A. Public investment in education
B. Innovation and the application of new technology
C. The phase of the lunar cycle
D. Private investment in new physical caital
Related Mcqs:
- A combined measure of productivity that takes account of both labor and capital productivity is known as ?
A. total exploitation
B. labour/capital productivity
C. total factor productivity
D. total productivity - Identify below what is NOT considered to be a cause of economic growth ?
A. An increase in the quantity of labor and capital
B. An increase in labor productivity
C. An increase in the money supply
D. An increase in technology - Identify below those who are not stakeholders in a company ?
A. Owners
B. Customers
C. Employees
D. None of the above - Policies to encourage productivity do not include ?
A. building more retail outlets
B. encouraging risk-taking
C. encouraging innovation
D. encouraging R & D - Governments can stimulate productivity by ?
A. Imposing higher taxes on capital
B. encouraging more labour intensive work to reduce unemployment
C. reducing spending in education
D. encouraging private investment - Under a system of floating exchange rates relatively low productivity and high inflation rates in the United States results in a (an) ?
A. increase in the demand for foreign currency a decrease in the supply of foreign currency and a depreciation in the dollar
B. increase in the demand for foreign currency an increase in the supply of foreign currency and a appreciation in the dollar
C. decrease in the demand for foreign currency a decrease in the supply of foreign currency and a depreciation in the dollar
D. decrease in the demand for foreign currency and increase in the supply of foreign currency and a appreciation in the dollar - Under a system of floating exchange rates relatively high productivity and low inflation rates in the United States results in a (an) ?
A. increase in the demand for foreign currency a decrease in the supply of foreign currency and a depreciation in the dollar
B. increase in the demand for foreign currency an increase in the supply of foreign currency and a appreciation in the dollar
C. decrease in the demand for foreign currency a decrease in the supply of foreign currency and a depreciation in the dollar
D. decrease in the demand for foreign currency an increase in the supply of foreign currency and a appreciation in the dollar - Gunnar Myrdal argues that a major barrier to high labor productivity is ?
A. due to a lack of education
B. a class system in which the elite are contemptuous of manual work
C. upper-and middle-class westerners
D. The lack of bargaining power y cheap labor - Which of the following expenditures to enhance productivity is most likely to emit a positive externality ?
A. Megabank buys a new computer
B. Naila pays her university tuition fees.
C. OGDC leases a new oil field
D. Indus Motors buys a new drill press - Which of the following statements regarding the impact of population growth on productivity is true ?
A. There is no evidence, yet that rapid population growth stretches natural resources to the point that it limits growth in productivity
B. All of these answers
C. Rapid population growth may dilute the capital stock lowering productivity
D. Rapid population growth may promote technological progress increasing productivity.
