Question

The Harris-Todaro model explains how expected income differentials lead people to migrate away from these areas. For 10 points each:
[10e] Give this general term for sparsely-populated areas that are traditionally more agriculture-heavy than urban areas.
ANSWER: rural areas [accept rural economies or rural regions or other terms that use rural; accept the countryside]
[10h] This economist believed that inequality would increase with rural-to-urban migration, but later decline as welfare and social mobility increased income, which he plotted on a namesake inverted-U curve.
ANSWER: Simon Kuznets [or Simon Smith Kuznets; accept the Kuznets curve]
[10m] Bangladesh offered a successful $8.50 rural migration incentive to alleviate seasonal instances of these events called monga. A 1981 book by Amartya Sen developed the “entitlement” approach to these events.
ANSWER: famines [or hungers; accept Poverty and Famines; prompt on scarcity or shortage of food]
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TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2024 PACE NSC06/08/2024Y514.00100%40%0%