EBK ESSENTIALS OF ECONOMICS
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For each part below, determine whether the following actions will increase or decrease productivity, and name the component of
productivity that each affects.
a. The local government builds a new school.
b. Teachers in the new school hold classes for young
students.
c. A manufacturer installs robots on its assembly line.
d. A research team designs a more efficient system of
irrigation.
e. A soda company discovers a new source of underground
water that can be used to make its products.
f. A professor writes a new and improved economics
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g. A large number of people have less access to health
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h. A worker receives on-the-job training to be a
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According to Figure 15.4, by what percentage did GDP per capita increase between 1820 and 1995 in
North America?
Latin America?
Africa?
Last year real GDP per person in the imaginary nation of Olympus was $4,260. The year before it was $4,100. By about what percentage did real GDP per person grow during
the period?
a. 1 percent
b. 0.04 percent
c. 16 percent
d. 4 percent
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