Which of the following country did Not suffer from increased poverty from debt and financial crises in the 1990s ?

Related Mcqs:

1. The Human Development Report 2003, which assumes that poverty is multidimensional calculates a human poverty index based on which of the following measures of deprivation ?

   I- probability at birth of not surviving to age 40
   II- adult illiteracy rate
   III- negative economic growth
   IV- lack of a decent standard of living

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

2. What is National debt or public debt ?

   A. State’s borrowing from its population
   B. State’s borrowing from foreign government
   C. state’s borrowing from international institution
   D. All of these

3. Assume that Country A is relatively abundant in labor and Country B is relatively abundant in land Note that wages are the returns to labor and rents are the returns to land According to the factor price equalization theorem, once Country A begins specializing according to comparative advantage and trading with Country B: A. wages and rents should fall in Country A B. wages and rents should rise in Country A C. wages should rise and rents should fall in Country A D. wages should fall and rents should raise in Country A ?

   XA. wages and rents should fall in Country A
   B. wages and rents should rise in Country A
   C. wages should rise and rents should fall in Country A
   D. wages should fall and rents should raise in Country A

4. Name a default on debt and obligations by a major financial institution that disrupts the stability of the economic system ?

   A. Debt blast
   B. Debt bomb
   C. Bad debt
   D. None of them

5. During the 1980s and 1990s a period of economic conservative governments in much of West and Japan, a leading approach among development economists was ?

   A. neoclassicism
   B. Marxism
   C. Rostow’s model
   D. classical appraoch

6. Which statement best explains China’s economic shift towards capitalism in the 1980s and early 1990s ?

   A. China’s economic policies were directly influenced by the success of the Soviet economic System
   B. The Tiananmen Square massacre resulted in Major economic reforms in China
   C. The success of the Cultural Revolution resulted in the increased westernization of china
   D. communist economic policies were not meeting the needs of the society

7. During the 1980s and 1990s the economic policies of China, supported by Deng Xiaoping have led directly to______________??

   A. an expansion of China’s colonial empire
   B. an increase in trade with the West
   C. a return to a strict command economy
   D. the success of the commune system

8. Which of the following groups suffer the most from inflation ?

   A. Debtors
   B. Creditors
   C. Business class
   D. None of these

9. Which of the following factors potentially increased the vulnerability to the 1997 Asian financial and currency crisis ?

   A. trade account surplus
   B. massive reverse outflows of capital
   C. technological transfer from DCs
   D. Symmetric informational in financial market

10. If there is an increase in the price of apples which causes consumers to purchase fewer kilograms of apples and more kilograms of oranges, the CPI will suffer from ?

    A. none of these answers
    B. substitution bias
    C. base year bias
    D. bias due to unmeasured quality change
    E. bias due to the introduction of new goods.