Development  Ch:1 

DEVELOPMENTAL GOALS OF DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF PERSONS CAN BE DIFFERENT DISCUSS

•  Landless rural labourers
•  Prosperous farmers from Punjab Farmers who depend only on rain for growing crops
• A rural woman from a land owning family 

• Urban unemployed youth 
• A boy from a rich urban family 
• A girl from a rich urban family 
• An adivasi from Narmada valley

1. What is development?
2. Different persons can have different developmental goals, Discuss
3. What may be development for one may not be development for the other. It may even be destructive for the other, Discuss
4.  For development, people look at a mix of goals
5. Give some examples where factors other than income are important aspects of our lives.
6. Money in your pocket cannot buy all the goods and services that you may need to live well. 
7. What is average income? What is another name of average income?
8. In World Development Reports, brought out by the World Bank, What criterion is used in classifying countries. Discuss.
9. Define -
10. Infant Mortality Rate (or IMR) indicates the number of children that die before the age of one year as a proportion of 1000 live children born in that particular year. 
11. Literacy Rate measures the proportion of literate population in the 7-and-above age group. 
12. Net Attendance Ratio is the total number of children of age group 14 and 15 years attending school as a percentage of total number of children in the same age group.
13. What is the main criterion used by the World Bank in classifying different countries? What are the limitations of this criterion, if any? 
14. In what respects is the criterion used by the UNDP for measuring development different from the one used by the World Bank? 
15.  Why do we use averages? Are there any limitations to their use? Illustrate with your own examples related to development. 
16. Kerala, with lower per capita income has a better human development ranking than Haryana. Hence, per capita income is not a useful criterion at all and should not be used to compare states. Do you agree? Discuss.
17.  Why is the issue of sustainability important for development? 
18. “The Earth has enough resources to meet the needs of all but not enough to satisfy the greed of even one person”. How is this statement relevant to the disscusion of development? Discuss. 
19. List a few examples of environmental degradation that you may have observed around you. 
20. What is BMI ? What is  HDI ? What are its 3 perimeters?
21. What is sustainable development?