Economics Past Questions And Answers
1931
Favorable terms of trade is important to a country because it facilities?
- A. economic prosperity for importers and exporters
- B. export of hard currency by the government
- C. economic prosperity for country
- D. import of hard currency by the government
1932
Discuss five contributions made by agriculture to the industrial development of Nigeria.
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Government revenue will increase if taxes are levied on goods with?
- A. perfectly elastic demand
- B. fairly elastic demand
- C. perfectly inelastic demand
- D. unitary elastic demand
1934
If an economy grows at an annual rate of 5% of which 3% is deemed to be due to improvement in the productivity of labour and capital combined the remaining 2% is generally attributed to?
- A. the size of population
- B. technical progress
- C. the environment
- D. the amount of natural resources
1935
Which of the following factors will not underestimate the national income?
- A. Rapid decrease in prices
- B. Increased subsistence production
- C. Practice of specialization of labour
- D. Increase in value of services not paid for
1936
A firm faces diminishing returns when its?
- A. total output diminishes
- B. average output diminishes
- C. marginal output diminishes
- D. marginal revenue diminishes
1937
The flow labelled Y refers to

- A. real income
- B. factor payment
- C. factor input
- D. national income
1938
An increase in the price of a commodity will result in
- A. a decrease in the quantity demanded
- B. an increase in demand
- C. an increase in quantity demanded
- D. a decrease in demand
1939
Balance of trade is the difference between?
- A. exports and imports of goods and services
- B. capital inflows and capital outflows
- C. visible and invisible balances
- D. exports and imports of goods
1940
A capital market differs from the money market in that in the former?
- A. loan sought is short term
- B. loan reayment is guaranteed
- C. loan sought is long term
- D. the percentage of interest chargedis more

