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Sort the costsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Development bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A student lists South Asia as Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and one more. Which is it?Read the answer and worked solution →Which big neighbour is called an important player but not a part of South Asia?Read the answer and worked solution →Pakistan began the post-Cold War years under elected governments. What broke the run in 1999?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year did Nepal abolish its monarchy and become a democratic republic?Read the answer and worked solution →The Maldives was a Sultanate until which year, when it became a republic?Read the answer and worked solution →A river treaty between India and Pakistan signed in 1960 has survived every war since. Name it.Read the answer and worked solution →After the 1971 war, India and Pakistan signed which agreement in July 1972?Read the answer and worked solution →India conducted its first nuclear test in May of which year?Read the answer and worked solution →The SAARC Charter was signed at the first summit in December 1985 in which city?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1988 India sent troops to which island nation to foil a coup by mercenaries?Read the answer and worked solution →India and Bangladesh signed the Farakka Treaty in December 1996 to share the waters of which river?Read the answer and worked solution →In February 1999 Prime Minister Vajpayee took a bus to which city to sign a peace declaration?Read the answer and worked solution →SAFTA was signed in January 2004 at the twelfth SAARC summit in which city?Read the answer and worked solution →Which country joined SAARC in 2007 as its newest member?Read the answer and worked solution →Which general removed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's elected government in Pakistan in 1977?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Prime Minister did General Pervez Musharraf remove in the 1999 coup?Read the answer and worked solution →Whose Awami League won all the East Pakistan seats in the 1970 election, setting off the Bangladesh crisis?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Bangladeshi military ruler stepped down in 1990 after mass protests, restoring multi-party democracy?Read the answer and worked solution →In 2006 Nepal's pro-democracy movement was led by the Maoists, activists and which alliance?Read the answer and worked solution →Which militant group fought Sri Lanka's army from 1983 for a separate Tamil Eelam?Read the answer and worked solution →The Indian Peace Keeping Force left Sri Lanka in which year without achieving its aim?Read the answer and worked solution →Pakistan answered India's 1998 Pokaran tests with tests of its own at which site?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch South AsiaRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Pakistan generalsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the treaty yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the pactsRead the answer and worked solution →Which neighbourRead the answer and worked solution →

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Sort the costs

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Items
  1. Group
    Financial
    Item
    Africa debt
  2. Group
    Financial
    Item
    Loans
  3. Group
    Social
    Item
    Displacement
  4. Group
    Social
    Item
    Lost skills
  5. Group
    Social
    Item
    Lost culture
  6. Group
    Environment
    Item
    Mangrove loss
  7. Group
    Environment
    Item
    Melting ice
  8. Group
    Environment
    Item
    Air pollution
Groups
  1. Item
    Financial
  2. Item
    Social
  3. Item
    Environment
Instructions
Drop each cost onto its kind.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Political Theory, Chapter 10, Development._

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Type the number

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Questions
  1. Answer
    1990
    Question
    Year MOSOP was launched
  2. Answer
    1993
    Question
    Year oil companies left Ogoni
  3. Answer
    1995
    Question
    Year Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed
  4. Answer
    2004
    Question
    Year of the Asian tsunami
  5. Answer
    1950
    Question
    Decade Indian Five Year Plans began, e.g. 1950s means 1950
  6. Answer
    1
    Question
    People displaced by Sardar Sarovar per opponents, in millions
Instructions
Type the number only.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Political Theory, Chapter 10, Development._

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Development bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Hope that growth reaches the poor.
    Item
    Trickle down
  2. Clue
    Dam of the early Five Year Plans.
    Item
    Bhakra
  3. Clue
    Movement against Sardar Sarovar.
    Item
    NBA
  4. Clue
    Ogoni activist executed in 1995.
    Item
    Saro-Wiwa
  5. Clue
    Movement to save Himalayan forests.
    Item
    Chipko
  6. Clue
    UNDP's annual development report.
    Item
    HDR
  7. Clue
    Roti, kapda aur makaan.
    Item
    Basic needs
  8. Clue
    Plans made by leaders without consulting.
    Item
    Top-down
  9. Clue
    Energy an alternative model prefers.
    Item
    Renewable
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Political Theory, Chapter 10, Development._

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