A worker cuts timber in a forest and hauls the logs to a mill. What sector of the economy is that job in?

A factory employee turns cotton cloth into shirts for sale. What sector of the economy is that job in?

A nurse provides care to patients in a hospital. What sector of the economy is that job in?

A university researcher creates new data models to improve crop mapping. What sector of the economy is that job in?

A miner extracts copper ore from the ground before it is sent to a smelter. What sector of the economy is that job in?

A delivery driver moves packaged goods from a port to stores for customers. What sector of the economy is that job in?

A bakery worker uses flour, yeast, and ovens to make bread for sale. What sector of the economy is that job in?

Families choose what to buy, and businesses decide what to sell based mostly on prices and profit. What type of economy is this?

A national planning agency sets factory output targets and fixes the prices of goods. What type of economy is this?

Farmers choose the crops they think customers will buy, and prices rise when demand is high. What type of economy is this?

Central planners assign workers to state-owned mines and decide how much coal each mine must produce. What type of economy is this?

Competing shops lower prices when customers stop buying and raise prices when goods sell out quickly. What type of economy is this?

The government owns the major factories and decides how many cars, phones, and tractors will be made each year. What type of economy is this?

Country X has GDP per capita of $2,400 and HDI of 0.55; Country Y has $36,000 and 0.88. What do the indicators show?

Country A has GDP per capita of $18,000 and HDI of 0.80; Country B has $17,500 and 0.81. What is the most exact comparison?

Country M has GDP per capita of $6,000 and HDI of 0.70; Country N has $20,000 and 0.64. What does this comparison show?

Country P has life expectancy 82 years, schooling 13 years, and GDP per capita $42,000; Country Q has 61 years, 7 years, and $5,000. What is likely true?

Country C has GDP per capita of $9,000 and HDI of 0.72. Country D has $15,000 and 0.73. What do the data show?

Country R has GDP per capita of $30,000 and HDI of 0.76; Country S has $16,000 and 0.84. What is the best reading of the indicators?

Country U has GDP per capita of $4,000 and HDI of 0.48; Country V has $4,500 and 0.76. What does this comparison show?

What does GDP per capita measure in a country?

HDI combines income per person with what two broad measures of life in a country?

In the HDI, what does life expectancy measure?

What does the schooling part of HDI measure?

Why is GDP per capita used instead of total GDP to compare development levels?

A landlocked country pays more to ship goods than a coastal neighbor with similar output. What mechanism best explains the gap?

A country's exports and tax revenue depend mostly on one nonrenewable mineral. Why can its income change sharply from year to year?

An arid, mountainous country has little arable land and imports much of its grain. What best explains that economic pattern?

A coastal city's economy is heavy in finance, research, and software services. What factor most supports that pattern?

A tropical farming region has fertile soils, but many workdays are lost to malaria. Which step would most directly raise farm output?