Economics JAMB, WAEC, NECO AND NABTEB Official Past Questions

3823

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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3824

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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3825

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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3826

Bills of exchange originates from a?

  • A. central bank
  • B. commercial bank
  • C. community bank
  • D. development bank
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3827

People hold money for?

  • A. charity
  • B. safe keeping
  • C. profit making
  • D. speculative purposes
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3828

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

  • A. direct
  • B. unpredictable
  • C. diverse
  • D. inverse
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3829

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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3830

Non-bank financial intermediaries do not?

  • A. provide credit facilities
  • B. accept deposits
  • C. accept demand deposits
  • D. sell shares
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3831

One of the major problems of product distribution in most developing countries is?

  • A. lack of storage facilities
  • B. large number of middlemen
  • C. inadequate manpower
  • D. inadequate means of transportation
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3832

The value of the multiplier depends on?

  • A. MPC and level of income
  • B. level of personal income
  • C. level of personal savings
  • D. government policy and MPC
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3833

National income at factor cost means national income at?

  • A. current prices
  • B. nominal prices
  • C. last year prices
  • D. base year prices
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3834

When a worker earns more than the wage just sufficient to keep him in his job, the excess income is called?

  • A. an opportunity cost
  • B. an economic rent
  • C. transfer earnings
  • D. surplus value
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3835

Optimum population is defined as the level of population at which?

  • A. per capital output is maximized
  • B. population is neither increasing nor decreasing
  • C. total national income is maximized
  • D. marginal efficiency of population is maximized
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3836

An entrepreneur will continue to employ labour up to a point where?

  • A. costs are minimized
  • B. maximized efficiency is attained
  • C. wages are equal to marginal product of labour
  • D. marginal product of labour is equal to zero
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3837

Import substitution industrialization refers to?

  • A. the concentration of industries for even regional development
  • B. setting up of industries for even development
  • C. a situation in which local industries are set up to produce goods formerly imported
  • D. the banning of imports which are subtitutes for domestically produce goods
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3838

Concentrating industries in one place is advantageous because there are gains in terms of?

  • A. external economies
  • B. internal economies
  • C. economies of scale
  • D. cost economies
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3839

The first petroleum exploring company to discover crude petroleum in Nigeria was?

  • A. Mobil
  • B. Texaco
  • C. Agip
  • D. Shell-BP
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3840

The primary objective of establishing the Export Process Zone is to?

  • A. facilitate agricultural production
  • B. encourage the production and processing of export commodities
  • C. erect imported raw materials
  • D. erect economic structures near the port
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3841

The major problem of cooperative societies in Nigeria is that?

  • A. they often lack cohersion and continuity
  • B. their liability is unlimited to members
  • C. voting is by proxy
  • D. their management style is poor
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3842

The land tenure system in Nigeria impedes agricultural production because?

  • A. land fragmentation makes possible easy access to land ownership
  • B. it discourages specialization of factors of production
  • C. it limits opportunity for mass production of agricultral goods
  • D. small land holders generally do not get enough fertilizer to use
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3843

A major obstacle to rapid agricultural development in Nigeria is the?

  • A. ineffective use of crude implements
  • B. inability of farmers to adopt modern technology
  • C. introduction of the Green Revolution programme
  • D. declining population growth rate
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