A. mechanization
B. land reform
C. import substitution
D. produce marketing boards
Related Mcqs:
- Low agricultural productivity in developing countries is mainly caused by ?
A. shortages of inputs including land
B. an over-investment in farm equipment
C. migration from rural areas to urban areas
D. a lack of effective demand for food products - 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 - Developing countries that concentrate production in agricultural products or raw materials may face a long-run decline in their international terms of trade because of ?
A. inelastic demand for these products in advanced countries
B. large increases in the supplies of these products on world markets because of export expansion policies
C. sluggish demand for these products in advanced countries
D. All of the above - 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 - Which industrialization policy have developing countries used which places emphasis on the comparative advantage principle as a guide to resource allocation ?
A. export promotion
B. import promotion
C. international commodity agreements
D. multilateral contracts - 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 - The main reason why land reform increase agricultural output is that is ?
A. encourages mechanization
B. allows the farmers to set the prices for their agricultural products
C. enables farmers to escape the problem of diminishing return
D. makes farmers owners of the land instead of tenants and owners’ farmers are more productive than tenant farmers - The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union has ?
A. increase American farm exports to the EU
B. decrease American farm exports to the EU
C. lowered the price of American farm exports to the EU
D. not affected the price of American farm exports to the EU - Under the Common Agricultural Policy exports of any surplus quantities EU produce are encouraged through the usage of ?
A. variable levies
B. export subsidies
C. trigger prices
D. countertrade - Under the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, a variable import levy equals the ?
A. amount the which the EU’s support price exceeds the world price
B. amount by which the world price exceeds the EU’s support price
C. support price of the EU
D. world price
