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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
understanding across chapters and how specific cases illuminate general, or global, trends
Chapter 5. Instituting the Globalization Project.
1. What does it mean to distinguish between globalization and the ‘globalization project’?
2. The austere consequences of structural adjustment, and their implications for women in
particular, raise questions about the durability of development. What kind of questions?
3. What kind of assumptions and power relationships are in play in the process of
liberalization, and how do they politicize development?
4. How does the concept of ‘comparative advantage’ distinguish the globalization project
from the development project? What are its social and ecological implications?
5. Why did the World Bank’s rename its development strategy as ‘globalization with a
human face,’ and how, why, and with what effect has the ‘civil society revolution’ altered
the way in which development is practised?
6. What institutional function has the World Trade Organization (WTO) served in
prosecuting global development – especially with regard to sovereignty, security, rights,
and the social contract?
7. The solution to the debt crisis was to shift responsibility onto individual countries, and to
their most vulnerable citizens. Why? What power relations and economic assumptions
enabled this political choice and social outcome? In what terms did citizens respond?
