Category: Natural Resources and the Environment Toward Sustainable Development

If a cobbler buys leather for Rs100 and thread for Rs50 and uses them to produce and sell Rs500 worth of shoes to consumers the contribution to GDP is ?

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A. Rs50
B. Rs100
C. Rs650
D. Rs500

Negative externality is also known as ?

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A. external diseconomies
B. marginal damage
C. public goods
D. resource curse

An example of a transfer payment is ?

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A. Profit
B. rent
C. unemployment benefits
D. government purchases
E. wages

The Genuine Progress indicator is ?

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A. also known as index of Sustainable Economic Welfare per capita
B. GDP plus resource depletion and environmental cost
C. resource depletion and environmental cost divided by GDP per capita
D. increasing from 1976 to 2000

GDP would include which of the following ?

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A. the value of taking a day off from work
B. consulting services
C. intermediate sales
D. illegal drug sales
E. housework

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 ?

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

Progress that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs is ?

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A. the tragedy of commons
B. sustainable development
C. net primary productivity (NPP)
D. the impossibility theorem

The Club of Rome Study, The Limits to Growth suggests that as natural resources diminish ?

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A. capital increasingly replaces labor
B. technological change compensates for capital depletion
C. costs rise, leaving less capital for future investment
D. contingent valuation becomes critical

Real GDP is measured in __ prices while nominal GDP is measured in _ prices?

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A. foreign; domestic
B. current year; base year
C. domestic; foreign
D. base year; current year
E. intermediate; final

Many environmental resources are public goods, which are characterized by ?

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A. rivalry and exclusion in consumption
B. nonrivalry and nonexclusion in consumption
C. rivalry but nonexclusion in production
D. nonrivalry but exclusion in usage