The Host Country's Balance-Of-Payments Problem Tends to Worsen When Foreign

question 43

Multiple Choice

The host country's balance-of-payments problem tends to worsen when foreign firms:

• A)invest solely in capital-intensive industries.
• B)repatriate their profits to the headquarters from the host country.
• C)acquire the foreign operations in order to diversify corporate investment holdings.
• D)refuse to share technological expertise with the host country.
• E)export all products to other countries.

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Definitions:

Centromeres

The region of a chromosome where the two sister chromatids are most tightly connected, playing a vital role in chromosome segregation during cell division.

Mitosis

A type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus, typical of ordinary tissue growth.

Meiosis I

The first division in meiosis, a type of cell division that results in four daughter cells each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell, important for sexual reproduction.

Meiosis II

The second division in meiosis, where the two cells produced in Meiosis I divide again without DNA replication, resulting in four haploid cells.