What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past Cambridge IGCSE papers and filtered to differences in economic development between countries. 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 differences in economic development between countries, 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 the same thing.
- Saying developing countries are poor simply because they are "less advanced", with no mechanism.
- Forgetting the poverty cycle, which explains why the gap persists.
- Ignoring population growth when comparing living standards. Always think per capita.
- Assuming all developing countries are alike; they differ enormously.
- Listing causes without saying which the country could actually change.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Differences in Economic Development Between Countries revision notes.