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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 6. The Globalization Project in Practice.
1. What is outsourcing’s role in the construction of the ‘global division of labor,’ and the
reconstruction of development?
2. What does Afro-Caribbean women preference for office work over higher-paying
plantation work tell us about the construction of feminized jobs in the global economy?
Are call centers indicators of development in the global South?
3. What forms does ‘displacement’ take, and how does displacement fit in the pursuit of
development under the globalization project?
4. What is ‘informalization,’ and how and why has the development establishment revalued
the informal sector as a site of ‘empowerment’?
5. Why is there a scramble for Africa, and what can we learn from it about the current
dynamics of the globalization project?
6. How did the World Bank and IMF’s focus on poverty reduction strategies further
entrench the globalization project?
7. In what ways does the discourse of development presented by International Financial
Institutions (IFIs) contradict the realities of development? How and why have civil
society contested the development policies of IFIs? How have IFIs attempted to regain
legitimacy of development, both discursively and in policy?
8. What are some examples of ‘global re-colonization’? In what ways do these trends
contradict the premises of the globalization project?

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