Governments can stimulate productivity by ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. Takatoshi Ito (1992) contends that parliamentary governments manipulate the timing of _____ while presidential governments manipulate the timing of _____?

   A. monetary policy, fiscal policy
   B. elections; economics policies
   C. economic policies; political policies
   D. tax collection, tax implementation

3. How is termed the economic theories or Maynard Keynes especially those which advocate government monetary and fiscal and stimulate business activity ?

   A. Market Economy
   B. Harvard Group
   C. Keynesian
   D. London Group

4. When supply exceeds demand, sellers must lower prices to stimulate sales, when demand exceeds supply, prices increase as buyers compete to buy goods. What this theory is called in economics?

   A. Cost push theory
   B. Supply and Demand theory
   C. Fundamental theory
   D. Ricardo’s theory

5. If a company (considering its options on the product/market expansion grid) chooses to move into different unrelated fields (from what it ha ever done before) with new products as a means to stimulate growth the company would be following which of the following general strategies ?

   A. market penetrations
   B. market development
   C. product development
   D. diversification

6. Policies to encourage productivity do not include ?

   A. building more retail outlets
   B. encouraging risk-taking
   C. encouraging innovation
   D. encouraging R & D

7. Identify below what does NOT affect productivity ?

   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

8. An increase in productivity should ?

   A. Lead to a contraction of supply
   B. Lead to an expansion of supply
   C. Lead to a shift in supply outwards (i.e more supplied at each and every price)
   D. Lead to a higher equilibrium and lower equilibrium quantity

9. 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

10. 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