I. Colonial governments compelled farmers to grow selected crops
II. Colonialism often changed traditional land tenure systems from individual control to communal
III. Colonialists failed to train African agricultural scientists and managers
IV. Research and development concentrated on food production and small farmers and herders.
A. I and II only
B. I and III only
C. III and IV only
D. II and III only
Related Mcqs:
- What is Baran’s explanation for underdevelopment in Asia, Africa, and Latin America ?
A. monopolistic business from abroad
B. reactionary ruling coalitions
C. weak domestic middle class
D. All of the above - 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 - The policy that has been the most successful in increasing agricultural output in developing countries is ?
A. mechanization
B. land reform
C. import substitution
D. produce marketing boards - 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 - If a country’s policy makers were to continuously use expansionary monetary policy in an attempt to hold unemployment below the natural rate the long-run result would be ?
A. an increase in the level of output
B. a decrease in the unemployment rate
C. an increase in the rate of inflation
D. All of these answers - According to the Phillips curve, in the short run, if policy makers choose an expansionary policy to lower the rate of unemployment ?
A. The economy will experience an increase in inflation
B. The economy will experience a decrease in inflation
C. Inflation will be unaffected if price expectations are unchanging
D. None of these answers - Suppose a wave of investor and consumer optimisms has increased spending so that the current level of input exceeds the long-run natural rate If policy makers choose to engage in activist stabilization policy they should ?
A. decrease government spending Which the shifts the aggregate demand curve to the left
B. decrease taxes, which shifts the aggregate demand curve to the right
C. decrease taxes, which shifts the aggregate demand curve to the left
D. decrease government spending which shifts the aggregate demand curve to the right - In the early eighties, the Federal Reserve pursed a tight monetary policy. All else being equal. the impact of that policy was to interest rates in the United States relative to those in Europe and cause the dollar to _______ against European currencies?
A. decrease; depreciate
B. decrease; appreciate
C. increase; depreciate
D. increase; appreciate
