In SSLC Development Studies, the term development is best understood as:
What Is Development
Question · Easy
Which statement best contrasts a developed country with a developing country?
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is best defined as:
The United Nations Development Programme Human Development Index (HDI) is built from which three dimensions?
Which statement best distinguishes economic growth from economic development?
Why is GDP a limited principal measure of development in a country such as Samoa?
Question · Medium
Why do many development students prefer HDI to GDP per capita alone?
For a remittance-receiving economy, why can Gross National Income (GNI) tell a different story from GDP?
A common long-run effect of colonial trade patterns on later development is that:
Critics of unregulated free trade argue that it can harm developing countries mainly because:
The Brundtland Report (Our Common Future, 1987) defines sustainable development as development that:
Amartya Sen's capability approach treats development primarily as:
A country can record rising GDP and still show weak development if:
Question · Hard
Dependency and core–periphery arguments claim that underdevelopment is reproduced mainly by:
The strongest reason to use several development indicators instead of one headline number is that:
Primary production is best described as:
Primary Secondary Tertiary And Quaternary Production
Which activity is an example of secondary production?
Tertiary production mainly involves:
Quaternary production is best illustrated by:
A Samoan household that grows taro, bananas, and coconuts mainly to feed the aiga is engaged in:
Which Samoan example is commercial rather than subsistence production?
A receptionist, tour guide, and airport baggage handler in Samoa are all working in the:
Unemployment, in the standard labour-force sense, describes a person who:
Which list is the best set of Industrial Revolution characteristics?
Which contrast between formal and informal employment is most accurate?
Intensive agriculture differs from extensive agriculture because intensive systems:
Food security exists when people have:
How can technology support food security in island communities?
One development advantage of commercial plantations in a developing country is that they can:
A development disadvantage of large commercial plantations is that they may:
Which cultural factor can make commercial farming harder for village producers in Samoa?
A clear economic benefit of a Pacific primary industry such as tuna fishing is that it can:
During the Industrial Revolution, many women and children in factory districts:
One frequently cited disadvantage of multinational companies in the Pacific is that they may:
A possible advantage of a well-regulated multinational in a small economy is:
Globalization can damage the natural environment when:
Which Samoa-based activity is the best example of quaternary production?
Small island economies often remain heavily dependent on a few primary exports because:
Value adding in a primary-export economy means:
Samoa's economy is often described as dual because:
Secondary industry is often limited in a small isolated market mainly because:
The most precise distinction between tertiary and quaternary work is that:
Underemployment differs from unemployment because an underemployed person:
Export concentration is a development risk when:
Processing coconut into oil in Samoa rather than exporting only copra is best classified as a move:
Bilateral aid is best defined as:
International Aid
Multilateral aid is channelled mainly through:
Aid delivered by a non-governmental organisation (NGO) is distinctive because the NGO:
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