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Low confidence
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The relevant improvement is human capital."}]},{"id":"1afa82b3-cc4f-4302-9201-8f22c8ebcade","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"How long can education and training take to raise growth?","back":"10 years or more.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"10 years or more.","correct":true,"explanation":"Education and training require time for people to gain qualifications, skills and experience, so their effect on productivity and long-run growth may take a decade or longer."},{"text":"Less than one year.","correct":false,"explanation":"Short courses may produce limited immediate benefits, but broad improvements in skills and productivity take much longer. Education and training can require 10 years or more."},{"text":"Two to three years.","correct":false,"explanation":"Some training has quick effects, but major education improvements and workforce skill development usually take longer. The expected timescale for substantial growth effects is 10 years or more."},{"text":"Exactly five years.","correct":false,"explanation":"The impact varies and is not restricted to a fixed five-year period. Developing human capital and raising productivity can take 10 years or more."}]},{"id":"d74eee1b-9655-478a-aa1f-fbf61c68d604","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"Better transport and digital networks reduce firms' [ ], raising productivity.","back":"Better transport and digital networks reduce firms' costs, raising productivity.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"costs","correct":true,"explanation":"Improved roads, ports, broadband and digital systems make it cheaper and easier for firms to transport goods, communicate and coordinate production, lowering their operating costs."},{"text":"profits","correct":false,"explanation":"Better networks may increase profits indirectly, but they directly reduce the resources firms must spend on transport and communication. The correct term is costs."},{"text":"wages","correct":false,"explanation":"Infrastructure improvements do not directly reduce the pay firms offer workers. They reduce transport, communication and operating costs, which can then improve productivity."},{"text":"revenues","correct":false,"explanation":"Revenue is income from sales and is not directly lowered by improved networks. The immediate effect is to reduce firms’ costs, supporting higher productivity."}]},{"id":"db55e331-de09-46ed-b895-9e6af5a77c41","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"Better transport and digital networks reduce firms' costs, raising [ ].","back":"Better transport and digital networks reduce firms' costs, raising productivity.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"productivity","correct":true,"explanation":"When firms can transport inputs and products efficiently and communicate reliably, they produce more output from the same resources. 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Its relevant growth effect is higher productivity through more efficient production and distribution."}]},{"id":"6452b4b1-49f9-47e0-ad1d-fd368ae0511d","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"When is infrastructure spending most effective for growth?","back":"Poor infrastructure is constraining output.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Poor infrastructure is constraining output.","correct":true,"explanation":"Where transport, communications or energy networks are inadequate, firms face delays and higher costs that restrict production. Spending there can therefore release significant capacity and support growth."},{"text":"Excess capacity is constraining output.","correct":false,"explanation":"Excess capacity means resources are available but underused, not that infrastructure is limiting production. Infrastructure spending is most effective when poor networks constrain output."},{"text":"Strong demand is constraining output.","correct":false,"explanation":"Strong demand may encourage firms to expand, but it does not identify the infrastructure bottleneck targeted by this policy. The relevant constraint is poor infrastructure."},{"text":"Low interest rates are constraining output.","correct":false,"explanation":"Low interest rates generally make investment cheaper rather than constrain output. Infrastructure spending has the greatest growth effect where poor infrastructure limits firms’ productive activity."}]},{"id":"06b0c9d4-8872-4c75-bf38-bdf53441cc4a","cardType":"basic","points":3,"front":"Which reforms can sharpen incentives to work, hire and invest?","back":"

Lower marginal taxes
Deregulation

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Lower marginal taxes
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Higher marginal taxes
More regulation

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Price controls
Import quotas

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Higher benefit payments
Nationalisation

