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The document contains 15 questions about concepts related to development including definitions of development, criteria used by organizations like the World Bank to classify countries, factors beyond income that impact development, differences in perceptions of development, limitations of average income as an indicator, and indices like the Human Development Index that incorporate non-income factors. It also addresses how development for some can mean destruction for others and issues around using averages to compare situations between geographic areas.

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Assignment Development

The document contains 15 questions about concepts related to development including definitions of development, criteria used by organizations like the World Bank to classify countries, factors beyond income that impact development, differences in perceptions of development, limitations of average income as an indicator, and indices like the Human Development Index that incorporate non-income factors. It also addresses how development for some can mean destruction for others and issues around using averages to compare situations between geographic areas.

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Development
1. What is development?
2. What is the main criterion used by the World Bank in classifying different countries? What are
the limitations of this criterion, if any?
3. Besides income what are other things people may look for growth and development?
4. Why do different persons have different notions of development?
5. Development for one May be destruction for other. Do you agree with the statement?
6. Give example where an average is used for comparing situations?
7. Why do you think average income is an important criteria for development? Explain.
8. Suppose records show that the average income in a country has been increasing over a
period of time. From this, can we conclude that all sections of the economy have become
better? Illustrate your answer with an example.
9. Distinguish between developing country and developed country?
10. Explain the terms infant mortality rate literacy rate net attendance ratio?
11. Kerala, with lower per capita ,has a better Human Development ranking than Maharashtra
Hence per capita income is not useful criteria at all and should not be used to compare States
do you agree?
12. In what respect is the criteria used by undp for measuring development different from the
one used by the World Bank?
13. What is Human Development Index name its variables?
14. Consequences of environmental degradation do not respect national or state boundaries.
Explain the meaning of the statement.
15. money or material things that one can buy with it is one factor on which our life depends but
the quality of our life also depends on non material things what non material things do we need
in life what values do such things reflect?

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