What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 9708 papers and filtered to economic development. You answer, you find out immediately whether you were right, and you get the reasoning for the correct option and for each distractor. Wrong answers go to a mistakes locker so you can come back to exactly those.
Practice is free. You need an account only so your progress and your mistakes are still there next time.
Start practising Paper 3 MCQs →
What examiners see students get wrong here
These are the errors that cost marks on economic development, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Treating growth and development as synonyms.
- Comparing GDP per head across countries without PPP adjustment.
- Forgetting to adjust for population growth.
- Saying the HDI accounts for inequality, which the standard HDI does not.
- Forgetting that HDI income is logged, and why.
- Confusing GDP with GNI, particularly in questions about foreign investment.
- Listing indicators without saying what each one misses.
- Ignoring the informal economy when discussing low income countries.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Economic Development revision notes.