[POLI 422] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (37 pages long)

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Material: questions will be based on module 1 and module 2. Questions: 15 multiple choice questions and 2 essay questions. Impartiality government must be impartial, it is a good in itself. In a "stationary bandit", the ruler receives taxation instead of plundering. Plundering is less optimal than taxation or a tribute system in e/x for protection. The taxation of tribute system becomes the cornerstone of an agreement with the inhabitants of the polity. All poverty decreases in the past 30 years has been because of china. Monotonic/secular trend has occurred goes in a single trend for poverty. The theory states that once country receives proper economic stimulus , it would then take off and prosper. Some countries responded quite well while others did not. Numbers of rural poor are in south asia, not much change. Change in east asia attributable to china"s growth. Middle-east and latin america do not have high rural poverty.