What Is the Meaning of Following Term

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Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of following term:
-Structural Adjustment Program

• A) Required cuts in government spending on programs that benefit the poor.
• B) Involves the destruction of traditional values and cultures.
• C) Implies growth and increased consumption.
• D) Enabled farmers to produce more crops on the same amount of land via the use of technological advancements in the agricultural field.
• E) A label used to verify that products were NOT made in sweatshops or by children.
• F) A system in Haiti that allows children of the poor to live with those who are wealthy.
• G) An agency of the United Nations that attempts to improve the health of people around the world.
• H) Passing up an opportunity to achieve a greater benefit.
• I) A dam built in Egypt to meet the rising demand for energy and to control flooding.
• J) Encouraged millions of landless peasants to move to the Amazon and clear the land for cultivation.
• K) A hierarchical system that is part of Hindu beliefs.
• L) Takes valuable land away from agriculture.
• M) Labels used by manufacturers to show compliance with child labor laws.
• N) Caused mainly by emissions of carbon dioxide.
• O) An organization of the United Nations that deals with labor-related issues, including child labor concerns.

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Definitions:

Chi-squared Distribution

A statistical tool used to compare observed data with data we would expect to obtain according to a specific hypothesis.

Sample

A subset of individuals or units from a larger population used to estimate characteristics of the whole population.

Population

The entire pool from which a sample is drawn for statistical analysis. It can include people, objects, or events depending on the study.

Variance

Measures the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean; mathematically, it is the average of the squared differences from the Mean.