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Wolaita Sodo University requires 4th year economics students to form groups of up to 6 for a rural development assignment due one week before final exams. Students must select 5 questions from a provided list and submit their work, which counts for 30% of their grade. The assignment covers various topics related to rural development, including definitions, measures, theories, and strategies relevant to the Ethiopian context.

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Wolaita Sodo University requires 4th year economics students to form groups of up to 6 for a rural development assignment due one week before final exams. Students must select 5 questions from a provided list and submit their work, which counts for 30% of their grade. The assignment covers various topics related to rural development, including definitions, measures, theories, and strategies relevant to the Ethiopian context.

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Wolaita Sodo University Dawuro Tarcha Campus

College of Business and Economics


Department of Economics
Rural Development for Economics 4th year GROUP Assignment
Summation Date One week before final Exam date.
Direction
 Make a group up to 6 students

 The submission timeline must be respected

 The maximum expected mark will be 30 %.

 Select only1 5 questions from the given for assignment purpose but carefully read
and do the remaining parts for the general knowledge.

Questions

1. Define development in your own words:


a. as a change that is desired
b. as development of human beings not things
c. as a process of social learning
d. in terms of sustainable development
2. Discuss the values that are accepted by all societies and cultures, and by internalizing
these values. Describe them briefly using examples.
3. Define rural development by a single sentence and list and discuss the components of
rural development
4. Describe the meaning of rural development explained as phenomena, strategy, and
discipline in the context of Ethiopian economy and the regional context in particular.
5. Identify the objective of rural development in relation to any specific rural development
activities in your locality.
6. Discuss GNP per capita measure of rural development and its limitations
7. What are the advantages of Per capita Consumption Expenditure measure of rural
development as compared to GNP Per capita Income?
8. The shift in measuring rural development from per capita income/expenditure to Physical
Quality of Life Index or Human Development Index can be considered as a "paradigm
shift". Discuss why or why not.
9. What are the initial components of HDI and what adjustments are made later?
10. How can Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient be used to measure income distribution and
inequality?
11. Discuss the dimensions of poverty as indicated by World Bank
12. Explain the determinants of poverty
13. Define the terms: absolute poverty, relative poverty, and subjective poverty.
14. Shortly explain the Head Count Index, Poverty Gap Index, and Poverty Severity Index.
15. Discuss the components of Human Poverty Index
16. Discuss the ideas of 'Transfers' and 'Stages' in the Modernization Theory of development.
17. Explain the limitations of Modernization Theory when used in developing countries.
18. According to Dependency Theory, what are the relationships of developing and
developed countries?
19. List the indivisibilities cited by Big Push Theory and elaborate the central idea of
development of the theory
20. What is the process of transforming the traditional sector to modern sector as proposed by
Lewis' Surplus Labour Theory?
21. What are the limitations of Surplus Labour Theory?
22. From the two approaches of rural development, Unimodal and Bimodal, which one do
you think is appropriate to Ethiopia? Why?
23. Discuss the objectives of agricultural development
24. Why is not the automatic self-stabilization approach inadequate to solve the problem of
inequality according to Gunnar Myrda1's Thesis of 'Spread and Backwash Effects'?
25. What is the central development problem of developing countries, according to Bocke's
Social dualism?
26. Discuss the different strategies of rural development. Which one do you think is/are more
preferable to Ethiopia? Justify
27. State the meaning of Green Revolution. Explain shortly it advantages and disadvantages
in a developing country
28. What are the socio-economic and environmental impacts of Green Revolution?
29. List and elaborate the mechanisms by which Community Development Program is
attained
30. State the achievements and failures of Community Development Program
31. Discuss the meaning and objectives of Integrated Rural Development
32. Elaborate the components of Integrated Rural Development
33. How can Integrated Rural Development be implemented?
34. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of Integrated Rural Development

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