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Read the following passage and answer the item that follows. Your answers to this item should be based on the passage only.In the last two decades, the world's gross domestic product (GDP) has increased by 50 percent, whereas inclusive wealth has increased by a mere 3 percent. In recent decades, GDP-driven economic performance has only harmed inclusive wealth like human capital; and natural capital like forests, land and water. While the world's human capital which stands at 57 percent of total inclusive wealth grew by only 8 percent, the natural capital which is 23 percent of total inclusive wealth declined by 30 percent worldwide in the last two decades.Which of the following is the most crucial inference from the above passage?

A. More emphasis should be laid or the development of natural capital.
B. The growth driven by GDP only is neither desirable nor sustainable.
C. The economic performance of the countries of the world is not satisfactory.
D. The world needs more human capital under the present circumstances.
Answer» C. The economic performance of the countries of the world is not satisfactory.


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