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?

Related Mcqs:

1. In food demand growth equation D = Φ + a E, a is the income elasticity of demand for food E is the per capita income growth and Φ is ?

   A. Poverty rates
   B. food security index
   C. change in the quantity of food demanded per capita
   D. population growth

2. 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

3. Which two countries have enjoyed a real per capita growth rate of more than 7% yearly since the 1960s ?

   A. Ghana and Mexico
   B. Canada and the United States
   C. Sierra Leone and Nigeria
   D. Taiwan and South Korea

4. The World Bank’s GNP per capita classification for low income middle income and high income countries respectively is ?

   A. less than $900, $900-$9000 and more than $9000
   B. less than $5000, $5000-$15000 and more than $15000
   C. less than $100, $100-$1000 and more than $1000
   D. less than $5000, $5000-$150000 and more than $150000

5. How has the relative gap between GNP per capita for Western Europe and GNP per capita for African less-developed countries changed from the late nineteenth century to the present ?

   A. declined
   B. increased
   C. remained the same
   D. cannot be determined

6. Which index combines measures of calorie availability (in relation to requirement) the growth of per capita daily energy supply food production food staples self-sufficiency, and variability of food production and consumption ?

   A. food sufficiency index
   B. food security index
   C. food self-intake index
   D. food growth index

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

   A. 50
   B. 100
   C. 1000
   D. 5

8. Assume that the real income of developing Island increases from $120,000 to $160,000 from 2005 to 2006 while its population expands from 1000 to 1100 during the same period Real income per capita has increased by about ?

   A. $145
   B. $40,000
   C. $25
   D. $100

9. If the consumption of good by one person does not reduce the quantity available by others and nobody can be easily excluded from consumption, we are referring to a ?

   A. Private good
   B. merit good
   C. public good
   D. abundant good

10. For the United States suppose the annual interest rate on government securities equals 8 percent while the annual inflation rate equals 4 percent, For Switzerland the annual interest rate on government securities equal 10 percent while the annual inflation rate equals 7 percent the above variables would cause investment funds to flow from ?

    A. the United States to Switzerland causing the dollar to depreciate
    B. the United States to Switzerland causing the dollar to appreciate
    C. Switzerland to the United States causing the franc to depreciate
    D. Switzerland to the United States causing the franc to appreciate