Pathologies endemic to the Soviet bureaucracy included secrecy formalism cumbersome procedures rigidity and the tendency to concentrate on control rather than performance The party controlled The state by using the ____ the power to recommend and approve managers in administration and enterprises, of appointments and promotions to control access to government positions ?

Related Mcqs:

1. If the economy is in the expansionary phase of the business cycle, aggregate demand ____ unemployment ____ inflation ____ payments is likely to move towards ____?

   A. falls; rise; falls; surplus
   B. is static; low; rise; deficit;
   C. falls; falls; falls; surplus
   D. rise; falls; rises; deficit

2. Which of the following statement is NOT true about state owned enterprises (SOEs) ?

   A. SOEs perform better with competition
   B. Successful performing SOEs in Japan, Singapore and Sweden have greater managerial autonomy and accountability than other SOEs
   C. SOEs in South Korea and Sweden generally achieve inferior economic results to those in Ghana
   D. Financial autonomy is a major factor contributing to SOEs managerial effectiveness

3. State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are also called ?

   A. centralized firms
   B. government oligopolies
   C. market economies
   D. public enterprises

4. Automatic stabilisers act to ____ government expenditures and ____ government revenues during recessions ?

   A. increase: increase
   B. decrease; decrease
   C. increase; decrease
   D. decrease; increase

5. In 1979-80 China first created _____ for foreigners to set up enterprises hire labor and import duty-free goods for processing and re-exporting ?

   A. special economic zones
   B. liberalized trade monopoly zones
   C. Economic Union zones
   D. Communist free trade areas

6. The bank established for loans to very small enterprises in Pakistan is called_______________?

   A. Micro Finance Bank
   B. Moderba Bank
   C. SME- Bank
   D. First MINI Bank

7. According to Oskar Lange’s model socialist enterprises should produce where ?

   A. The monopoly profit maximization rule applies
   B. Product price equals marginal cost
   C. marginal revenue equals average cost
   D. total revenue equals total cost

8. Peer borrowing groups of five or so people with joit liability approve loans to other members as a substitute for the bank’s screening process The above statement applies to ?

   A. Indonesia’s Badan Kredit Kecamatan (BKK)
   B. the Association for Development of Microenterprice
   C. Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank
   D. the Enterprice credit program in Kolkata

9. Compared to what occurred under free trade, Mexico’s producer surplus ____ and consumer surplus ____ as a result of the subsidy Use the figure that you have plotted to calculate the amounts ?

   A. decreases, decreases
   B. decreases, increases
   C. increases, decreases
   D. increases, increases

10. If the economy is in the recessionary phase of the business cycle, aggregate demand ___ unemployment ____ inflation ___ and the current account of the balance of payments is likely to move towards ____?

    A. falls; falls; falls; surplus
    B. is static; low; rises; deficit
    C. falls; rises; falls; surplus
    D. rises; falls; rises; deficit