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ECON 366 Development Economics Final Exam REVIEWCOMPLETE Athabasca University
The level of income per capita - Countries tend to be classified as more or less
developed based on
All of the above - Development economics is the study of
Transformation of social institutions is necessary for development - Development
economics must have a scope wider than traditional economics becase
Life expectancy at birth - One of the components of the human development
index (HDI) is
Purchasing power parity income levels - Which measure uses a common set of
international prices for all goods and services produced?
2 billion - About how many people lack access to basic sanitation?
None of the above - Conditions of today's developed countries at the start of their
industrialization differ from conditions in the developing world in that
,All of the above are not used by the World Bank - Which of the following is not an
indicator that is used by World Bank in the measuring of the level of economic
development?
Infant mortality rate
(indicators are: avg. life expectancy, avg. years of schooling (adults and children),
and the real GDP per capita) - Which of the following is not an indicator that is
used to compute the HDI?
Per capita income - Developing countries are starting to converge with developed
countries in the long run in what respect?
Surplus labor in the rural sector - Which of the following is an assumption of the
Lewis two-sector model?
All of the above - Which of the following is a criticism of the neoclassical counter-
revolution school's approach?
A shift from agriculture to industry and services - According to the theory of
structural patterns of development, which of the following tends to occur as a
country develops?
Center-periphery - International dependence theories distinguish between two
groups of countries known as
,A necessary but not a sufficient condition - The linear stages theory of economic
growth fails to recognize that increased investment is
Multiple equilibria - The S-Curve is used to illustrate
There are external economies from public or private investments - In endogenous
growth models, it is assumed that
All of the above - In contrast to the earlier neoclassical models of economic
growth, in endogenous growth models, there is more emphasis on
The factors that determine the size of the Solow Residual - The new growth
theory attempts to explain
Pecuniary externalities. - The big-push theory argues that coordination failures
may arise because of
Skill complementarities - The O-ring theory places emphasis on
None of the above - The absolute poverty line
The level of relative inequality - The Gini coefficient provides a measure of
, Suggests that inequality will worsen and then improve as a country grows -
Kuznets' inverted-U hypothesis
All of the above - Higher income countries tend to have lower levels of absolute
poverty because
All of the above - Which of the following groups are more likely to be poor?
Size - Distribution of income according to percentiles, such as the highest 40% or
lowest 20% is known as the _____ distribution of income.
Relatively higher Gini coefficients - Developing countries who have adopted
capital-intensive technologies tend to have
None of the above - Assuming that the Gini coefficient for Egypt is 0.403 and
Australia's is 0.404, it is possible to conclude that they both have
Percentage of a country's total consumption necessary to bring everyone in the
country below the poverty line up to the line - The poverty gap is the
The factors of production (land, labor, and capital) - The functional distribution of
income refers to the distribution of income between
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