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Development and Inequality

Final Exam (60%)

Learning Outcomes being assessed:

LO1. Introduce ideas and theories of inequality and development in the

global context.

LO2. Use these ideas to explain why people living in selected regions of the

world continue to be severely disadvantaged.

LO3. Introduce topics related to the themes of ethnicity, gender and class to show the

many ways in which disadvantage may be manifested.

Exam Instructions:

• The test will be posted on Stream on Monday 27 January at 8:00am NZDST (NZ Daylight Saving Time)

• You will have until Sunday 2 February at 11:55 pm NZDST to complete and upload the exam. The dropbox will close after 11:55pm.

• Each question/response must be in a separate word document. Each word document should include: your name and student number, the question you are responding to,

and your response. The file name must include your last name and the question

number. You will upload four separate responses/word documents or PDFs to Stream.

Only upload your responses once you have all 4 prepared. They should all be

uploaded and submitted at the same time.

o Example of file name: Korson_Q1

• Each answer should be 700-800 words in length. Note that 800 words is the upper limit. We will stop reading once answers exceed this limit. You will need to write in

a very concise manner.

• As stated in the Course Guide, extensions will only be granted where there is clear justification for this and supporting documentation provided e.g. medical

emergency or family bereavement. You must contact me immediately if you think

you have a case to make

• You have been given a week to complete the exam, and it is open book, thus a high standard of answers is required for a pass.

You may NOT use the Internet to source supplementary information for this exam, but you may

use your notes, course readings, and access additional Massey library resources (including

electronic journal articles) if you wish. You should not include any quotes. All information from

other sources should be kept to a minimum and paraphrased in your own words. Where

appropriate you can use in text citations with the author’s last name and date of the publication.

However, you should not need to include a reference list. Responses with large sections of

paraphrased material or any quoted material will not be graded. The exam is a chance to

showcase what you have learned and what you know, not what you can regurgitate from your

readings.

As indicated in the Course Guide, ‘students must complete all three pieces of assessment to be eligible to pass this course’ so if you have not completed the two assignments, there is little point in doing this exam. Please contact Cadey if you wish to discuss your options.

Additional Tips:

Focus on answering the question that is asked.

Plan your answers in a structured manner as you would for a short essay. It helps to create a

brief outline that you can then go back and fill in.

Do not only rely on the material written in the Study Guides or lessons. This is not sufficient

to pass. You must include ideas from the course’s required readings. Note that you are not restricted to using the readings specific to a particular topic e.g. there may be ideas in

readings from the ‘Understanding Development’ module that you can incorporate in your answers relating to questions drawn from later modules. It is not necessary for you to include

ideas from academic articles or books outside of the required readings, but you can do this if

you wish. Remember you are not allowed to use any material directly from the internet.

When you draw on ideas from the course readings, you should cite the references as you

would in an essay e.g. Rashbrooke (2013) argues that …. Or … (Rashbrooke 2013).

Do not plagiarise: These exam answers will be put through Turnitin. If anyone copies material,

whether phrases, sentences or paragraphs, from the Study Guides, lessons, or readings, they will

receive '0' (zero) marks for a question. The same applies to anyone who copies the work of other

students who are doing this course currently or have done this course in the past.

Good luck!

School of People, Environment and Planning

Geography Programme

Final Exam

2019/2020 Summer Semester

Answer any four (4) of the following six (6) questions.

1. Amartya Sen’s work contributed significantly to the development of the multi- dimensional Human Development Index (HDI). How do the HDI and the Human

Development Reports reflect Sen’s capabilities approach?

2. How have “colonial imageries and narratives been recycled and reformulated in contemporary discourses and practices of development” (Kothari, 2006, p.12)?

3. Using examples, examine a) how separatist movements emerge, b) why they can be

difficult to resolve, and c) instances where progress has been made.

4. With reference to the New Internationalist article and the reading by Roberts, discuss

the ways in which inequalities are shifting within South Africa.

5. Can empowerment be measured? What are some of the challenges

to measuring empowerment?

6. Does globalisation offer new, empowering opportunities to women or exploit both

their poverty and cultural positioning to gain cheap, compliant labour? Discuss in

relation to women’s work in global factories.

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