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Chapter 16 Multiple choice questions
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Chapter 16 Multiple choice questions
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What is the target date for the Sustainable Development Goals?
2020
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2030
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2050
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No date was set as people were not confident that they would be achieved
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In what year was the Paris Climate Change agreement signed and what was its recommended global temperature target?
2010 and to work towards stabilizing the rise in average global temperature to less than 1 degree Celsius
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2015 and to work towards stabilizing the rise in average global temperature to less than 2 degrees Celsius
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2015 and to work towards stabilizing the rise in average global temperature to less than 1 degree Celsius
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2017 and to work towards stabilizing the rise in average global temperature to less than 2 degrees Celsius
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Who is the present President of China?
Xi Jinping
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Mao Zedong
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Deng Xiao Peng
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Bo XiLai
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Where do the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum take place?
Hangzhou in China
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Washington D.C. in the US
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Davos in Switzerland
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Brussels in Germany
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Which are the countries that form the PIGS in the EU?
Poland, Italy, Germany, and Sweden
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Portugal, India, Greece, and Slovakia
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Poland, Ireland, Greece, and Slovenia
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Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain
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Which of the following countries is
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one of the BRICS nations?
Brazil
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Russia
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Indonesia
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South Africa
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How many countries will be in the EU after Brexit?
30
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12
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27
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28
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The Easterlin Paradox refers to:
Poor people do not need money to make them happy.
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It is not the absolute level of income that makes us happy but our position relative to others.
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The more we have the happier we are.
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Rich people are less happy than poor people.
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In the book
The Spirit Level
, Wilkinson and Pickett argue that:
As incomes increase well-being falls
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It is better if everyone is equal
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Poorer countries have a better standard of living as they avoid 'affluenza'
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In affluent societies we could improve well-being if we managed to reduce the levels of inequality
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What does the term 'bottom of the pyramid' models refer to?
That economic development will always mean that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer
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That technology will tend to lead to rewards being concentrated in the 'head' rather than the 'tail'
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That globally there is a distinct hierarchy of developed and undeveloped countries
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That economic policies should actively seek to encourage the latent entrepreneurship and demand that exists amongst the poor in developing countries
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