<span>d. meeting participation requirements each week</span>
Answer:
The correct answer is letter "B": least-developed countries.
Explanation:
Least-developed countries or LDCs are low-income countries highly vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks and have a low level of human assets. The United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP) reviews the list of countries every 3 years and makes recommendations on inclusions and graduations of the countries if eligible. In order to classify those countries, they use 3 criteria:
* Human assets: imply secondary school enrollment, under-nourishment, maternal mortality, adult literacy and under-five mortality.
* Economic vulnerability: include population, remoteness, export concentration, victims of natural disasters, the share of agriculture and fishing in Gross Domestic Product, share of population in coastal zones, instability of exports and agriculture
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* Income per capita: according to the 2015 per capita threshold for the graduation of the LCD list is USD 1242.
In order for a country to graduate from the LCD list, 2 out of the 3 criteria must be improved after the review of the CDP in a period of 3 years, twice consecutively.
The Renaissance saw the emergence of city-states in Italy and elsewhere that benefited from being located along trade routes by land and sea. Explore the growth of independent trading Italian city-states like Genoa and Venice that thrived during the Renaissance.
