A. mothers
B. infants
C. both a & b
D. not a nor b
Related Mcqs:
- A period of rapid population growth between a preindustrial stable population characterized by high birth and death rates and a later modern, stable population marked by low fertility and mortality is known as ?
A. demographic transition
B. population maturity
C. demobilizing population
D. birth-death transformation - The motive for holding money that encourages investors to hold bonds when interest rates are low, with the hope of selling them when interest rates are high, is the ?
A. Transactions motive
B. precautionary motive
C. profit motive
D. speculation motive - Under a system of floating exchange rates relatively low productivity and high 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 and increase in the supply of foreign currency and a appreciation in the dollar - 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 - Infant mortality ?
A. is defined as the annual number of deaths of infant under 1 year old per 1,000 live births
B. reflects the availability of primary education the rights of employments and social security
C. is life expectancy up to age 3
D. reflects the availability of hospitals and childcare facilities and the parents wealth - Which of the following is NOT true about child mortality ?
A. About 18 percent of the world’s deaths are among children less than five years old
B. More than 98 percent of child deaths were in LDCs
C. World-wide child mortality rates increased from 1990 to 2002
D. 19 of the 20 countries with the highest child mortality were in Africa - Under floating exchange rates, expectations of higher interest rates are likely to cause an ____ of the exchange rate?
A. depreciation
B. appreciation
C. fall
D. devaluation - The theory of international exchange that holds that exchange rates adjust to offset differences in countries inflation rates in the ?
A. price feedback theory
B. trade feedback theory
C. J-curve theory
D. purchasing power parity theory - The difference between bid (buying) rates and ask (selling) rates is called the ?
A. profit
B. arbitrage
C. spread
D. forward transaction - Investor engage in _____ when they move funds into foreign currencies in order to take advantage to interest rates abroad that are higher than domestic interest rates ?
A. currency arbitrage
B. interest arbitrage
C. short positions
D. long positions
