Some Policies Only Achieve Their Objectives Indirectly Through Spillover Effects

question 8

Multiple Choice

Some policies only achieve their objectives indirectly through spillover effects for example:

• A) A program provides loans to small business in the hopes that increased labor demand will increase wages for unskilled labor
• B) Agricultural research and extension programs who aim to increase the well-being of adopting famers
• C) A resulting increase in food prices from a policy mean some poor become worse off as a result of the policy
• D) When a cash transfer program increases some incomes of the non-poor.

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