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education health and human capital MCQs

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education health and human capital Mcqs
1. Which of the following is True about HIV/AIDS ?
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A. Women comprised 58 percent of HIV-positive adults in the Sub-Sahara

B. AIDs infection rates in Africa are highest among urban high

C. - in 2001 40 million people with HIV/AIDS lived in sub-Saharan Africa

D. Since 1981 120 million people have died of AIDS

2. Which of the following is NOT true about child mortality ?
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A. World-wide child mortality rates increased from 1990 to 2002

B. About 18 percent of the worlds deaths are among children less than five years old

C. More than 98 percent of child deaths were in LDCs

D. 19 of the 20 countries with the highest child mortality were in Africa

3. The emigration of highly-skilled people from the developing countries is known as ?
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A. productivity

B. human capital deterioration

C. labor degradation

D. The brain drain
4. In a competitive economy, a worker earns an income equivalent to ?
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A. The substitutability of labor to capital

B. Marginal Product

C. The amount of brain drain

D. Marginal utility

5. Gunnar Myrdal argues that a major barrier to high labor productivity is ?
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A. upper-and middle-class westerners

B. a class system in which the elite are contemptuous of manual work

C. The lack of bargaining power y cheap labor

D. due to a lack of education

6. Which of the following is not true ?
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A. Development generally improves the health system while better health increases productivity social cohesion, and economic welfare

B. Life expectancy is probably the best single indicator of national health levels

C. There are growing inequalities in investment in health worldwide

D. Life expectancy in Africa increased steadily from 1994 to 2003 due to better health care
7. Of the 57 million people dying worldwide in 2002, _____ were from stroke and heart disease and ________ from cancer disproportionately from DCs?
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A. 7 million, 0.7 million

B. 17 million, 7 million

C. 3 million, 1 million

D. 0.5 million, 5 million

8. By 2010 the U.S Census Bureau expects life expectancy in the tow southern African countries of Botswana and South Africa to be ?
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A. 70 years, an increase from 1995

B. 50 to 60 years, about the same as in 1995

C. 30 to 40 years, about the same as in 1995

D. 30 to 40 years, a fall of more than 10 years from 1995
9. Simon S.Kuznets argues that the major stock of an economically advanced country is not its physical capital but ?
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A. quantity of labor

B. natural resources

C. body of knowledge

D. land

10. In 2000, the Economist estimated that only _________ of some 360 million internet users were in Africa ?
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A. million

B. 3 million

C. 10 million

D. 60 million

11. The disease burden could be measured by calculating _________ combining years lost through premature death and from living with disability?
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A. mortality-adjusted lifelong

B. life mortality-fertility ratio

C. premature living age

D. disability-adjusted life years
12. Which of the following is Not True about education in LDCs ?
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A. Boys are sent to schools far more often than girls

B. Economists unanimously agree that LDCs should put greater priority on primary education

C. Public expenditure per student for higher education is about ten times as high as for primary education

D. The expansion of primary education redistributes benefits from the rich to the poor

13. Labor productivity is higher in DCs such as Japan and Germany than LDCs due to ?
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A. high formal education and training

B. better health and physical condition of the labor force

C. Both a and b are correct

D. None of the above is correct

14. The marginal product model assumes that ?
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A. education persons migrate more

B. capital and unskilled labor are complements

C. individuals pay the full cost of their education

D. government subsidizes schooling