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Unit 4: Global challenges
Quick questions on Development as a global ethical issue: VCE Politics
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What is the debate over how to pursue development?Show answer
The central ethical debate is over the best path to development and who should drive it.
What is the actors involved?Show answer
Many actors respond to underdevelopment. States provide bilateral aid and trade access. Intergovernmental organisations such as the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund set goals, lend and advise. China has become a major source of development finance through the Belt and Road Initiative, offering an alternative to Western institutions.
What are effectiveness of responses?Show answer
Responses have achieved a great deal and left much undone. Extreme poverty has fallen dramatically over recent decades, and the Sustainable Development Goals have focused global attention and coordinated effort. Yet progress is uneven, many goals are off track, debt burdens have grown, and shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic and conflict have reversed gains in the poorest states. Effectiveness is therefore best judged as significant but incomplete and fragile.
What is q1?Show answer
Identify two ways development can be measured. [4 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain the debate over aid versus trade in pursuing development. [6 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Evaluate the effectiveness of global responses to underdevelopment. [10 marks]
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