Jamb 1992 Economics Past Questions And Answers
The total amount of money in circulation includes cash?
- A. and current account
- B. owned by banks and the non-bank public
- C. and current acount balances owned by banks and non-bank public
- D. owned by banks, the government and the non-bank public
The Nigerian Trust Fund is managed on behalf of Nigeria by the?
- A. World Bank
- B. International Monetary Fund
- C. African Development Bank
- D. Economic Commission for Africa
When interest rates are high and still rising the least-cost method used by public limited companies to obtain additional funds for their operations is by?
- A. obtaining life-term loans from merchant banks
- B. obtain short-term loans from commercial banks
- C. selling floating-rate debenture stocks to the general public
- D. selling new ordinary shares to the general public
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
the major objective of current campaign for family planning in Nigeria is to?
- A. reduce the death rate
- B. limit the number of women a man can marry
- C. keep the population growth rate constant
- D. raise the standard of living of the population
The objective of public finance is to promote?
- A. full employment, national income and price stability
- B. government revenue drive and expenditure to as high a level as possible
- C. the expansion of government social services
- D. government revenue drive and minimize government expenditure
Which of the following situations can give rise to economic problems?
- A. Unlimited human wants
- B. Wants of varying important
- C. Limited means available for satisfying wants
- D. Means used in different ways
In national income accounting, aggregate saving in any year is defined as?
- A. all disposable income not spent on consumption
- B. all savings deposits in all banks during the year
- C. all savings and time deposits in all banks during the year
- D. the value of inventory change for the year
A significant effect of the growth of the oil sector in Nigeria has been to?
- A. increase the rate of unemployment
- B. diminish the percentage contribution of the agricultural sector to GNP
- C. slow down the pace of industrialization
- D. retard the rate of economic growth
The type of business organizations mostly used for producing public goods in Nigeria is
- A. Sole proprietorships
- B. Limited liability companies
- C. Co-operative societies
- D. Statutory corporations

