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'High-yielding' varieties of staple crops ________.

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a. allow farmers to buy seeds on a one-time basis

b. are necessary to feed the world

c. perform well under most conditions, and are, therefore, indispensable to resource-poor farmers

d. are largely unavailable in the developing world

e. are outperformed by traditional varieties under the prevailing conditions of most resource-poor farmers

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Which of the following is NOT true regarding the distribution of income?

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a. It is measured by comparing the incomes of different strata of society.

b. It acts as a constraint on development.

c. It is very unequal in most developing countries.

d. It is measured by the Gini coefficient.

e. It is not very important since growth at the top 'trickles down' to the poor.

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Many rural development programs operate under the oversimplified basic assumption that ________.

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a. rural livelihoods are highly diverse

b. land access is often hierarchical

c. the 'rural poor' are all 'small farmers'

d. the poorest of the poor are usually landless

e. 'sharecropping' is common practice

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The Washington Consensus ________.

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a. is an informal agreement to use structural adjustment policies to stabilize foreign currencies

b. is a synonym for neo-conservative orthodoxy

c. is a consensus of conservative orthodoxy resulting from the Bretton Woods Conference

d. became the order of the day with the asymmetrical application of neoliberal structural adjustment

e. includes all nations in agreement with the Washington political elite

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11) High Yeilding varieties of staple crops are "important to feed the world". They are crops like wheat and rice, which are widely eaten all around the world.

12) "E" it is not very important because it trickles down from top to bottom. Most of the places it doesn't that is why we have so much income inequality. The Rich remain rich and poor become poorer.

13) "B" land access is often hierarchical. In the rural area, the rich generally have access to land and poor doesn't.

14) "A" Washington consensus is an informal agreement to use structural adjustment policies to stabilize the foreign currency. It includes the institutions like IMF, World Bank etc.