The question was very popular with the candidates but the (a) part was not well tackled.  Candidates needed to state thus to score the maximum marks for this question:

(a)     Economic development is the process whereby there is a long period of sustained growth in the per capita real income of a country, accompanied by fundamental changes in the structure of the economy.

(b)     Features of a developing economy

                   (i)      high level of poverty;
                   (ii)      inadequate infrastructural facilities;
                   (iii)     rapid population growth;

1. agriculture is the main occupation/low level of industrialization;
2. high dependency on foreign nations;
3. the use of crude technology;
4. low per capita income;
5. low level of savings and investment;
6. inadequate medical care;
7. high level of illiteracy.