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The world's population had reached 2.0 billion by about the year:
 
  A) 1850
  B) 1930
  C) 1990
  D) 2010

Question 2

What is Gross National Income (GNI) and what are its shortcomings as an indicator of economic development and social well-being?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

GNI ignores nonmarket economic indicators, such as bartering or household work; it does not consider economic degradation or depletion of natural resources.



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