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1. Cost... production depends... a great extent... the technology chosen and the price... factors employed.

2. Reports of the European Union Statistical Commission show a num­ber... ways... coping... the problem... scarce information resources.

3. Greater use... women as labour force is sometimes argued to cause... higher unemployment.

4. A group comprising... the Persian Gulf oil countries, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, accounts... less than one percent... the world's population.

5. An important problem facing the governments... most less developed countries is the extent... which they want to maintain... a balance... the agricultural and industrial sectors... the economy.

6. Most economists agree that the government has a very important role... speeding up... economic development.

7. The annual inflation rate has been found to be the percentage in­crease... year... the average price... goods and services.

8. Economic statistics are... interest... non-European-Union coun­tries... addition... economic policy decision-makers... the European Union.

9. Typically, people who have just faced... unemployment are unlikely to make immediate downward adjustments... their standards... living. They are more likely to reduce... their savings... some extent.

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1. In the United Kingdom in the 1970s the Labour government tried to reduce the difference between high-wage jobs and low-wage jobs by (adopting / arguing) an incomes policy that allowed an absolute rather than a percentage increase. £ 6 a week (causes / means) much more to a worker earning £ 40 a week than to a worker earning £ 100 a week.

2. Pensions and other social payments are raised every year by the rate corresponding to the rate of (any / anticipated) inflation.

3. The 1973 rise of oil prices (caused / sped) only a little extra unemploy­ment but a lot of extra inflation, and the 1979-80 price shock (occurred / caused) much more extra unemployment but (whether / rather) low in­crease in inflation.

4. Taxing the rich and transferring the funds to the poor, the government (adjusts / ensures) that the poor get more of what is produced.

5. Without (means / indexation), it is costly (дорого) to live with high in­flation rates.

6. The quantity theory of money (argues / means) that changes in prices (occur / are caused) mainly by equivalent changes in money supply.

7. In practice the distinction between land and capital is (though /rather) uncertain.

8. The output of new ideas depends to a large (extent / number) on the resources allocated for them.