8A.3 Economic and social development Quiz: Pearson Edexcel Geography, Unit 10

The 20 questions

1. Which government type typically spends the highest proportion of GDP on social services?

   • Welfare state
   • Authoritarian state
   • Totalitarian regime
   • Military junta

2. Which set of IGOs has traditionally promoted neo-liberal economic development policies globally?

   • NATO, OPEC, ASEAN
   • EU, MERCOSUR, NAFTA
   • UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO
   • WTO, IMF, World Bank

3. Which policy is strongly associated with traditional neo-liberal approaches to economic development?

   • Market deregulation
   • High import tariffs
   • Central price controls
   • State nationalisation

4. What primary dimension was integrated into the UN post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals?

   • Environmental sustainability
   • Currency unification
   • Space exploration
   • Military defence

5. How is global progress towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals best described?

   • Entirely stagnant
   • Completely uniform
   • Highly mixed
   • Universally successful

6. Which focus area is increasingly prioritised in modern IGO programmes over classic neo-liberal goals?

   • Market nationalisation
   • Tariff increases
   • Environmental protection
   • Financial protectionism

7. What does financial market deregulation involve within a neo-liberal economic strategy?

   • Removing state rules
   • Capping corporate profits
   • Increasing public ownership
   • Raising import duties

8. What key factor determines how effectively economic growth translates into social development?

   • Total land area
   • Government spending decisions
   • Raw material exports
   • Tropical climate zone

9. Selling state hospitals to private companies reflects which economic development ideology?

   • Mercantilism
   • Neo-liberalism
   • Socialism
   • Protectionism

10. A region has met 12 of its 20 tracked SDG targets. What percentage of targets has it achieved?

    • 12%
    • 60%
    • 80%
    • 40%

11. A country spends 4.5 billion dollars on health in a year and has a population of 15 million. What is the average health spending per person?

    • 75 dollars
    • 30 dollars
    • 300 dollars
    • 3,000 dollars

12. Real GDP rises from 200 billion to 210 billion dollars in one year. What is the percentage growth rate?

    • 4.8%
    • 5%
    • 2.5%
    • 10%

13. Which IGO policy approach is often criticised for producing uneven global development outcomes?

    • Neo-liberal free trade
    • Import substitution
    • Welfare state expansion
    • Closed economy policy

14. Why does economic growth fail to automatically guarantee improvements in social development?

    • Eliminates private business
    • Requires government investment
    • Causes immediate deflation
    • Prevents infrastructure growth

15. What overall outcome have traditional neo-liberal policies created across developing nations?

    • Uneven development progress
    • Equal global wealth
    • Total economic collapse
    • Complete market stability

16. How should partial achievement across Sustainable Development Goal targets be classified?

    • Mixed progress
    • Complete failure
    • Total policy irrelevance
    • Universal success

17. What primarily determines whether economic growth leads to social development?

    • Government decisions
    • Foreign direct investment
    • Population growth
    • Global trade flows

18. What is the main risk to social progress when governments cut public spending?

    • Rapid economic decline
    • Lagging social development
    • Hyperinflation
    • Decreased trade volume

19. What key concept was added to the MDGs to create the Sustainable Development Goals?

    • Free market trade
    • Military alliance
    • Currency unification
    • Environmental sustainability

20. Which economic ideology traditionally dominated major IGO development programmes?

    • Marxism
    • Keynesianism
    • Neoliberalism
    • Protectionism

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