MCQs of Economics – Economic Development in Historical Perspective

How has the relative gap between GNP per capita for Western Europe and GNP per capita for African less-developed countries changed from the late nineteenth century to the present?

Keiretsu refers to:

Asian tigers or newly industrializing countries (NICs) of East and Southeast Asia include the following except

During the first twenty-five years after World War ||, industrialization in Korea and Taiwan benefited from the following except

The 1993 World Bank study entitled The East Asian Miracle (1993) identifies eight high performing Asian economies Which of the following is not one of them?

Korea’s keirestsu-like corporate conglomerates is known as

On what did the Russian Soviet development model of growth not depend?

More than seventy percent of the population of fast g: owers lives in:

Based on the 2010 population survey four of the five most populous countries include:

Why has modern economic growth mainly been in western countries?

Why has the growth of the German and Japanese economies after World War|| not been repeated in LDCs?

Which two countries have enjoyed a real per capita growth rate of more than 7% yearly since the 1960s?

Perestroika in the former Soviet Union refers to:

Two countries that still rely on the Soviet communist model of development are:

The bourgeoisie refers to:

ASEAN refers to the:

Based on Mankiw Romer and Weil (1992) with conditional convergence holding fertility rates, education and government spending as a share of GDP constant

The 1993 World Bank study entitled The East Asian Miracle identifies eight high performing Asian economies. Which of the following is not one of them?