Which of the following statements about the Human Development Index is CORRECT?
a. It is compiled by the World Bank.
b. It includes measures for sustainable development.
c. It is used to measure and compare levels of achievement in health, knowledge, and the standard of living.
d. The countries with the lowest HDI rankings were the United States, New Zealand, and Norway.
e. It assesses the level of interaction between people in a political system.
c
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What will be an ideal response?
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a. intimate and cooperative. b. mutually intrusive and meddlesome. c. mutually independent and exclusionary to the extent of interfering with joint efforts. d. neither particularly cooperative nor uncooperative. e. friendly due to the overlapping nature of their duties and responsibilities.
The __________ was created in 2004 to establish a central authority for coordination of the roughly 15 agencies that make up the intelligence community
a. Director for Central Intelligence b. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) c. Department of Homeland Security d. National Intelligence Council
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A) Starvation kills more people than malnutrition does. B) People die from starvation and malnutrition because there is not enough food produced in the world to feed them. C) About one billion people live in abject poverty. D) Starvation triggered by war or drought affects more people than chronic poverty does.