Theories of Economic Development Mcqs
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Theories of Economic Development Mcqs (Total Quiz: 23)
MCQ: Criticisms of Rostow’s stages of development include ?
- the difficulty of testing the stages scientifically
- conditions for takeoff are contradicted by historical evidence
- characteristics of one stage are not unique to that stage
- All of the above are correct
D
MCQ: The Ultimate effect of the invisible hand of Adam Smith is that in a competitive economy everyone ?
- benefits if each acts in his/her own interest
- will increase their profits in a free market
- should act to maximize economic growth
- should act to promote the public interest
A
MCQ: The Lawis model explains how growth gets started in a less developed economy ?
- with an average product of labor in agriculture that is negative
- with a downward-sloping supply curve of labor
- with a marginal productivity of labor zero or negligible in industry
- with a traditional agricultural sector and an industrial capitalist sector
D
MCQ: 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 countries
- I and II only
- II and III only
- I, II and III only
- I , II III and IV
C
MCQ: The synchronized application of capital to a wide range of different industries is called __________ by its advocates?
- balanced growth
- capitalization
- elasticity of capital
- indivisibilities
A
MCQ: Rostow’s economics stages are ?
- The preconditions for takeoff, the takeoff, the drive to maturity and the age of creative destruction
- The traditional society the preconditions for takeoff, the takeoff, the drive to maturity and the age of high mass consumption
- the preconditions for consumption the replication the drive to maturity and the age of high mass consumption
- the learning curve the age of high mass consumption post takeoff, and the drive to maturity
B
MCQ: Karl Marx’s historical materialism views were shaped by all of the following EXCEPT ?
- The French Revolution
- The rise of industrial and capitalist production
- Political and labor revolts
- a growing spiritual rationalism
D
MCQ: Which of the following was not a classical economist ?
- Adam Smith
- Thomas R. Malthus
- John Stuart Mill
- John Maynard Keynes
D
MCQ: During the 1980s and 1990s a period of economic conservative governments in much of West and Japan, a leading approach among development economists was ?
- neoclassicism
- Marxism
- Rostow’s model
- classical appraoch
A
MCQ: Surplus labor theories assume that ?
- LDCs are overpopulated
- labor contributes nothing to output in LDCs
- the marginal products of labor is closed to zero in LDCs
- urban unemployment is high in LDCs
C