Placing Countries into Two Broad Categories Such as 'Developed/developing' or 'Industrialised/industrialising

question 29

Multiple Choice

Placing countries into two broad categories such as 'developed/developing' or 'industrialised/industrialising' is misleading for all but one of the following reasons.

• A)It suggests a country is either industrialised or not industrialised.
• B)It suggests that a failure to industrialise is what makes a country poor.
• C)It suggests that developing countries can actually become industrialised.
• D)It camouflages the fact that many 'developing' countries were part of the Industrial Revolution from the beginning.

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