

MCQOPTIONS
This section includes 18 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Economics Mcqs knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
1. |
Which of the following is not a public policy to promote the private sector ? |
A. | Investigating development potential through scientific and market research and natural resources surveys |
B. | Providing adequate infrastructure for public and private agencies |
C. | Creating markets, including commodity markets, security exchanges, banks credit facilities and insurance companies |
D. | Increasing market monopolies and oligopolies to help producers |
Answer» E. | |
2. |
A state planning ideology arose in LDCs as a reaction to nationalist perceptions of ? |
A. | Keeping balanced budget, a price target |
B. | slow economic growth under colonial capitalism |
C. | minimizing public spending in the rural areas |
D. | western countries, nation-state ideology |
Answer» C. minimizing public spending in the rural areas | |
3. |
Which of the following assumptions underlying input-output analysis raises about its validity ?
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A. | I and II only |
B. | I, II, III only |
C. | I, II, IV only |
D. | I, II, III and IV |
Answer» E. | |
4. |
Most mixed or capitalist developing countries are limited to an indicative plan, which indicates expectations, aspirations, and intentions ? |
A. | but falls short of authorization |
B. | with immediate implementation |
C. | of the central bank |
D. | of implementation through foreign aid |
Answer» B. with immediate implementation | |
5. |
Branko Horvat’s historical review of the last two and one-half century indicates that in large part market or decentralized socialism ? |
A. | has failed |
B. | works well in Utopia |
C. | is widely used in sub Saharan Africa |
D. | is the only way to eradicate poverty? |
Answer» B. works well in Utopia | |
6. |
Polish economist Oskar Lange’s model of decentralized ______ combined the advantages of market allocation with more uniform income distribution by dividing the returns from social ownership of nonhuman productive resources among the whole population ? |
A. | market socialism |
B. | capitalism |
C. | mixed economy |
D. | monopoly |
Answer» B. capitalism | |
7. |
A medium-term plan can be a(n) ________ revised at the end of each year? |
A. | instrument variable |
B. | seasonal expenditure |
C. | rolling plan |
D. | perspective plan |
Answer» D. perspective plan | |
8. |
Planning in many LDCs has failed because detailed programs for the public sector have not been worked out and ? |
A. | governments depend primarily on their colonial masters |
B. | excessive controls are used in the private sector |
C. | the brain drains cost government substantially |
D. | monopolies dominate in the agricultural sector |
Answer» C. the brain drains cost government substantially | |
9. |
Under Soviet-type economy-wide central planning ? |
A. | most resource lack freedom to move to their highest value uses |
B. | resources are free to move to their lowest cost uses |
C. | resources owned by private entities moves to efficient use but not those owned publicly |
D. | resources are privately owned by capitalists |
Answer» B. resources are free to move to their lowest cost uses | |
10. |
Government’s use of coordinated policies to achieve national economic objectives is ? |
A. | commanding heights |
B. | entrepreneurial programs |
C. | public physical policy |
D. | development planning |
Answer» E. | |
11. |
Deepak Lal argues that development economics is dominated by _______ approach that favors government intervention into LDC prices? |
A. | dirigiste |
B. | Keynesian |
C. | Commanding heights |
D. | soft budget |
Answer» B. Keynesian | |
12. |
Goals are achieved through ____ such a monetary fiscal, exchange rate tariff tax subsidy, business incentive foreign investment and foreign aid? |
A. | indicative plan |
B. | central bank policies |
C. | central planning |
D. | instrument variables |
Answer» E. | |
13. |
According to Oskar Lange’s model socialist enterprises should produce where ? |
A. | The monopoly profit maximization rule applies |
B. | Product price equals marginal cost |
C. | marginal revenue equals average cost |
D. | total revenue equals total cost |
Answer» C. marginal revenue equals average cost | |
14. |
Annual GNP growth of 6% poverty reduced by 1% point of the population Balance of payments deficit not in excess of $200 million For a planner, the above are ? |
A. | achieved only through socialism |
B. | target variables |
C. | bound by soft budget |
D. | recurrent expenditures |
Answer» C. bound by soft budget | |
15. |
Worker-managed socialism helped contribute to ________ ‘s rapid economic growth from 1959 to 1979? |
A. | Yugoslavia |
B. | Chile |
C. | Vietnam |
D. | Japan |
Answer» B. Chile | |
16. |
The market efficiently allocates scarce resource among alternative ends such that ?
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A. | III and IV only |
B. | II and III only |
C. | I, II and III only |
D. | I, II, III and IV |
Answer» E. | |
17. |
Takatoshi Ito (1992) contends that parliamentary governments manipulate the timing of _____ while presidential governments manipulate the timing of _____? |
A. | monetary policy, fiscal policy |
B. | elections; economics policies |
C. | economic policies; political policies |
D. | tax collection, tax implementation |
Answer» C. economic policies; political policies | |
18. |
The input-output table, when divided vertically shows ? |
A. | the inputs to each industry from other industries and sectors |
B. | development planning and the required information on national income growth |
C. | the planned public capital divided by feasible actual industrial projects public capital |
D. | how the output of each industry is distributed within the sectors of the economy |
Answer» B. development planning and the required information on national income growth | |