A. a decline in fertility
B. The demographic transition from stage 3 to stage 2
C. increases in the ratio of labor to capital
D. an increase in the dependency ratio
Related Mcqs:
- Planning in many LDCs has failed because detailed programs for the public sector have not been worked out and ?
A. governments depend primarily on their colonial masters
B. excessive controls are used in the private sector
C. the brain drains cost government substantially
D. monopolies dominate in the agricultural sector - Mention the name for economic theory that the support of business that allows them to flourish will eventually benefit middle- and lower-income people in the form of increased economic activity and reduced unemployment?
A. End benefit
B. Trickle down
C. Free market
D. Capitalism - If two countries A and B are member of a currency union and there is a shift in consumer preferences away from the goods of country A and towards those of country B than which one of the following would help to offset the effect of the resulting changes in aggregate demand in A and B on inflation and unemployment in the tow countries ?
A. A high degree of labour mobility between the tow countries
B. An increase in government spending in country (A)
C. A depreciation in the foreign exchange value of the common currency
D. A low degree of capital mobility between the two countries - Unemployment resulting from changes in the pattern of demand or supply in the economy is called _______ unemployment?
A. regional
B. technological
C. structural
D. demand-deficient - A major dependency theorist Andre Gunder Frank Suggests that the following economic activities have contributed to underdevelopment:
I- Workers migrating from villages to foreign-dominated urban complexes
II- Forming an unskilled labor force to work in factories and mines and on plantations
III- Replacing indigenous enterprises with technologically more advanced global subsidiary companies
IV- Closing the economy to trade with and investment from, developed countriesA. I and II only
B. II and III only
C. I, II and III only
D. I , II III and IV - Which situation has contributed most recent Japanese economic growth ?
A. The Japanese government has place limits on Japanese exports
B. Japanese industries spend very little on the research and development of new products
C. The Japanese government and Japanese businesses have cooperated with each other
D. Japanese citizens save less of their incomes than the citizens of other industrialized nation do - Even through buying roles in the family change constantly the _________ has traditionally been the main purchasing agent for the family?
A. wife
B. husband
C. teenage children
D. grandparent - 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 - According to Supply-side economists. if taxes are cut so that people have an increased incentive to work and businesses have an increased incentive to invest ?
A. aggregate supply will increase will increase aggregate demand will decrease and the price level will decrease
B. aggregate supply will increase will increase aggregate output will increase and the price level will decrease
C. aggregate supply will increase will increase aggregate output will increase and the price level will increase
D. both aggregate supply and demand will increase will increase and the price level will increase - According to supply-side economists if taxes are cut so that people have an increased incentive to work and businesses have an increased incentive to invest ?
A. aggregate supply will increase , aggregate demand will decrease
B. aggregate supply will increase, aggregate output will increase and the price level will decrease
C. aggregate supply will increase aggregate output will increase and the price level will increase
D. both aggregate supply and demand will increase and the price level will increase