Placing countries into two broad categories such as 'developed/developing' or 'industrialised/industrialising' is misleading for all but one of the following reasons.
A)It suggests a country is either industrialised or not industrialised.
B)It suggests that a failure to industrialise is what makes a country poor.
C)It suggests that developing countries can actually become industrialised.
D)It camouflages the fact that many 'developing' countries were part of the Industrial Revolution from the beginning.

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The correct choice is C because it does not present a misleading aspect of categorizing countries as 'developed/developing' or 'industrialised/industrialising'. This classification indeed implies that developing countries have the potential to become industrialised, which is a fundamental premise of economic development theories and not misleading. Choices A, B, and D highlight the oversimplifications and inaccuracies that can arise from such binary categorizations.

Placing Countries into Two Broad Categories Such as 'Developed/developing' or 'Industrialised/industrialising