Economics Past Questions And Answers

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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
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1999
1932

Discuss five contributions made by agriculture to the industrial development of Nigeria.

View Discussion (0)WAEC 1991 THEORY
1933

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
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2015 OBJ
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
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1992
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
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2019 OBJ
1936

A firm faces diminishing returns when its?

  • A. total output diminishes
  • B. average output diminishes
  • C. marginal output diminishes
  • D. marginal revenue diminishes
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1993
1937

The flow labelled Y refers to

  • A. real income
  • B. factor payment
  • C. factor input
  • D. national income
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1990
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
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2013
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
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1990
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
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2000