<span>D. Countries built large armies and stockpiled powerful weapons
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Answer:
Our flagship World Development
Report 2012 demonstrated that gender equality and economic development are inextricably linked. It showed
that equality not only guarantees basic
rights but also plays a vital role in promoting the robust, shared growth needed to end
extreme poverty in our increasingly competitive, globalized world. The persistent constraints and deprivations that prevent many
of the world’s women from achieving their
potential have huge consequences for individuals, families, communities, and nations.
The 2012 report recognized that expanding
women’s agency—their ability to make decisions and take advantage of opportunities—
is key to improving their lives as well as the
world we all share.
Explanation:
The correct answer is D.
Direct democracy is exercised when voters, instead of electing political representatives that would govern and conduct policymaking on their behalf, are directly involved and can choose to support those policies that they consider to be more appropiate. <u>Option D is the only situation in which the policy choice is directly made by citizens. </u>
<em>Options A, B or C cannot be correct because in all of them the decision-making is performed by a body or an institution constituted by representatives that have been elected by citizens: the Congress, the town hall or the President. </em>
Nowadays, most democracies in the world are representative democracies were citizens whose representatives through suffrage, in opposition to direct democracies.
