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Which of the following colonial policy contribute further to today’s agricultural underdevelopment in Africa ?

Economics Mcqs, Rural Poverty and Agricultural Transformation /
Which of the following colonial policy contribute further to today’s agricultural underdevelopment in Africa ?

I. Colonial governments compelled farmers to grow selected crops
II. Colonialism often changed traditional land tenure systems from individual control to communal
III. Colonialists failed to train African agricultural scientists and managers
IV. Research and development concentrated on food production and small farmers and herders.
A. I and II only
B. I and III only
C. III and IV only
D. II and III only

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Economics Mcqs, Rural Poverty and Agricultural Transformation

Which index combines measures of calorie availability (in relation to requirement) the growth of per capita daily energy supply food production food staples self-sufficiency, and variability of food production and consumption ?

Economics Mcqs, Rural Poverty and Agricultural Transformation /
Which index combines measures of calorie availability (in relation to requirement) the growth of per capita daily energy supply food production food staples self-sufficiency, and variability of food production and consumption ?

A. food sufficiency index
B. food security index
C. food self-intake index
D. food growth index

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Economics Mcqs, Rural Poverty and Agricultural Transformation

Which of the following is not a major factor raising LDC agricultural labor productivity ?

Economics Mcqs, Rural Poverty and Agricultural Transformation /
Which of the following is not a major factor raising LDC agricultural labor productivity ?

A. new biological chemical mechanical inputs in production
B. new technical and organizational knowledge from greater specialization
C. expanded markets for agricultural output
D. massive government intervention

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Economics Mcqs, Rural Poverty and Agricultural Transformation

Which scholar argues the following Plantations have no significant advantage over peasants [for] crops for which centralized processing and marketing are not necessary Cocoa and coconuts are typical examples of a lack of large scale economies Peasants can grow and process these crops in small lots with no large capital requirement beyond small indigenous tools and facilities ?

Economics Mcqs, Rural Poverty and Agricultural Transformation /
Which scholar argues the following Plantations have no significant advantage over peasants [for] crops for which centralized processing and marketing are not necessary Cocoa and coconuts are typical examples of a lack of large scale economies Peasants can grow and process these crops in small lots with no large capital requirement beyond small indigenous tools and facilities ?

A. Yujiro Hayami
B. Raanan Weitz
C. Hans Singer
D. Tim Dyson

Which scholar argues the following Plantations have no significant advantage over peasants [for] crops for which centralized processing and marketing are not necessary Cocoa and coconuts are typical examples of a lack of large scale economies Peasants can grow and process these crops in small lots with no large capital requirement beyond small indigenous tools and facilities ? Read More »

Economics Mcqs, Rural Poverty and Agricultural Transformation

Which of the following is not true about the specialized farm ?

Economics Mcqs, Rural Poverty and Agricultural Transformation /
Which of the following is not true about the specialized farm ?

A. Such a farm is the most advanced
B. Such a farm usually emphasizes
C. Such a farm is labor intensive
D. Such a farm uses advanced technology and takes advantage of economies of scale.

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Economics Mcqs, Rural Poverty and Agricultural Transformation

Which of the following is not true about most farmers in LDCs ?

Economics Mcqs, Rural Poverty and Agricultural Transformation /
Which of the following is not true about most farmers in LDCs ?

A. The staple crop is the chief sources of food
B. labor is underutilized except for planting and harvesting seasons
C. On the traditional farm, output is always greater than consumption
D. cultivators farm only as much land as their

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Economics Mcqs, Rural Poverty and Agricultural Transformation

According to the factor price equalization theorem, the ________ factor should oppose free. trade policies in any given country?

Economics Mcqs, Sources of Comparative Advantage /
According to the factor price equalization theorem, the ________ factor should oppose free. trade policies in any given country?

A. abundant
B. scarce
C. neither
D. can’t tell without more information

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Economics Mcqs, Sources of Comparative Advantage

By adjusting the model of comparative advantage to include transportation costs along with production costs we would expect ?

Economics Mcqs, Sources of Comparative Advantage /
By adjusting the model of comparative advantage to include transportation costs along with production costs we would expect ?

A. The prices of trade goods to be lower than when there are no transportation costs
B. specialization to stop when the production costs of the trading partners equalize
C. The volume of trade to be less than when there are no transportation costs
D. The gains from trade to be greater than when there are no transportation costs

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Economics Mcqs, Sources of Comparative Advantage

Advocates of industrial policy maintain that government should ?

Economics Mcqs, Sources of Comparative Advantage /
Advocates of industrial policy maintain that government should ?

A. pursue free trade as a policy that leads to maximum global efficiency
B. grant subsidies to firms offering potential comparative advantage
C. provide loans to domestic workers in exporting industries
D. increase interest rates on loans made to firms in import-competing industries

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Economics Mcqs, Sources of Comparative Advantage