A country’s capital stock is the ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Assume that Country A is relatively abundant in labor and Country B is relatively abundant in land Note that wages are the returns to labor and rents are the returns to land According to the factor price equalization theorem, once Country A begins specializing according to comparative advantage and trading with Country B: A. wages and rents should fall in Country A B. wages and rents should rise in Country A C. wages should rise and rents should fall in Country A D. wages should fall and rents should raise in Country A ?

   XA. wages and rents should fall in Country A
   B. wages and rents should rise in Country A
   C. wages should rise and rents should fall in Country A
   D. wages should fall and rents should raise in Country A

2. Simon S.Kuznets argues that the major stock of an economically advanced country is not its physical capital but ?

   A. natural resources
   B. body of knowledge
   C. land
   D. quantity of labor

3. Suppose that the world price of tin is above the target (ceiling) price that is defined by an international commodity agreement. To move the world price toward the target price, a buffer stock agreement would require its buffer stock manager to ____ tin and an export quota agreement would require that member countries _________ their export of tin?

   A. purchase; decrease
   B. purchase; increase
   C. sell; increase
   D. sell; decrease

4. What is meant by capital stock ___________?

   A. Authorized amount of stock for issue by corporation
   B. The total stated or par value of the permanently invested capital of corporation
   C. Both of them
   D. None of them

5. The idea that suggests that poverty is self-perpetuating because poor nations are unable to save and invest enough to accumulate the capital stock that would help them grow is ?

   A. the vicious circle of poverty hypothesis
   B. the dependency theory
   C. neo-colonialism
   D. the under-consumptionist hypothesis

6. When capital is owned by the firm as opposed to being directly owned by household capital income may take any of the following forms except ?

   A. interest
   B. dividends
   C. increases in stocks of goods
   D. retained earnings

7. The sum of total income received for the services of labor, land or capital in a country is called?

   A. Gross domestic product
   B. National income
   C. Gross domestic income
   D. Gross national income

8. Mention the term which is used for the large-scale removal of individual and corporate investment capital and income from a country ?

   A. Money flight
   B. Capital drain
   C. Free flow
   D. Capital flight

9. Which of the following country did not experience large capital flights from 1976 to 1984 ?

   A. Argentina
   B. Venezuela
   C. Mexico
   D. Canada

10. I = S + F The equation above states that a country can increase its new capital formation (or investment) through is ?

    A. own domestic savings and by inflows of capital from abroad
    B. stock market and fiscal policy
    C. savings from abroad and financial outflow
    D. savings and financial liberalization