Consumerism is the belief that the free choice of ___ should dictate the economic structure of a society
Consumers
Suppliers
The other answers are correct
Consumerist societies are more prone to ___ the Environment
Looking after
Damaging
The other answers are correct
We are witnessing the ___ of materialism, specifically in the technological aspect
Decrease
Increase
The other answers are correct
There has always been strong criticism of anti-consumer movements. Most of this comes from ___ thoughts
The other answers are correct
Socialist
Liberal
Poverty rates increase by ___
The other answers are correct
Expansions
Recessions
What is the correct statement?
The poor spend a greater proportion of their budgets on food than the rich
The rich spend a greater proportion of their budgets on food than the poor
The other answers are correct
What is the correct statement?
Poor democracies don't spend more on their health and education sectors, as a percentage of GDP, than do poor autocracies
Poor autocracies spend more on their health and education sectors, as a percentage of GDP, than poor democracies
The other answers are correct
Government failures to provide essential infrastructure ___ poverty
The other answers are correct
Worse
Improve
Crime ___ poverty
The other answers are correct
Improves
Worses
Poor access to affordable health care makes individuals ___ vulnerable to poverty
More
Less
The other answers are correct
Desertification and overgrazing ___ poverty
The other answers are correct
Worse
Improve
Usually, relative poverty is measured as the percentage of the population with incomes ___ than a fixed proportion or median income
Above
Below
The other answers are correct
The World Bank defines extrem poverty as living witht less than a Parity Purchasing Power of ___ dollars per day
1.15
1.5
1.25
One of the strategies to reduce poverty is ___
Substitute imports and develop export industries
Substitute exports and develop import industries
The other answers are correct
One of the most popular of the new technical tools for economic development and poverty reduction is the ___
Miniloans
Microloans
The other answers are correct
___ nations meet 0.7% development aid target
A lot of
A few
The other answers are correct
Who is better at locating the poor?
The other answers are correct
Govenment
Non-governmental organizations
One of the "Quick earnings" of the Sachs Report is drugs for ___
AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
Obesity, crow's feet, and blackhead
The other answers are correct
The ___ is the status of an organization (for example a country) that hasn't reached maturity
Development
Underdevelopment
The other answers are correct
Underdeveloped countries have an unbalanced trade balance resulting from their dependence on primary products that are experiencing ___ in demand with the evolution of new technologies that requiere smaller amounts of raw materials (as is the case with many metals)
The other answers are correct
An increment
A reduction
Modernization Theory consists of ___ parts
Three
Two
Four
The external debt debtors are ___
The governments
The other answers are correct
Companies and households
Some critics and activists for debt relief say that the problem isn't necessarily with the borrowers and therefore moral hazard isn't necessarily ___