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7.Which of the following is NOT true? ________.

Select one:

a. environmental problems arise only due to industrialization

b. process of economic growth in agricultural developing countries does not lead to environmental problems.

c. process of economic growth often leads to environmental degradation

d. development is needed to improve well-being of populations in developing countries.

e. environmental degradation can eventually retard economic growth an development

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Amartya Sen argued poverty needs to be ________.

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a. viewed as rising per capita income level

b. differentiated as extreme and basic

c. addressed through structural adjustment policies

d. viewed as deprivation of freedoms

e. none of the choices (above and/or below)

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Purchasing power parity is used to demonstrate ________.

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a. the need for 'fair trade' economics

b. the need for international development programs

c. an exchange rate that equates the price of a basket of identical traded goods and services in two countries.

d. why developing countries operate under their own economic logic

e. none of the choices (above and/or below)

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“Environmental problems worsen in the early phase of economic growth.” This statement ________.

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a. contradicts the idea of environmental Kuznets curve

b. contradicts the experience of developed counties

c. is consistent with the idea of environmental Kuznets curve

d. Contradicts the experience of developed countries and the idea of Kuznets curve both

e. contradicts the experience of developing countries

Answer 1

1) "B" process of economic growth doesn't lead to environmental degradation. It does and industrialization is one of the major cause of environmental degradation.

2) as per Amartya Sen Poverty is a deprivation of Freedom.

3) "C" it equates the price of two goods in two different countries. It mainly the basket of two goods and their prices can be compared by PPP.

4) "C" is consistent with the idea of environmental Kuznets curve. Environment Kuznets curve states that as the nation develops its environment degrades and then improves when they are fully developed.