Economics Past Questions And Answers
Full employment is a situation in which _______
- A. Every adult is employed.
- B. Only the disable are not employed.
- C. All adults who can work are employed.
- D. All those who are able and eligible can find employment
A buyer who haggles in the market is applying the principle of
- A. choice
- B. price mechanism
- C. opportunity cost
- D. utilty maximization
A persistence rise in the prices of inputs will lead to
- A. cost push inflation
- B. demand pull inflation
- C. hyperinflation
- D. stagflation
(a) What is economic development? (b) Outline any five features of a Development Bank.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2011 THEORYif a housewife has meat and tomatoes, she must find someone who wants meat and has tomatoes to give. this concept is described as?
- A. opportunity cost
- B. scale of preference
- C. complementary demand
- D. double of coincidence of wants
Government fixing of prices below the equilibrium point is aimed at protecting the
- A. sellers
- B. industries
- C. distributors
- D. consumers
Which of the following statements is not true in an inflationary period?
- A. the purchasing power diminishes
- B. Wages rise simultaneously with prices
- C. More money runs after a limited quantity of goods
- D. Aggregate real demand exceeds aggregate real supply
The notion of short-run and long-run periods is responding for grouping cost into
- A. fixed and variable
- B. implicit and explicit
- C. average and total
- D. capital and running
The principle that specified that the amount, when and how to pay tax should be made known to tax payer is known as
- A. Principle of economy
- B. Principle of convenience
- C. Principle of simplicity
- D. Principle of certainty
The suggestion that peasants in Africa have backward-bending supply curves of output implies that their response to an increase in the price of their crops will be to?
- A. increase their output
- B. decrease their output
- C. keep their output constant
- D. hoard their output

