About _________ of the World’s population lives in LDCs?

A. 80%
B. 50%
C. 25%
D. 35%

Malthus’s theory was that population ?

A. Increased proportionally to economic growth
B. Increased geometrically, outstripping food supply which grew arithmetically
C. Increased stagnantly with food supply and economic development
D. Increased disproportionately surpassing agricultural production

In 2000, China and India constituted about _________ of the world’s population?

A. 40%
B. 10%
C. 80%
D. 0.10%

Which of the following is not a possible cost of high fertility rates and rapid population growth ?

A. Increasing returns to natural resources with a direct impact on average food consumption
B. Increased urbanization and congestion
C. A higher labor force growth rate and higher unemployment
D. A working population that must support a large number of dependents

A period of rapid population growth between a preindustrial stable population characterized by high birth and death rates and a later modern, stable population marked by low fertility and mortality is known as ?

A. Demographic transition
B. Population maturity
C. Demobilizing population
D. Birth-death transformation

Throughout most of humankind’s existence, population grew at a rate of ________ per year?

A. 10%
B. 0.002%
C. 2%
D. 0.5%

Sen’s welfare theory relies on ?

A. Individuals’ accomplishments
B. Individuals’ capabilities
C. Individuals’ wealth
D. Individuals’ education

Income inequalities are often shown on a ?

A. Production possibility curve
B. Marginal inequality curve
C. Sen curve
D. Lorenz curve

The elasticity of propoor growth is ?

A. The percentage increase in the consumption growth of the poor divided by percentage increase in the consumption growth of the nonpoor
B. The percentage increase in the poor times percentage increase in the nonpoor
C. The percentage increase in the poverty of the poor divided by percentage increase in the poverty of the nonpoor
D. The percentage increase in the poor people in the urban divided by percentage increase in the nonpoor in the urban

Peer borrowing groups of five or so people with joit liability approve loans to other members as a substitute for the bank’s screening process The above statement applies to ?

A. Indonesia’s badan kredit kecamatan (bkk)
B. The association for development of microenterprice
C. Bangladesh’s grameen bank
D. The enterprice credit program in kolkata