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Hawken says, The cornucopia of resources that are being extracted, mined, and harvested is so poorly distributed that 20 percent of the earth's people are chronically hungry or starving, while the top 20 percent of the population, largely in the north, control and consume ________ percent of the world's wealth.
 
  a. 70
  b. 50
  c. 60
  d. 80

Question 2

Shiva says, The UN Decade for Women was based on the assumption that the improvement of women's economic position would automatically flow from an expansion and diffusion of the development process. By the end of the Decade, however, it was becoming clear that ________ itself was the problem.
 
  a. poverty
  b. All of these choices
  c. environmental degradation
  d. development



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

d



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