Know Your World - 60

1. Industrial policy resolution took place in ___

1956

2. Setting up of planning commission was done in ___

1950

3. Nationalization of 14 commercial banks took place in ___

1969

4. Success of 4th plan was obstructed by

Poor monsoon; war with Pakistan; problem of Bengal refugees

5. The "slack season" in the Indian economy is ___

Jan-June

6. The nationwide scheme of the National Child Labor Projects(NCLP) is run by the ___

Union ministry of social justice and empowerment

7. Gurupadswamy committee death with the issues of ___

Child labor

8. Which states has the largest concentration of rural poor and people living below poverty line?

Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu

9. India’s wage policy is based on ___

Cost of living

10. Unemployment which occurs when workers move from one job to another job is known as ___

Frictional unemployment

11. The type of unemployment mostly found in India can be characterized as ___

Disguised

12. Disguised unemployment in India is mainly related to ___

Agricultural sector and rural area

13. Reason for disguised unemployment in rural areas is ___

Low levels of technological development in the country

14. Unemployment in developing country generally takes place due to ___

Lack of complementary factors of production

15. Cyclical unemployment refers to ___

Unemployment during recessionary phase of a trade cycle

16. Which committee's recommendations are being followed for estimating poverty line in India?

Lakdawala committee

17. Poverty in terms of basic minimum calorie requirements is called ___

Absolute poverty

18. Who are eligible to benefit from the "Mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee act"?

Adult members of any household

19. The difference between the poverty line and actual income levels of all those living below that line is called ___

Poverty gap

20. Hariyali is a watershed development project sponsored by the ___

Central government

21. The food for work programme was renamed as ___

National rural employment programme(nrep)

22. Pradhan mantri gramodya yojana aims at ___

Meeting rural needs like primary education, health care, drinking water, housing, rural roads

23. DWCRA stands for ___

Development of women and children in rural areas

24. Which is a revamp of the integrated rural development programme?

Swarnajayanti gram swarozgar yojana

25. What is the main objective of antyodaya programme?

Uplift the poor

26. Which central government scheme aims at enhancing the livelihood security of the people in rural areas by guaranteeing hundred days of employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work?

MNREGA

27. The minimum needs programme aims to ___

Improve the living conditions of the poor and also promote their education and health

28. The rural landless employment guarantee programme(RLEGP) is an extension of ___

National rural employment programme(NREP)

29. What is nirmal gram puraskar?

It is an incentive scheme of panchayati raj institutions

30. The strategic aim of IRDP is ___

To provide more opportunities for rural employment and credit facilities at concessional rate of interest

Know Your World - 59

1. Globalization of Indian economy means ___

Having minimum possible restrictions on economic relations with other countries

2. The contribution of agriculture to India’s economy is ___

Decreasing

3. Which body finalizes the five year plan proposals?

National development council

4. Which features indicate that Indian economy is of the developing category?

Occupation mainly agricultural; chronic unemployment; poor quality of human capital; low per capita intake of proteins

5. Dadabhai Naoroji theorized on the drain of wealth from India in his book ___

Poverty and unbritish rule in India

6. What are the long term objectives of Indian planning?

Self reliance and productive employment generation

7. Which five year plan recognized human development as the core of all developmental efforts?

Eighth five year plan

8. In which five year plan preference was given to the weaker sections of the society?

Fifth

9. The second five year plan laid more stress upon ___

Industrialization

10. The steel plants at Durgapur, bhilai and Rourkela were established during the period of ___

Second five year plan

11. What is the correct sequence of strategies used for five year plans in India?

Rehabilitation of the economy>industrial development>balanced growth

12. During which five year plan was the total expenditure on agriculture the highest?

Fourth five year plan

13. The objective of self reliance and zero net foreign aid was declared in ___

Fourth five year plan

14. Who was the author of the chapter on "objectives of planned development" for the third five year plan?

Morarji Desai

15. In which five year plan the actual growth performance in respect of GDP was less than the target set?

Ninth five year plan

16. The 11th five year plan strategy to raise agricultural output envisages ___

Greater attention to land reforms; double the rate of growth of irrigated area; promote animal husbandry and fishery

17. Food for Work programmed was launched during which plan?

10th plan

18. Who was the first chairman of the planning commission?

J l Nehru

19. In India single biggest employment is ___

Agriculture and allied activities

20. Indian planning commission is not defined in Indian constitution. Members and vice chairman of it do not have fixed working duration. Members do not require any minimum education. True or False

TRUE

21. Which are indicators of financial health of country?

GDP; PPP; FDI in a year

22. In which plan a shift in the pattern of industrialization with lower emphasis on heavy industries and more on infrastructure begins?

