GREAT LAND COLLEGE

SCHOOL OF POST GRADUATE STUDIES

DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT
MANAGEMENT

Poverty, Governance and Development (DMGT 625) Assignment (20%)

 Your answer should be clear, neat and to the point
 Do it individually
 The teacher is not responsible for any failure to respect the submission date and dishonesty
 Support your answer with literatures, data and statistics.
 Working together is encourageable but copying from each other is strictly forbidden.
 Submission date : on the final exam date
Set by: Dr. Gemechu Mulatu Kerorsa
Assistant Professor of Economics
E-mail: mulatugemechu02@gmail.com or geme.chu@yahoo.com
Discuss the following questions
1. On what basis do we determine whether or not people are poor? What are the reasons for
it? How might these determinations be relevant to views about specific policy responses
discussed in the course?
2. A country is poor because it is poor. What does it mean? Discuss
3. Poverty problems mostly attack women and children than men. Women and children
experience the harshest deprivation. Why? Discuss.
4. Poverty is more deep rooted in rural areas than urban areas. Why are rural people poor?
5. Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” of the marketplace leads self-interested buyers and sellers
in a market to maximize the total benefit that society can derive from a market. But
market failures can still happen. Discuss the major the sources of market failure. When
there is market failure, then the government steps in. What are the roles of the
government in mixed economy?
6. What is poverty trap? Exemplify and discuss
7. Draw and explain the vicious circle of poverty (use both the demand side and supply
side)
8. Discuss briefly areas which require policy interventions from governments of developing
countries in order to reduce poverty and inequality.
9. Cite at least eight (8) basic characteristics of good governance. Explain each briefly.
10. Briefly state the difference between development and underdevelopment of a contry.
11. Outline the three (3) core values of development according to Denis Goulet
12. What is the difference between economic growth and economic development?
13. According to Professor Goulet (1971), development has three core values, Discuss
14. Discuss the major obstacles to economic development
15. Discuss diverse Structure and Common Characteristics of Developing Countries.
Support your answer with data and statistics.
16. Young females receive considerably less education than young males in Ethiopia. Why?
Discuss.
17. With the help of foreign aid, Ethiopia like many African countries has been designing
and implementing programs or projects in almost all sectors with the aim of improving
economic and social conditions. For instance, in the agricultural sector, a number of aid
financed development projects and programs have been initiated and executed as part of
agricultural and rural development strategies. Most of these projects or programs have
been aimed at the provision of agricultural inputs and establishing and improving
agricultural and rural infrastructures, like rural roads, storage facilities, water supply and
agricultural resource conservation and management. Why do countries provide foreign
aid? Why developing countries recipients accept foreign aid? Judging from the number of
positive and negative effects of foreign aid, the negatives seem to outweigh the positives.
Discuss advantages and disadvantage of foreign aid.
18. Discuss sustainable development goals
19. Discuss the direction of causality between governance and economic growth
20. Discuss some of the causes and consequences of dependency and policy
recommendations for minimizing dependency