I’m stuck on a Political Science question and need an explanation.
I will provide credentials to textbook please use chapter 26 to answer following questions
Chapter 26: Poverty, development, and hunger
- What is meant by ‘sustainable development’?
- Define ‘embedded liberalism’.
- What is ‘structural adjustment’ and what are the main institutions that enforce it?
- What is the difference between the ‘Washington Consensus’ and the ‘post-Washington Consensus’?
- List three critiques of the UN’s claim to have successfully reduced poverty through the Millennium Development Goals program.
- How did Thomas Robert Malthus explain hunger?
- How does Amartya Sen explain hunger?
- Briefly define the neoliberal economic and political philosophy that came to dominate global development thinking following the cold war.
- Outline the key differences between orthodox and alternative approaches to poverty, development, and hunger. Which approach do you find more compelling and why? Defend your answer by offering empirical examples.
- Define the ‘trickle-down’ assumption. Is this assumption valid? Support your answer by offering empirical examples from the history of global development.
- What is the relationship between democracy and development?