Development Terms
Economics
Social Problems
Global Context
Theories & Ideologies
100
Local and macro levels of development are also referred to as top-down and bottom-up development. Local-level is considered this type of development.
What is bottom-up development?
100
These are three major economic bodies that act as important components of the UN system.
What are the World Bank, IMF (International Monetary Fund), and WTO (World Trade Organization)?
100
These are five global social problems that international social workers are likely to encounter.
What are poverty, the plight of children, the plight of women, conflict, natural disasters and ecological degradation, uneven development of nations, uneven impact of global problems, displacement and forced migration, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic?
100
This organization, established in 1863, is considered the oldest and most well-known INGO.
What is the Red Cross?
100
Free market, privatization, and minimal government spending characterize this development theory.
What is neo-liberalism?
200
This type of development is controlled or strongly influenced by outside players and is exhibited in colonialism and the World Bank's programs
What is imposed development?
200
Linear-stages theory, structural-change models, international-dependency revolution, neoclassical counterrevolution, and new growth theory are all theories of this.
What is economic development?
200
While some believe donor countries give aid out of moral or humanitarian desires, Todaro suggests that they primarily give aid for this reason.
What is self-interest (political, strategic, or economic self-interest)?
200
These are four dimensions of the global context for international development.
What are social problems, organizational, ideological, and policy?
200
This ideology purports that nations are better off when they focus on domestic issues and avoid international entanglements.
What is isolationism?
300
This type of development focuses on the individuals-families-communities sector of society.
What is local-level development?
300
The oil crisis in the 1970's led to the development of these.
What are structural adjustment policies?
300
Persistent poverty in the midst of economic affluence is an example of this kind of development.
What is distorted development?
300
These control 70% of world trade, domestic areas of production, distribute and sell many goods from developing countries and are concentrated in a few Western countries (44% in the US).
What are TNCs or MNCs?
300
Historically, International Social Work has been committed to this ideology.
What is cosmopolitanism?
400
Midgley defines this type of development as a process of promoting people's welfare in conjunction with a dynamic process of economic development.
What is human or social development?
400
Structural adjustment policies, when found ineffective, were replaced with this strategy.
What is poverty reduction?
400
This is the percentage of the world's children who are significantly affected by poverty, conflict, or the AIDS epidemic.
What is 50%?
400
In order to accurately teach about and correct inequality, international social workers should have a good understanding of these relations.
What are international or global power relations?
400
Whereas cosmopolitanism promotes collaboration, unipolarism advocates for the use of this tactic:
What is unilateral power?
500
This is "the network of institutions through which groups in society represent themselves - both to each other and to the state."
What is civil society?
500
This crisis caused politicians and economists to see the downfall of laissez-faire economic policy.
What is the Great Depression?
500
This term refers to the fact that women are often more vulnerable in situations of poverty than men.
What is the "feminization of poverty"?
500
These six categories of organizations make up the global organizational context, or the international community.
What are national governments, intergovernmental agencies (regional associations), the UN system, transnational/multinational corporations, INGOs, and global civil society?
500
Environmental regulations, grassroots change, and "green" modernization are characteristic of this theory of development.
What is sustainable development?
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