Chapter 18: Q. 18.2LO (page 397)
Understand why the existence of dead capital retards economic growth?
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By increasingthe number ofworking class increase will help in producing more output.
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Chapter 18: Q. 18.2LO (page 397)
Understand why the existence of dead capital retards economic growth?
By increasingthe number ofworking class increase will help in producing more output.
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The annual rate of growth of real GDP in a developing nation is percent. Initially, the country's population was stable from year to year. Recently, however, a significant increase in the nation's birthrate has raised the annual rate of population growth to percent.
a. What was the rate of growth of per capita real GDP before the increase in population growth?
b. If the rate of growth of real GDP remains unchanged, what is the new rate of growth of per capita real GDP following the increase in the birthrate?
Explain why population growth can have uncertain effects on economic growth.
Consider Table 18-1. Based on the basic arithmetic of economic growth, what were the average annual rates of real GDP growth since 1990 for those nations experiencing positive rates of annual growth of per capita real GDP?
Assume that each billion in net capital investment generates percentage point of the average percentage rate of growth of per capita real GDP, given the nation's labor resources. Firms have been investing exactly billion in capital goods each year, so the annual average rate of growth of per capita real GDP has been percent. Now a government that fails to consistently adhere to the rule of law has come to power, and firms must pay million in bribes to gain official approval for every billion in investment in capital goods. In response, companies cut back their total investment spending to billion per year. If other things are equal and companies maintain this rate of investment, what will be the nation's new average annual rate of growth of per capita real GDP?
For each of the following situations, explain which of the policy issues discussed in this chapter relates to the stance the institution has taken.
a. The World Bank offers to make a loan to a company in an impoverished nation at a lower interest rate than the company had been about to agree to pay to borrow the same amount from a group of private banks.
b. The World Bank makes a loan to a company in a developing nation that has not yet received formal approval to operate there, even though the government approval process typically takes months.
c. The IMF extends a loan to a developing nation's government, with no preconditions, to enable the government to make already overdue payments on a loan it had previously received from the World Bank.
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