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. What is the target date for the Sustainable Development Goals?

2020 correct incorrect

2030 correct incorrect

2050 correct incorrect

No date was set as people were not confident that they would be achieved correct incorrect

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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 correct incorrect

2015 and to work towards stabilizing the rise in average global temperature to less than 2 degrees Celsius correct incorrect

2015 and to work towards stabilizing the rise in average global temperature to less than 1 degree Celsius correct incorrect

2017 and to work towards stabilizing the rise in average global temperature to less than 2 degrees Celsius correct incorrect

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. Who is the present President of China?

Xi Jinping correct incorrect

Mao Zedong correct incorrect

Deng Xiao Peng correct incorrect

Bo XiLai correct incorrect

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. Where do the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum take place?

Hangzhou in China correct incorrect

Washington D.C. in the US correct incorrect

Davos in Switzerland correct incorrect

Brussels in Germany correct incorrect

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. Which are the countries that form the PIGS in the EU?

Poland, Italy, Germany, and Sweden correct incorrect

Portugal, India, Greece, and Slovakia correct incorrect

Poland, Ireland, Greece, and Slovenia correct incorrect

Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain correct incorrect

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. Which of the following countries is not one of the BRICS nations?

Brazil correct incorrect

Russia correct incorrect

Indonesia correct incorrect

South Africa correct incorrect

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. How many countries will be in the EU after Brexit?

30 correct incorrect

12 correct incorrect

27 correct incorrect

28 correct incorrect

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. The Easterlin Paradox refers to:

Poor people do not need money to make them happy. correct incorrect

It is not the absolute level of income that makes us happy but our position relative to others. correct incorrect

The more we have the happier we are. correct incorrect

Rich people are less happy than poor people. correct incorrect

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. In the book The Spirit Level, Wilkinson and Pickett argue that:

As incomes increase well-being falls correct incorrect

It is better if everyone is equal correct incorrect

Poorer countries have a better standard of living as they avoid 'affluenza' correct incorrect

In affluent societies we could improve well-being if we managed to reduce the levels of inequality correct incorrect

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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 correct incorrect

That technology will tend to lead to rewards being concentrated in the 'head' rather than the 'tail' correct incorrect

That globally there is a distinct hierarchy of developed and undeveloped countries correct incorrect

That economic policies should actively seek to encourage the latent entrepreneurship and demand that exists amongst the poor in developing countries correct incorrect