Development and Human Welfare Quiz

What is one of the key indicators of development?

• Type of job

• Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita

• Number of doctors per 1000 people

• Car ownership

What does the Human Development Index (HDI) measure?

• Gini coefficient index

• Gross National Product (GNP)

• Life expectancy at birth

• Political corruption

What is the Gini coefficient index used to analyze?

• Levels of education

• Distribution of wealth

• Life expectancy

• Employment in economic sectors

What is the highest inequality in terms of wealth distribution?

• Central Africa

• Czech Republic

• Denmark

• New Zealand

What is the main cause of regional differences in development?

• Ethnicity

• Technology

• Land ownership

• Cumulative causation theory

What is the main factor affecting the available workforce in a country?

• Government policies

• Birth and death rates

• Levels of education

• Residence

What is the measure of the disparities between countries developed by the UN in 1990?

• Gross National Income (GNI) per capita

• Gini coefficient index

• Human Development Index (HDI)

• Indices of political corruption

What is the traditional method of measuring wealth through a country's GNP, GDP, and GNI?

• Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita

• Gross National Income (GNI) per capita

• Gini coefficient index

• Human Development Index (HDI)

What is the cycle of wealth related to?

• Indices of political corruption

• Levels of education

• Indices of political corruption

• Economic development

What is the main cause of the development gap?

• Physical geography

• Demography

• Technology

• Indices of political corruption