What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past IB Economics papers and filtered to sustainable 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 sustainable development, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Using growth and development interchangeably. Growth is a rise in real output; development is a broader rise in wellbeing and freedom of choice.
- Treating sustainability as an environmental afterthought rather than a criterion applied to every strategy.
- Forgetting that growth can be anti-developmental where it depletes natural capital or accrues to a narrow group.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Sustainable Development revision notes.