A. Poverty rates
B. food security index
C. change in the quantity of food demanded per capita
D. population growth
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - If consumers always spend 15 percent of their income on food. then the income elasticity of demand for food is ?
A. 1.50
B. 1.15
C. none of these
D. 0.15
E. 1.00 - Suppose that at a price of Rs 30 per month there are 30000 subscribers to cable television in small Town. If small Town Cablevision raises its price Rs40 per month the number of subscribers will fall to 20000 Using the midpoint method for calculating the elasticity what is the price elasticity of demand for cable TV in Small Town ?
A. 1.4
B. 0.66
C. 0.75
D. 2.0 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - The kinked demand curve model of oligopoly assumes the elasticity of demand ?
A. in response to a price increase is less elastic than the elasticity of demand in response to a price decrease
B. is perfectly elastic if price increases and perfectly inelastic if price decreases
C. is constant regardless of whether price increase of decrease.
D. in response to a price increases is more elastic than the elasticity of demand in response to a price decrease - If demand is linear (a straight line) then price elasticity of demand is ?
A. elastic in the upper portion and inelastic in the lower portion
B. inelastic in the upper portion and elastic in the lower portion
C. inelastic throughout
D. constant along the demand curve - IF GNP per capita at constant prices for Liechtenstein a microstate of 29,000 people located on the Rhine River between Switzerland and Austri is US$555 and US$560 in 2011 and 2012 respectively, the real economic growth from 2011 to 2012 is ?
A. 5%
B. 0.901%
C. 0.090%
D. 0.991%
