What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past IB Economics papers and filtered to measuring 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.
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What examiners see students get wrong here
These are the errors that cost marks on measuring development, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Quoting GDP per capita as a development measure without noting that it is a mean and says nothing about distribution.
- Describing the HDI without naming its three dimensions: health, education and income.
- Forgetting purchasing power parity when comparing incomes across countries, which overstates the gap between rich and poor economies.
- Treating any single composite index as sufficient, when the point of having several is that each misses something.
- Listing limitations generically rather than tying them to the data in front of you.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Measuring Development revision notes.