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McMichael, Development and Social Change 5e – Instructor Materials
Development and Social Change Test Bank
What follows are examples of questions for instructors to pose to students to help them make
the connections necessary to following the text, and its interpretation of the world of
development. Five questions for each chapter will focus on the chapter’s content, cumulative
Chapter 3. The Development Project. International Framework.
1. The ‘development project’ focused on national economic growth, but it had definite
international dimensions. What were they, and how did they reinforce or modify
development processes?
2. In what ways did the Bretton Woods system institutionalize development as an
international project? And how did Cold War rivalry and Third World demands
contribute?
3. Discuss whether and to what extent, and in what sense, the Newly-Industrializing
Countries (NICs) were showcases of the development project.
4. How did the operation of the food aid regime contribute to the development project? And
in what ways did it transform it?
5. What were some of the social, political, dietary and ecological consequences of
technology transfer in the Green Revolution? What assumptions of the development
project did it embody?
