The emigration of highly-skilled people from the developing countries is known as ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Tariff levels in advanced countries tend to be __________ tariff levels in developing countries?

   A. higher than
   B. equal to
   C. lower than
   D. there is no general pattern

2. A widely used indicator to differentiate developed countries from developing countries is ?

   A. international trade per capita
   B. real income per capital
   C. unemployment per capita
   D. calories per capita

3. Developing countries, if compared with other countries, have ?

   A. a lower rate of illiteracy
   B. a greater degree of equality in the income distribution
   C. a lower infant mortality rate
   D. a smaller percentage of the labor force in urban areas

4. What is the ratio of population density of developing countries to the population of developed countries ?

   A. 10
   B. 2
   C. no more than 1
   D. 20

5. To help developing nations strengthen their international competitiveness many industrial nations have granted non-reciprocal tariff reductions to developing nations under the ?

   A. international commodity agreements program
   B. multilateral contract program
   C. generalized system of preferences program
   D. export-led growth program

6. Economists have hypothesized that the widening gap between the wages of unskilled workers and skilled workers may be due to ?

   A. decrease in the demand for unskilled workers because of increases in technology and increases in international trade
   B. increase in the number of unskilled workers available due to immigration into the UK.
   C. decrease in the demand for unskilled workers are more poorly educated
   D. increase in the number of unskilled workers available because workers are more poorly educated

7. Skilled labor is relatively scarce because ?

   A. there are too few teachers
   B. too few student places in higher education
   C. it is costly to acquire human capital
   D. teachers’ salaries are too low

8. Highly-indebted poor countries (HIPCs) include________________?

   I- Bolivia
   II- Benin
   III- Uganda
   IV- Tanzania

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

9. An export quota agreement to stabilize the price of bauxite tends to be more successful when the member producer countries as a percentage of the world’s producer countries is __________ and the _________ it is for the member producer countries to store/stock pile bauxite?

   A. relatively small; more difficult
   B. relatively small; easier
   C. relatively large; more difficult
   D. relatively large; easier

10. Developing countries that emphasize the production of raw materials or agricultural goods may realize a long-run deterioration in the international terms of trade because of ?

    A. relatively low import tariffs maintained by advanced countries
    B. highly elastic demand for these products in advanced countries
    C. declines in the supplies of these products on world markets
    D. sluggish demand for these products in advanced countries