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Why, on Shiva's view, is the conflation of subsistence living with poverty especially troublesome?
 
  a. It provides false legitimacy to 'poverty-removal projects which instead ofremoving poverty removes sustainability.
 b. It supports a cultural bias known as ethnocentrism whereby people fromaffluent countries fail to acknowledge the heritage of those in thedeveloping world. c. All of these choices
 d. It breeds Western-style consumerism in third-world countries.

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Shiva argues that subsistence economies that satisfy basic needs through selfprovisions are not genuinely poor. What examples does she give of this culturally perceived false poverty?
 
  a. People are seen as poor if they live in houses which they built themselvesare of local products such as bamboo rather than imported products suchas concrete.
 b. All of these choices
  c. People are seen as poor if they were home-made garments of natural fiberrather than synthetic fibers.
 d. People are perceived as poor if they eat home-grown millet rather thancommercially produced and distributed processed foods.



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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