Economics Past Questions And Answers
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Which of the following will be an effect of inflation?
- A. wage earners will gain
- B. borrowing of money will be restricted
- C. money lenders will gain
- D. borrowers of money will gain
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A policy aimed at enhancing globalization of the Nigerian economy is
- A. indigenization
- B. dereglation
- C. commercialization
- D. privatization
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(a) What is a market economy?
(b) Highlight the features of a market economy.
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Which of these does not relate to the law of comparative advantage?
- A. The law of comparative advantage was propounded by David Ricardo
- B. The law stresses the importance of relative efficiency
- C. In order to specialize, a country must have absolute advantage
- D. The law is based on opportunity cost principle
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Change in demand and change in quantity demanded are not the same because
- A) All factors affecting change in demand also affect change in quantity demanded except income
- B) All factors affecting change in demand are not affecting change in quantity demanded except income
- C) Many factors leads to change in demand but only change in price affect change in quantity demanded
- D) many factors leads to change in demand but only change in income affect change in quantity demanded
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The reward for labour is
- A. wage
- B. profit
- C. rent
- D. dividend
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Which of the following best describes the multiplier?
- A. products of income and expenditure
- B. Curves of savings and expenditure
- C. Ratio of change in income to the expenditure that brought it about
- D. Constant level of income
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one main benefit of partnership is
- A. the possibility of raising funds on the stock exchange
- B. the possibility of attracting twenty one or more members
- C. that members can specialize in various functions
- D. that it enjoys its own separate legal entity
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progressive system of taxation implies that the
- A. poor pay relatively more
- B. tax rate falls as the tax base increases
- C. tax rate increases as the tax base increases
- D. average and marginal rate of tax will be the same
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Economics can be best defined as the study of
- A. how to spend the family income efficiently
- B. how to find minimum cost of production
- C. the interpretation of scarce resource and date
- D. how scarce resource can be used efficiently

