According to Human Development Report 2003, about ________ countries were poorer in 2003 than in 1990?

Related Mcqs:

1. The Human Development Report 2003, which assumes that poverty is multidimensional calculates a human poverty index based on which of the following measures of deprivation ?

   I- probability at birth of not surviving to age 40
   II- adult illiteracy rate
   III- negative economic growth
   IV- lack of a decent standard of living

   A. I and II only
   B. III and IV only
   C. I, II and III only
   D. I, II and IV

2. In 1990, during the Persian Gulf War, the U.S government extended generous terms to two middle-income countries by canceling or reducing their debt The two countries were ?

   A. Iraq and Iran
   B. Egypt and Poland
   C. Pakistan and Afghanistan
   D. Saudi Arabia and Jordan

3. In 2003, the UN Development Program estimated that a 1-percent LDC per capita consumption growth, with income inequality unchanging, would reduce the poverty percentage by _________ percent yearly?

   A. 0
   B. 2
   C. 6
   D. 0.5

4. The pattern of economic growth describes the phenomenon of countries moving up in technological development by following the patterns of countries ahead of them in the development process ?

   A. flying geese
   B. import substitution
   C. export orientation
   D. commodity expansion

5. Which countries terms of trade improved between 1990 and 2000 ?

   A. Mexico and Denmark
   B. Sweden and Denmark
   C. Sweden and Spain
   D. Mexico and Sweden

6. An export quota agreement to stabilize the price of bauxite tends to be more successful when the member producer countries as a percentage of the world’s producer countries is __________ and the _________ it is for the member producer countries to store/stock pile bauxite?

   A. relatively small; more difficult
   B. relatively small; easier
   C. relatively large; more difficult
   D. relatively large; easier

7. The Montreal Protocal, signed in 1987 and strengthened in 1990 ?

   A. attains the global optimal level of common property resource
   B. relies on internationally tradable emission permits
   C. minimizes free riders of public goods
   D. reduces ozone depletion through the cutting of chlorofluorocarbon production

8. In 1989, the CPI was 124.0 in 1990, it was 130.7 What was the rate of inflation over this period ?

   A. 5.4 percent
   B. 30.7 percent
   C. You can’t tell without knowing the base year
   D. 5.1 percent

9. Between 1990 and 1999 car ownership per thousand of the population fell in ?

   A. Spain
   B. Belgium
   C. USA
   D. UK

10. ________ is said to exist when the formation of a regional trading group leads to the reduction of trade with nonmember countries in favor of member countries ?

    A. trade creation
    B. trade diversion
    C. trade exclusion
    D. trade distortion