The Scramble for Africa is referred to ... a. African leaders making treaties with European nations to support business expansion and modernize African countries.
b. European nations trying to spread their type of governments in Africa where people have protected rights..
c. competing imperialist nations trying to take over parts of Africa to gain resources necessary to make goods and find new markets to sell products.

d.) continue to rise rapidly

answer; /// i believe the correct answer is general act charters;

even though you have attached neither the chart nor the generalizations, i have located them online. the right answer is d, since they are asking you about a generalization. you can only infer from the chart that between 2008 and 2009 the number of employed workers decreased significantly (from over 115 millions to 107 millions approximately), which signals some type of economic crisis.  

for your question the answer would have to be france