A. Labor is often underemployed, having a low alternative cost
B. It is cheaper to hire labor in LDC because its productivity is relatively higher than in DCs
C. Adapting existing Western technology to LDC conditions requires little creativity
D. Labor is usually considered the scarce factor
Capital Formation, Investment Choice, Information Technology, And Technical Progress
Suppose a project results in a net stream of $200 per year for 4 years, but nothing thereafter, Assume that the discount rate is 5 percent. The discounted value of the total income stream over the 4-year period is ?
A. 800
B. 40,000
C. more than zero but less than 800
D. less than zero
Lack of absorptive capacity in developing countries results from ?
A. inadequate government bureaucracy
B. small size of infrastructure
C. too few innovative entrepreneurs
D. unsuitable technology
E. All of the above are correct
Market price adjusted to consider differences between social cost-benefit and private cost-benefit calculations are ?
A. price distortions
B. consumer surplus
C. shadow prices
D. exchange rates
Canada France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The United Kingdom and United States are ?
A. G-7 countries
B. countries with highest productivity growth in the world since 1960
C. countries with decreasing TFP growth since 1990s
D. countries with the lowest information technology equipment and software index prices
In the 1980s economists studying the source of growth observed no positive relationship between information and communications technology (ICT) investments and productivity This is known as ?
A. Solow residual
B. productivity paradox
C. technological followership
D. Stieglitz discrepancies
he efficiency wage is the ?
A. wage costs per unit of output
B. wage rate that prevails in LDCs
C. Wage rate divided by the productivity of labor
D. marginal product of labor divided by wage
Vaccinating people for measles, rubella, polio and cholera to substantially increase net social benefits by improving the health and productivity of the population is an example of ?
A. economies of scale
B. external economies
C. negative externality
D. net present value
Which of the following is not True ?
A. In 1990 the world had 98 mainline phones and 2 mobile phones per 1,000 people: in 2001 169 mainline and 153 mobiles per 1000
B. Mobile phones do not require the massive infrastructure investment that mainline telephone require
C. In 2001 the World information technology expenditures were about 1/20 of 1% of world gross investment
D. In 2001 internet users per 1000 people in middle income countries were greater than high income countries
Which of the following is not a nature public monopoly ?
A. mobile phone
B. electricity
C. water supply
D. postal service
