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How is climate change expected to impact countries in Asia and Africa? What policies in developed and developing countries may help address these problems?
What are the main ideas of environmental accounting? If practiced, what effects would you expect to see?
What are common property resources; what economic incentive problems do they face; and how have some communities successfully overcome these problems?
List and explain some of the major reasons for plan failures. Which reasons do you think are the most important? Explain your thinking.
Briefly summarize the range of commercial policies available to developing countries, and explain why some of these policies might be adopted.
What is the significance of the debt service ratio? Can indebted countries do anything to lower this ratio? Explain your answer.
What are private portfolio flows? What factors do you believe are most important in determining the amount and direction of such flows?
What are the principal sources of government revenues in developing countries? Why are many taxes so difficult to collect? Discuss.
For example, during a recession, which would you suggest would have the greater overall effect on the economy?
Why is economics central to an understanding of the problems of development? Is the concept of the developing world a useful one? Why or why not?
In what ways does poverty lead to environmental degradation? In what way are the poor victims?
What are some of these factors, how important do you think they are, and what might be done to ensure that these factors are not negative?
What is meant by the expression getting prices right? What is an industrial district? How might governments of developing countries help them succeed?
Describe briefly the theory of the demographic transition. At what stage in this transition do most developing countries seem to be? Explain your answer.
What types of poverty policies have proved effective? Is progress being made in the fight against poverty? Why or why not?
Why might high levels of inequality lead to lower rates of growth and development? Why might it be difficult to get out of this kind of trap?
What is meant by the term neoclassical counterrevolution? What are its principal arguments, and how valid do you think they are? Explain your answer.
Do these data indicate a statistically significant seasonal pattern of sales for Rubax shoes? If so, what is the seasonal pattern exhibited by the data?
How might Rapid improve the value of this regression as a sales predictor.
Give the estimated demand equation for predicting restaurant sales.
Since a multiple regression can have any number of explanatory variables, how do we decide how many variables to include in any given situation?
Question: Discuss with reference to empirical evidence why changes in consumption should be unpredictable.
A multiplicative demand function of the form: Qd = a*P^b1*Y^b2*Po^b3 is estimated using cross-sectional data and 224 observations.
Using the following equation, what is the demand equation as a function of Ps if the price of other pastas (Po) is $2, the individual's income (Y)
Derive the equation for the demand curve for Chevrolet. Plot the demand curve