Identify Umbrella and Thesis Statements
Read the sentences below. Determine whether each one represents a thesis statement or an umbrella statement.
Statement 1 |
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Considering the overcentralization of the government, it is not surprising that land reform has made little or no progress in most of the oblasts. Thesis Umbrella |
Statement 2 |
Private capital flows from Germany to developing countries have increased fourfold in the past five years, while foreign aid has decreased by nearly 20 percent. Thesis Umbrella |
Statement 3 |
Three agreed-upon measures and two reform efforts have been undertaken in Russian land reform. Thesis Umbrella |
Statement 4 |
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) include a wide variety of groups. Definitions vary, but NGOs typically are entities that are entirely or largely independent of government and have humanitarian or cooperative rather than commercial objectives. Thesis Umbrella |
Statement 5 |
The model of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) will not work until the agency can solve three major administrative problems. Thesis Umbrella |
Statement 6 |
OED assessed in-depth 37 projects or major project components in five countries: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Kenya, and Mali. These countries were chosen in late 1996 following a review of the 24 countries with 10 or more projects with provisions for NGO involvement identified in the Bank’s NGO database. Thesis Umbrella |
Statement 7 |
For NGO involvement in Bank-supported projects to succeed, several elements have to be handled well by all the partners; however, only a few have to be done poorly for a partnership to perform poorly. While the investment needed to achieve the necessary elements may seem high, the results can be worthwhile when investment is undertaken selectively. Thesis Umbrella |