The vicious circle of poverty refers to the fact that in LDCs,
a. low living standards lead to declines in population growth
b. consumption goods are preferred to capital goods
c. people are poor because land is scarce
d. there are too many older people
e. poverty leads to low investment in capital goods
E
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If a firm wants to borrow $10 million and the real interest rate increases from 5 percent to 6 percent, then the cost of the investment has increased by
A) $6 million per year. B) $100,000 per year. C) $1 million per year. D) $600,000 per year. E) nothing because the real interest rate is the return the firm will earn on its investment.
The price elasticity of supply of hot dog buns is estimated to be 1.5. Holding everything else constant, this means that a 10 percent decrease in the price of hot dog buns will cause the quantity of hot dog buns supplied to decrease by
A) approximately 25 percent. B) 1.5 percent. C) approximately 5 percent. D) 15 percent.