DEVELOPMENT

Which is the correct definition of a developed country?

• A country with a well established economy and infrastructure. Typically with a high HDI

• A country without a well established economy and infrastructure. Typically with a high HDI

• A country with a poorly established economy but well established infrastructure. Typically with a high HDI

• A country with a well established economy and infrastructure. Typically with a low HDI

Sustainable Development is that development which satisfies the need of:

• Present generation only

• future generation only

• both (a) & (b)

• none of these

Which of the following is a necessary condition for sustainable development?

• Increase in the quality of life

• Reduction in the level of pollution

• conservation of stock of natural capital

• All of these

What is HDI?

• Human Development Index

• Huge Donut Industry

• High Development Industry

• Highly Dubious Imagination

Which three indicators are used to measure the HDI?

• Literacy rate, number of trees and GNI

• Life expectancy, schooling and GNI per capita

What is life expectancy?

• How long you are expected to live for when you're born

• Whether or not you will be born

• Amount of money a country has

• What people expect out of life

What is the literacy rate?

• The amount of adults who have written a book

• The amount of adults who have electricity per 1000

• The amount of adults who can read and write per 1000

• The amount of children that can read by age 5

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GDP per capita is highest in

• South America

• East Asia

• North America

• Eastern Europe

Development of a country can generally be determined by its:

• per capita income

• health status of its people

• average literacy level

• none of these

Different persons could have different as well as conflicting notions of a country’s development. A fair and just path for all should be achieved. Interpret the concept being discussed here.

• Social development

• National development

• Cultural development

• Economic development