Answer:
Explanation:
Water scarcity is defined as not having access to safe water supplies or lack of sufficient water.
It is a rampant problem in water scarce region of the world. Its scarcity is increasing as water is needed for growing and processing food, creating energy and serving industry for growing population.
Climate change is a natural factor causing water scarcity. While pollution, wasteful use of water and deforestation are man made factors.
Most of the causes of water scarcity is related to the human interference with the water cycle.
Economic water scarcity is caused by lack of investment in the water infrastructure. Libya, Jordan, Yemen, Djibouti are the countries facing economic water scarcity.
Answer: An Individual Retirement Account (IRA)
An Individual Retirement Account (IRA) allows an individual to put money aside for retirement.
Explanation:
An Individual Retirement Account (IRA) is an account with a financial institution which provides account owners or individuals the opportunity to save money for retirement purposes. Thus, this type of account usually give individuals tax advantages because they can save based on tax deferment or growth. Types of IRAs account include: traditional IRA, Roth IRA and Rollover IRA.
Answer:
B. Industry wide differentiation
Explanation:
Industry wide differentiation is a business strategy technique that involves a company becoming unique and setting it apart from others. It involves improving qualities of products and introducing a wide range or variety of product line that meets and satisfies the attributes customers want. These improvements in quality makes the company product to become superior in the eyes of the consumers when compared with products of competitors in the same industry. It is also called Broad differentiation as the strategy aims at differentiating the company's product by improving quality and making it more unique than the products offered by rivals or competitors in thesame industry in ways it appeals to a broad range of buyers.
Answer: B) industry-wide differentiation
Explanation:
This is an act of industry offering different products, services or product features into the existing one. This helps the industry to compete with their competitors. It gives them an edge and also make them more attractive to the prospective consumers.
A) decrease the federal funds rate
B) decrease the reserve requirement
C) raise the discount rate
D) buy more government securities
2. Mark washes his jeans and finds that the $20 bill that was in his pocket is in four pieces. He takes the four pieces to the bank and receives a nice crisp $20 bill. What function of money does this illustrate?
A) Measure of value
B) Medium of exchange
C) Divisibility
D) Store of value
3.A free trade agreement lowers restrictions on trucking across International borders. Which of the following would be a negative externality for the local environment?
A) Higher costs for domestic goods
B) fewer imports of renewable resources
C) more water consumption
D) an increase in air pollution
B. Size
C. Page Setup
D. Inches
correct answer is page setup
Answer:
A certain production possibilities frontier shows production possibilities for two goods, jewelry and clothing. The following concepts can not be illustrated by this concept:
Explanation:
Answer: The answer is inflation
Explanation:
Production possibility curve is the locus of points showing the various combination of two commodities that can be produced using the available resources and the available technology. The production possibility curve is a analytical tool which explained the problem of making a choice and opportunity cost., it is used to explain that the cost of producing a particular commodity is the amount of another commodity that must be sacrificed. The production possibility curve can be used to explain the following economic concept
Opportunity cost : This is cost of sacrificing one commodity for the other.This is the alternative forgone in order to produce that commodity.
Full employment : The point on the curve is used to indicate when the country is having full employment or when the country is having an efficient use of resources
Unemployment : The point inside the curve is used to indicate when the country is having unemployment or when such a country is having inefficient use of resources.
Economic growth : The outward shift of the curve indicate that the country is having economic growth, it is used to show when there is an increase in output per head in an economy.
Investment : The production possibility curve is also used to explain when there is increase in investment in the country, in the sense that, investment occurs when more capital goods and fewer consumer goods are produced.
However, The production possibility curve cannot be used to explain the concept of inflation in an economy of a country. In the sense that, in the period of inflation the taste and desires of consumers are not correctly influenced by the prices of goods and services, during inflation less of goods and services are purchased by consumers because inflation reduced their purchasing power.