UPSC CSE Prelims
Question 33
The substitution of steel for wooden ploughs in agricultural production is an example of
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Correct answer: B
Correct Option: B
Explanation: Replacing a wooden plough with a more productive steel one improves the productive efficiency of the capital input, illustrating capital-augmenting technical change.
Option-wise Analysis:
A: Incorrect - Labour-augmenting progress chiefly raises labour effectiveness, not the quality of the plough as capital.
B: Correct - A steel plough improves the effectiveness/productivity of the equipment used.
C: Incorrect - Capital-reducing progress is not the description of better equipment’s productivity.
D: Incorrect - The case fits capital-augmenting technological progress.