be lived only if a person is free from wants (and therefore have
their needs met) and has freedom of choice
- Satisfaction of basic needs is an essential but insufficient condition to relieve people from
poverty
Which of the following fact-describing sentences do you agree with? - ANS - Historically,
humans have learned to make wealth much faster than they have learned to distribute wealth
- In some areas of developing countries, a delayed industrialization process is still observed
- Emigration from rural areas to cities is a common feature of a transition from industrialization
One positive and one negative consequence of the industrial revolution are respectively: - ANS
1. Increase in productive efficiency AND
2. Transition from sustenance (or survival) economy to a wage-based labor economy
The course book's Chapter 3 mentions four forces (groups, ideologies, and social institutions)
behind the resistance to unfair social structures resulting from industrialization. They are: - ANS
The ILO, Marxism, some governments, and the Catholic Church
The concern for social development as a necessity alongside environmental and economic
development was a consequence of the recognition that besides environmental protection and
, the elimination of extreme poverty, the achieving the following was also necessary: - ANS -
Increase social cohesion and respect for cultural heritage
- Provide equal access to health care and education
- Increase fairness of wealth distribution inside a nation and among nations
According to Jared Diamond, in his five-point possible sets of factors contributing to
environmental collapse, four may or may not be present, whereas a fifth always is. The four that
may or may not be present are: - ANS Climate change, environmental damage, hostile
neighbors, friendly trade partners
According to Jared Diamond, the sustainable occupation of the New Guinea Highlands by
humans for tens of thousands of years is an example of: - ANS A bottom-up approach to
avoid collapse
According to Jared Diamond, Japan's actions to avoid collapse in the Tokugawa era (early
1600s to mid-1800s) an example of: - ANS Top-down approach to avoid collapse
In Jared Diamond's five-point possible sets of factors contributing to environmental collapse,
one is always present according to him. That one is: - ANS A society's response to its
environmental problems
What are the components of the Human Development Index (HDI)? - ANS Per capita GDP,
life expectancy at birth, and expected level educational attainment
Allied representatives had envisioned and planned for a prosperous recovery from the ravages
of World War II in the July 1944 Bretton Woods Conference. They succeeded in avoiding the
perils that followed World War I, but despite the huge technological progress and economic
growth in the Western World, in 1980 the following was still observed: - ANS - Average life
expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa was 45 years old
- 25 million children under five years old died every year from easily curable diseases such as
diarrhea
- 800 million people (almost one fifth of the World's population) were so poor that they were
unable to secure the basic necessities of life for themselves
The time, space, and interest matrix introduced by the Limits to Growth team in 1972: - ANS
- Plots human interests against two dimensions (space and time)
- Illustrates that human focus is usually on here today rather than there tomorrow
- Illustrates that most humans occupy a small quadrant
The widely accepted definition for sustainable development ("...seeks to meet the needs and
aspirations of the present without compromising the ability to meet those of the future...") was a
result of: - ANS The United Nations' World Commission on Environment and Development
(WCED) 1987 Bruntland Report
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