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1.Many countries aim to improve their living standards by economic development, but some important social values are lost as a result. Do you think the advantage of economic development outweigh the disadvantages?

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The exponential
growth
 of the urban population has imposed an awareness on the part of world governments. The main purpose of each country is to improve its citizens life standards and reach affordable access to quality education, healthcare and environment.
However
, there are many critics who believe that, in order to achieve a higher lifestyle many important social values would be forgotten. On one hand, everyone in our society should benefit of a decent standard of living.
This
 is the reason why, nowadays, governments have to face
the great
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the greatest
 challenge of ensuring an improvement of their
citizens
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citizens'
 well-being. Many countries find economic development as an important tool to achieve
this
 cause by providing enhanced standards of public services: health and education. Improved
healthcare
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health care
 system helps in increasing people’s life expectancy by treating dangerous diseases, while education enriches people’s understanding of themselves and
world
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the world
 and leads to broad social benefits to individual and society.
On the other hand
, economic development has
also
 its disadvantages, one of the most important being environmental concerns. Fast
growth
 can lead to noise pollution and lower air quality, along with huge increase in household and industrial waste. The construction of new roads, hotels and other industrial estates results in rapid and massive deforestation, over-
population particularly
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population, particularly
 in urban areas, species extinction and, of course, climate change. As a consequence,
growth
 that leads to environmental damage may lower the quality of life
instead
 of improving it. In a nutshell, economic evolution has obvious advantages in improvement of living standards, but, at the same time, it can affect our natural and social way in many ways mainly due to improper use of resources for the development and improper
growth
 practices
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