Question

If a nation is going to achieve and sustain a high rate of economic growth, it must prohibit low-wage foreign producers from supplying goods to the domestic market. have an abundant domestic supply of low cost energy resources. have a mechanism capable of attracting savings and channeling them into wealth-creating projects. impose regulations that will limit the intensity of competition among domestic firms.

Answer 1

Answer:

have a mechanism capable of attracting savings and channeling them into wealth-creating projects.

Explanation:

The single most important factor that fosters economic growth is productivity. Increasing productivity refers being able to produce a larger amount of output using the same amount of resources or producing the same amount of output using a lower amount of resources.

Productivity generally increases by investing in labor (e.g. more education, more training, better health care, etc.), by increasing capital (e.g. more factories, equipment, machinery, etc.) or by investing in the research and development of new technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence, automation, etc.). What all of these ways of increasing productivity have in common, is that they require more investments in the economy.

The only way to have more money to invest is to save more. In economics, savings = investments. Money that you do not spend in the present, can be invested so that in the future your wealth increases. The same logic applies to countries, where more investments = higher and more stable long term economic growth.

Answer 2

Answer: The nation must have a mechanism capable of attracting savings and channeling them into wealth-creating projects. Option C.

Explanation: With higher savings in an economy, a country can be involved in financing higher levels of investment that will boost productivity over the longer term.

Starving the economy of savings and investments can lead to future bottlenecks and shortages.

The Harrod-Domar model of economic growth suggests that, the level of savings is a key factor in determining economic growth rates.

What this basically means is that the level of investment in an economy is limited to the level of savings in that economy.

Therefore a country must strive to attract higher savings in order to create projects that will, in return, create wealth for the country.