Unit 5: HL extension · Global political challenges
Topic 5.6: Poverty Questions
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Explain how poverty reflects and reproduces power imbalances.
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Analyse why most real cases of poverty require both resources and a shift in power.
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Explain the debate over conditionality in responses to poverty.
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Explain what the poverty trap is and why it makes poverty hard to escape.
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Explain the difference between absolute and relative poverty, and why the distinction matters.
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Discuss the view that poverty is caused mainly by global structures rather than domestic factors.
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Discuss the view that poverty should be measured by more than income alone.
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Discuss the view that poverty is better tackled by empowering the poor than by giving them money.
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Discuss the view that aid does more harm than good in tackling poverty.
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Discuss the view that ending poverty depends more on reforming global structures than on aid.
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To what extent can global poverty be ended? (synthesise the whole poverty challenge)
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To what extent are individuals responsible for their own poverty? (synthesise across the challenge)
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Recommend how a government should measure poverty in order to target help effectively.
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To what extent is poverty best understood as a lack of capabilities rather than a lack of money? (synthesise across the challenge)
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To what extent is poverty the same problem as inequality? (synthesise across the challenge)
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Using a case of your choice, recommend how a national government and the international community together could reduce a specific form of poverty.
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Recommend how a country could tackle poverty concentrated among a voiceless, marginalised group.
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Recommend how a low-income country and its international partners could tackle the main causes of its poverty.
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Recommend the most effective way for the international community to reduce poverty in a low-income country.
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To what extent should responses to poverty focus on giving people money rather than changing the rules? (synthesise across the challenge)
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