Economic Development Flashcards
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is a social science that deals with efficient management of limited or scarce resources.
Economics
refers to the percentage change in a nation’s per capita GDP (gross domestic product) – the money value of all goods and services produced over a long period of time.
Economic growth
means advancement of the standard of living, e.g., education, healthcare innovation, environment, to name a few.
Economic development
is the level of consumption that people enjoy, on the average income per person.
Standard of living
is the amount of money it takes to buy goods and services that a typical family consumes.
Cost of living
means the amount of goods and services produced from each unit of labor
Productivity
To produce more, we must invest in capital assets to enable us to have the capacity to yield more goods and services.
Savings and investment
As the stock capital increases, the extra output produced from an additional unit of capital decreases.
Diminishing returns and catch-up effect
An investment that is sponsored with foreign money and operated domestically is called foreign portfolio investment. It is expected that the use of foreign money would mean more opportunities to produce where the money is capitalized, but a certain interest in that money is foreseen as well.
Investment from abroad
Human capital theory attributes differential investments in human capital to inequalities in income, such as those found to exist between women and men or minorities and whites.
Education
A healthy population would also mean human capital, just like education, hence, are capable to produce more goods and services because they can maximize employment as compared to an unhealthy population.
Health and nutrition
Property rights ensure the exercise of rights over one’s property and these guarantees more production of goods and services.
Property rights and political stability
A competitive economy that reduces or eliminates trade restrictions experiences economic growth after benefiting from more products to be used as input to production.
Free trade
The products of research and development (R & D) are new ideas, goods, and services that people consume.
Research and development
There are two schools of thought regarding population growth. On one hand, a relatively large population means more human resources working and contributing to the production of the country, but on the other hand, it also means more people to consume those goods and services.
Population growth
Assets that are utilized to produce goods and services
Physical Capital
Knowledge, skills, and abilities, (KSA) humans develop
Human capital
Refers to the bounty of the land and water used in production
Natural Resources
Innovation and advances to make life easier and more efficient production
Technology
The theory tells us that a weak link in the production process may cause a surmountable quality failure of the final output. The quality of the input is given more value than its quantity.
O-ring theory