Planning in many LDCs has failed because detailed programs for the public sector have not been worked out and ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Central banks in LDCs generally have less effect on expenditure and output than in LDCs because of ?

   I- an externally dependent banking system
   II- a poorly developed securities market
   III- a low percentage of demand deposits divided by the total money supply
   IV- the relative insensitivity of investment and employment to monetary policies

   A. I and II only
   B. III and IV only
   C. I, II and III only
   D. I, II , III and IV

2. A state planning ideology arose in LDCs as a reaction to nationalist perceptions of ?

   A. Keeping balanced budget, a price target
   B. slow economic growth under colonial capitalism
   C. minimizing public spending in the rural areas
   D. western countries, nation-state ideology

3. Micheal Roemer’s three-sector model shows that growth in the booming export sector I- reduces the price of foreign exchange II- retards other sectors’ growth by reducing incentives to export other commodities III- reduces incentives to replace domestic goods for imports IV- raises factor and input prices for non-booming sectors ?

   A. I and III only
   B. II and III only
   C. I, II and III only
   D. I, II , III only IV

4. Organized family-planning programs and the demand for birth control resulting from urbanization, modernization, economic development and increased education have contributed to ?

   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

5. Which of the following is not a public policy to promote the private sector ?

   A. Investigating development potential through scientific and market research and natural resources surveys
   B. Providing adequate infrastructure for public and private agencies
   C. Creating markets, including commodity markets, security exchanges, banks credit facilities and insurance companies
   D. Increasing market monopolies and oligopolies to help producers

6. The public sector includes ?

   A. Investors owning companies
   B. Government ownership of assets
   C. Market forces of supply and demand
   D. All trade via barter

7. What is comprised by public sector ?

   A. Public corporations
   B. Central and local government.
   C. Nationalized industries
   D. All of them

8. What is public sector ?

   A. Public corporations
   B. Central and local government
   C. Nationalized Industries
   D. All of them

9. The biggest Industrial unit in public sector is ?

   A. Karachi Shipyard
   B. Pakistan Steel Mili
   C. State Cement
   D. Telephone Industry of Pakistan

10. The public Sector Net Cash Requirement (PSNCR) is ?

    A. A measure of the country’s trade position
    B. A measure of the country’s budget position
    C. A measure of the country’s total debt
    D. A measure of the government’s monetary stance