People as Resource: Population as Human Capital
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What is the prime example of how improved production technologies can increase the productivity of land resources?

  • India's IT Revolution
  • Investment in human capital
  • India's Green Revolution (correct)
  • Development of physical capital

What is superior to other resources like land and physical capital?

  • Financial capital
  • Physical capital
  • Human capital (correct)
  • Material capital

What is the primary way to turn a large population into a productive asset?

  • Developing new technology
  • Increasing the country's land area
  • Investing in physical capital
  • Investing in human capital (correct)

Why was Sakal able to get a job in a private firm?

<p>Because of his own merit and enthusiasm (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the indirect benefit of a more educated or healthier population?

<p>The advantages spread to those who were not directly educated or given health care (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

India's Green Revolution is a dramatic example of how the input of greater ______ in the form of improved production technologies can rapidly increase the productivity of scarce land resources.

<p>knowledge</p> Signup and view all the answers

Human ______ is in one way superior to other resources like land and physical capital:

<p>capital</p> Signup and view all the answers

A large population can be turned into a productive ______ by investment in human capital:

<p>asset</p> Signup and view all the answers

Sakal's father persuaded him to continue his ______.

<p>studies</p> Signup and view all the answers

Sakal's uncle Shyam had passed the ______ examination, but, was sitting idle in the house as he had no job.

<p>matriculation</p> Signup and view all the answers

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