Severe Gender Inequality Is a Challenge to Development Because

question 56

Multiple Choice

Severe gender inequality is a challenge to development because

• A) it leads to smaller family sizes, and families with fewer child laborers cannot earn enough money to pay for their rent and utilities.
• B) it is associated with higher literacy rates, higher economic vitality, and lower infant mortality rates.
• C) it excludes men from the informal economy, wasting a major economic asset.
• D) it severely limits the economic and social mobility of women, as well as families that are headed by women.
• E) it does not allow men and boys the freedom to attend the schools and seek the jobs that are best suited to them.

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Demand

An economic principle referring to the consumer's desire and willingness to pay for a specific quantity of a good or service at a given time.

Book

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Marginal Revenue

The additional income received from selling one more unit of a product or service.

Demand Function

A mathematical representation showing the relationship between the quantity of a good that consumers are willing to buy and its price, along with other factors like income and prices of related goods.