1. Explain
Leathers and Foster’s economic argument that a policy aimed at reducing
over-consumption in the
2. What are distortionary farm subsidies, and why is the World Trade Organization against them? Explain.
3. What is Urban Bias? Explain and give examples of implicit subsidies to consumers in developing countries.
4. How
did administered pricing of wheat in
5. How does an overvalued domestic currency impact farmers in developing countries? Explain.
6. What are Leathers and Foster’s arguments against government subsidized farm mechanization in developing countries? Explain.
7. What
are Leathers and Foster’s arguments against government subsidized fertilizer? How
about in
8. What is microcredit, and how does it work? Explain and give an example.
9. What are the arguments for governments to spend money improving rural roads and agricultural infrastructure? Explain.
10. Why should governments should support agricultural research and extension? Explain.
11. What is Food Sovereignty and why are developing nations upset at developed nations over this issue? Explain.
12. From the video, summarize Vandanna Shiva’s position on the responsibility of the World Bank, the IMF, and the WTO on food security in the developing world. Explain.
13. Compare and contrast the Establishment and Anti-establishment views on what the world will be like 50 years from now.
14. What are the areas of policy that can be agreed on by both the Establishment and Antiestablishment views?
15. Compare the
situation of
16. Compare the poverty trap and the fiscal trap as reasons why countries fail to thrive.
17. Compare governance failures and cultural barriers as reasons why countries fail to thrive.
18. In “The End of Poverty”, what are the Big 5 development programs that can help move poor countries out of poverty? Explain.
19. In “The End of Poverty”, what is Jeffrey Sachs’ explanation for why underdeveloped nations had slow economic growth in the last 200 years compared to wealthy nations?
20. Summarize
the message of the video on hunger in
21. In the new story on the New Face of Hunger, what are three main factors given to explain the increase in the global price of basic foods? Explain.
22. List 4 United Nations Organizations that impact world hunger, and indicate briefly what they do.
23. What are the 4 priorities of the World Food Program? Explain.
24. What are the ways UNICEF focuses on child protection? Explain.
25. What 2
sets of facts are used to argue that the
26. List 4 NGOs that work on Policy, and indicate briefly what the focus of each is.
27. List 4 NGOs that work to alleviate hunger, and indicate briefly what they do.
28. What are Food First’s 5 principles concerning ending hunger? Explain.
29. How does aid from Heifer International work? How is the gift perpetuated? Explain.
30. In the Peace Corps video, which segment was most compelling, and why?