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Assignments For Development Economics I

This document outlines three assignments for a development economics course. The first assignment asks students to summarize definitions of development from a textbook, discuss other potential dimensions of development, and analyze common problems faced by less developed countries. The second assignment requires distinguishing between low living levels and low incomes, and giving examples. The third assignment involves explaining theories of development, defining and comparing measures of poverty, and discussing Kuznets's inverted-U hypothesis for developing countries. Students are asked to submit the completed assignments as a single Word file by June 20, 2021 through a Dropbox link provided.

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Assignments For Development Economics I

This document outlines three assignments for a development economics course. The first assignment asks students to summarize definitions of development from a textbook, discuss other potential dimensions of development, and analyze common problems faced by less developed countries. The second assignment requires distinguishing between low living levels and low incomes, and giving examples. The third assignment involves explaining theories of development, defining and comparing measures of poverty, and discussing Kuznets's inverted-U hypothesis for developing countries. Students are asked to submit the completed assignments as a single Word file by June 20, 2021 through a Dropbox link provided.

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DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS -I

Please complete the assignments and submit them jointly in a single MS Word
file within June 20, 2021. You are requested to submit them in the Dropbox
https://www.dropbox.com/request/uIaPARDD4iFeSmWTh8iS

2nd Assignment

1. Briefly describe the various definitions of the term development encountered


in the Chapter 1 of Economic Development written by Todaro & Smith. What
are the strengths and weaknesses of each approach? Do you think that there
are other dimensions of development not mentioned in the text? If so,
describe them. If not, explain why you believe that the text description of
development is adequate.
2. For all of their diversity, many less developed countries are linked by a range
of common problems. What are these problems? Which do you think are the
most important? Why?
3. Explain the distinction between low levels of living and low per capita
incomes. Can low levels of living exist simultaneously with high levels of per
capita income? Explain and give some examples.

3rd Assignment

1. Explain the essential distinctions among the stages-of-growth theory of


development, the structural-change models of Lewis and Chenery, and the
theory of international dependence in both its neo-Marxist and false-
paradigm conceptualizations. Which model do you think provides the best
explanation of the situation in most developing nations? Explain your
answer.
2. What is meant by absolute poverty? What measures of income poverty are
favored by development economists? How do income poverty measures differ
from the UNDP’s Multidimensional Poverty Index? Why should we be
concerned with the measurement of poverty in developing nations?
3. Describe Kuznets’s inverted-U hypothesis. Discuss the conceptual merits
and limitations of this hypothesis for contemporary developing countries.

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