Economics JAMB, WAEC, NECO AND NABTEB Official Past Questions

1

Calculate the total number of people engaged in tertiary production from the data above

  • A. 5,000,000
  • B. 6,250,000
  • C. 11,750,000
  • D. 12,250,000
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2

Use the diagram above to answer this question. Identity the three Important factors that can make So to become either S1 or S2

  • A. Technology, weather and population
  • B. Technology, price and tastes
  • C. Weather, price and technology
  • D. Population, weather and taste
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3

Use the diagram above to answer this question. Points E6 and E5 are respectively equilibrium points for

  • A. Do and So D o and S2
  • B. D1 and S2; D2 and So
  • C. D2 and S1;D2 and S2
  • D. D2 and SoDo and S2
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4

In the diagram above, the consumer attains equilibrium at point

  • A. G
  • B. H
  • C. J
  • D. K
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5

The graphs illustrate

  • A. joint demand
  • B. derived demand
  • C. composite demand
  • D. competitive demand
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6

In the table, the income elasticity of clothing is

  • A. 0.5
  • B. 2.0
  • C. 2.5
  • D. 5.0.l
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7

From the table calculate the national income

  • A. N18,500m
  • B. 19,000m
  • C. 19,500m
  • D. 20,500m
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8

The most acceptable economic measure for trade protection is to?

  • A. improve standards of living
  • B. protect infant industries
  • C. safegard strategic industries
  • D. promote foreign trade
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9

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
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10

Gains from trade depends on?

  • A. comparative advantage
  • B. absolute advantage
  • C. distributive cost advantage
  • D. absolute cost advantage
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11

De valuation helps in checking adverse balance of payments if the?

  • A. demand for imports is elastic
  • B. demand for imports is inelastic
  • C. supply of exports is elastic
  • D. demand for exports is inelastic
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12

A free trade area emerges when?

  • A. traders from one part of the country can move freely to other parts
  • B. customs regulation are harmonized among countries
  • C. a group of countries decide to remove restrictions on imports from one another
  • D. the UNCTAD is in force
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13

The price of a good will not be affected by the imposition of a sales tax on it if the?

  • A. supply is inelastic
  • B. demand is inelastic
  • C. supply is perfectly elastic
  • D. demand is perfectly elastic
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14

Economic development may be defined as economic growth?

  • A. in a given country
  • B. over a long period
  • C. and improved health facilities
  • D. and improved distribution of wealth
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15

Fiscal policy involves changes in?

  • A. open market operations
  • B. revenue and expenditure of government
  • C. money supply to the economy
  • D. imports and exports
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16

One of the functions money is that, it helps?

  • A. detect frauds in matters of exchange
  • B. postponed payments without loss of count
  • C. store information about the valuation of an item
  • D. record information about the valuation of an item
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17

If high unemployment goes hand in hand with rising prices, the situation created is?

  • A. hyperinflation
  • B. stagflation
  • C. moderate inflation
  • D. galloping inflation
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18

Bills of exchange originates from a?

  • A. central bank
  • B. commercial bank
  • C. community bank
  • D. development bank
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19

People hold money for?

  • A. charity
  • B. safe keeping
  • C. profit making
  • D. speculative purposes
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20

The relationship between the value of money and the price level is?

  • A. direct
  • B. unpredictable
  • C. diverse
  • D. inverse
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21

Inflation which is caused mainly increases in the prices of factors of production is described as?

  • A. cost-push inflation
  • B. demand-pull inflation
  • C. crawling inflation
  • D. spiral inflation
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