A Country's Growth Rate Strongly Depends on How It Has

question 231

Multiple Choice

A country's growth rate strongly depends on how it has invested in its physical capital. Generally, countries that have used _____ as a source of their capital investment have exhibited the highest growth rate.

• A) foreign direct investment
• B) domestic saving
• C) foreign portfolio investment
• D) contracted globalization

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Definitions:

Psychosexual Stages

Freud's theory of childhood development that centers on the manifestations of the sexual instinct at different ages.

Defense Mechanisms

Devices the ego uses to keep threatening material out of awareness and thereby reduce or avoid anxiety.

Neurotic Anxiety

A form of anxiety resulting from an unconscious fear that the ego's control over unacceptable impulses of the id will fail, leading to punishment for inappropriate thoughts or behaviors.

Unconscious

In Freud’s topographic model, the part of personality that contains material that cannot easily be brought into awareness.