According to the World Bank, about how many people in the world in 2006 were living on less than 1 per day?
a. 65 million
b. 187 million
c. 650 million
d. 994 million
e. 1 billion
Question 2
A key difference between a colonial government and an independent government is:
a. Colonies need to be made productive for their owners. Independent nations need to be prosperous in their own right.
b. Colonial governments are much more likely to regulate freedom of speech than are independent governments.
c. Colonial governments generally attempt to control as much of the economy of the colonized nation as possible. Independent governments generally exercise less control over the economy.
d. Colonial governments never return any value to their subjects; even oppressive independent governments return some work of value to their citizens.
e. Independent governments in the third world invariably had higher levels of corruption than their colonial predecessors.
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