A. The Japanese government has place limits on Japanese exports
B. Japanese industries spend very little on the research and development of new products
C. The Japanese government and Japanese businesses have cooperated with each other
D. Japanese citizens save less of their incomes than the citizens of other industrialized nation do
Related Mcqs:
- Due to Japan’s high saving rate, suppose that the Japanese invest abroad. This investment may result in a/an _______ of the Japanese yen and therefore a for Japan?
A. appreciation; trade surplus
B. appreciation; trade deficit
C. depreciation; trade surplus
D. depreciation; trade deficit - Given recent information about growth trends and growth potential of ethnic populations within the U.S market which of the following ethnic groups would be a best bet to double during the next half century and become one of the U.S market’s most viable segments ?
A. Hispanics and Asians
B. African Americans
C. Western Europeans
D. Middle Eastern - Why has the growth of the German and Japanese economies after World War|| not been repeated in LDCs ?
A. low interest rates
B. political instability inhibits world-wide investment
C. human capital or technical skills were lacking
D. real domestic currency depreciation exists - 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 - 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 - In recent years, which factor has been major reason for the economic tensions between the United States and China ?
A. China’s trade deficit with the United States was very high
B. The United States refused to place quotas on Chinese goods
C. The United States imported more from China than it exported to China
D. China lowered tariffs on goods imported from the United States - The Harrod Domar growth model suggests that growth is ?
A. directly related to savings and inversely related to the capital/output ratio
B. directly related to the capital/output ratio and inversely related to savings
C. indirectly related to savings and the capital/output ratio
D. directly related to savings and the capital/output ratio - In food demand growth equation D = Φ + a E, a is the income elasticity of demand for food E is the per capita income growth and Φ is ?
A. Poverty rates
B. food security index
C. change in the quantity of food demanded per capita
D. population growth - Economics in India Pakistan the Philippines and Mexico argue the foodgrain growth would not have kept up with population growth in the last four decades without ?
I- improved packages of high-yielding seed varieties
II- fertilizers, pesticides and irrigation
III- improved transportation
IV better extension serviceA. I and III only
B. II and III only
C. I, II and III only
D. I, II, III and IV - 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