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The key distributional drawback is that tax and market reform can widen inequality."},{"text":"It can reduce productive capacity.","correct":false,"explanation":"Reforms designed to improve incentives and competition are intended to raise productive capacity, although their gains may be unevenly shared. The distributional drawback is potentially wider inequality."},{"text":"It can cause a budget surplus.","correct":false,"explanation":"A budget surplus concerns government revenue and spending, not directly the distribution of income. The relevant drawback is that tax and market reform can widen inequality."}]},{"id":"25861b94-f94d-4ac1-8945-d89e4a8e8fca","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"Higher productivity lowers [ ] and shifts LRAS to the right.","back":"Higher productivity lowers unit costs and shifts LRAS to the right.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"unit costs","correct":true,"explanation":"Higher productivity means more output is produced from each unit of input, lowering the cost per unit. This improves firms’ productive efficiency and shifts LRAS to the right."},{"text":"average wages","correct":false,"explanation":"Productivity growth can sometimes raise wages rather than directly lower them, especially when labour demand increases. The immediate cost effect described here is lower unit costs."},{"text":"aggregate demand","correct":false,"explanation":"Higher productivity is a supply-side improvement, so it lowers unit costs and shifts LRAS right. Aggregate demand is affected by spending, income and monetary conditions instead."},{"text":"nominal interest rates","correct":false,"explanation":"Interest rates are determined by monetary conditions and financial-market factors, not directly by the productivity relationship in this sentence. Higher productivity lowers unit costs."}]},{"id":"f2554717-4393-43d4-8891-04f9a7a86456","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"Higher productivity lowers unit costs and shifts [ ].","back":"Higher productivity lowers unit costs and shifts LRAS to the right.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"LRAS to the right","correct":true,"explanation":"Higher productivity increases the economy’s potential output at each price level. This is represented by a rightward shift of long-run aggregate supply, alongside lower unit costs."},{"text":"LRAS to the left","correct":false,"explanation":"A leftward LRAS shift represents reduced productive capacity, such as from lower productivity or fewer resources. Higher productivity expands potential output and shifts LRAS to the right."},{"text":"AD to the right","correct":false,"explanation":"A rightward AD shift results from stronger spending, such as higher consumption or investment. Higher productivity is a supply-side change, shifting LRAS to the right."},{"text":"AD to the left","correct":false,"explanation":"A leftward AD shift reflects falling aggregate expenditure, not improved productive efficiency. Higher productivity lowers unit costs and shifts long-run aggregate supply to the right."}]},{"id":"71c99ed3-d3d2-4514-a121-30ea2cacb581","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"How can debt-financed fiscal stimulus cause crowding out?","back":"Government borrowing raises interest rates, reducing private investment.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Government borrowing raises interest rates, reducing private investment.","correct":true,"explanation":"Debt-financed stimulus increases demand for loanable funds. If government borrowing pushes interest rates up, private firms face higher finance costs and may reduce investment."},{"text":"Government borrowing lowers interest rates, reducing private investment.","correct":false,"explanation":"Lower interest rates normally make borrowing cheaper and encourage private investment, not reduce it. Crowding out occurs when government borrowing raises interest rates and displaces investment."},{"text":"Government taxation raises interest rates, reducing private investment.","correct":false,"explanation":"The mechanism concerns borrowing to finance the stimulus, not taxation. Government borrowing can raise interest rates, increasing private finance costs and reducing private investment."},{"text":"Government borrowing raises wages, reducing private investment.","correct":false,"explanation":"Higher wages may affect firms’ costs, but this is not the standard crowding-out mechanism. Crowding out results from government borrowing raising interest rates and reducing private investment."}]},{"id":"dd4fdb41-2cf9-400a-9979-af3cb369f950","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"What is usually the strongest strategy for promoting economic growth?","back":"Combine demand-side and supply-side policies.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Combine demand-side and supply-side policies.","correct":true,"explanation":"Demand-side policies can support spending and employment in the short run, while supply-side policies raise productive capacity. Combining them can support both actual and potential economic growth."},{"text":"Use demand-side policies alone.","correct":false,"explanation":"Demand-side policies can increase real output when spare capacity exists, but sustained growth may be limited by productive capacity. 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