Eighth plan

23. What is "melt down" in finance?

Fall in stock prices

24. The Nehru-Mahalanobis strategy of development guided the planning practice in India from the ___

Second to seventh five year plan

25. Rolling Plan is a plan for the current year which includes the annual budget. It is revised every year as per requirements of the economy. True or False

TRUE

26. A "closed economy" is an economy in which ___

Neither exports nor imports take place

27. In which plan was the growth rate target exceeded ___

First plan

28. The concepts of "minimum heeds" and "directed anti poverty programmes" were the innovations of which plan ___

Fifth plan

29. During which plan did prices show a decline?

First plan

30. Year of great divide is ___

1921

Know Your World - 58

1. 70% of working population of India is engaged in ___

Primary sector

2. Economic survey is published by ___

Ministry of finance

3. Who is called the father of economics ___

Adam smith

4. The concept of five year plans in India was introduced by ___

Jawaharlal Nehru

5. Type of economy in India is ___

Mixed economy

6. India opted for mixed economy in ___

Industrial policy of 1948

7. Mixed economy means an economy where ___

There is coexistence of public sector along with private sector

8. What have prevented the 'trickle down' effects in Indian economy?

Increased dependence of agriculture on purchased inputs and previously managed irrigation; lowered participation of women in agricultural workforce due to new technology

9. The deputy chairman of the planning commission holds the rank of ___

A cabinet minister

10. Who was the first deputy chairman of planning commission of India?

Shri V.T.Krishnamachari

11. The planning commission of India was set up in ___

1950

12. Microeconomics is concerned with ___

Behavior of industrial decision-makers; determination of prices of goods and services

13. Indicative planning being pursued in India since the ___

8th plan

14. The secretary of the planning commission of India is also the secretary of national development council. True or false

TRUE

15. The basic objectives of Indian planning are ___

Economic growth, self reliance, employment generation

16. An undeveloped economy is generally characterized by ___

Low per capita income, low rate of capital formation

17. Self reliance in the economic context implies that a country ___

Has sufficient foreign exchange reserves to buy all its needs; meets its demand for certain vital goods and services from its domestic production

18. What gives an accurate measurement of economic development through five year plans ___

Rise in national income and per capita income

19. In India, public sector is most dominant in ___

Commercial banking

20. The first attempt to initiate economic planning in India was made by ___

M Visvesvaraya

21. The decentralization system was recommended by ___

Balwant rai Mehta

22. The main objective of first five year plan was ___

Development of agriculture including irrigation and power projects

23. India had a plan holiday after the drought of ___

1966

24. Rolling plan was designed for the period ___

1978-83

25. The strategy of rolling plan was adopted during the prime minister ship of ___

Morarji Desai

26. A rolling plan was a plan for ___

One year

27. The basic feature of the rolling plans was that ___

Annual fluctuations in prices and major economic developments could be considered while fixing targets

28. The growth rate of agricultural production was negative in the ___

Third plan

29. Who plans the five year plans?

Planning commission

30. Who wrote the book "planned economy for India"?

M Visvesvaraya

Know Your World - 57

1. In World Bank, the Board of Governors is the supreme body and the voting power of the Governor of a member country is related to the financial contribution of the country concerned. True or False

TRUE

2. Which one of the following best describes the nineteenth century gold standard system?

Automatic system with fixed exchange rates

3. Which of the following are the components of foreign capital?

Grants and loans, External commercial borrowings, Foreign direct investment, Deposits from non-residents.

4. Which one of the following situations occurs during the period when borrowers and lenders expect inflation?

The nominal rate of interest equals the real rate of interest

5. According to the classical theory of employment, deviations from the state of full employment are of:

Purely temporary nature

6. Which one of the following is related to the theory that supply created its own demand and therefore full employment Is a natural situation?

Say’s law

7. According to Keynes, which one of the following is meant by liquidity preference?

Desire to hold cash

8. Which of the following are included in broad money (M 3) in India?

Currency with the public, Demand deposits with banks, Time deposits with banks, "Other‟ deposits with RBI.

9. Loss of information occurs during?

Collection of data

10. The first State in India- which published its State Human Development Report, is?

Kerala

11. The Utility Index Number has been developed by?

Neumann and Morgenstern

12. The best average for the construction of index number is?

Geometric mean

13. The minimum price below which the seller will not sell the goods, is known as?

Reserve price

14. Automatic stabilizer is a tool of?

Taxation policy

15. The price of a commodity will increase if the increase in demand is?

More than increase in supply

16. The following Industrial Policy Resolution is known as the Economic Constitution of India?

Industrial policy, 1956

17. If two regression lines are perpendicular to each other, the correlation coefficient will be?

Zero

18. Who is known as the „Architect‟ of Indian Planning?

M. Visvesaraia

19. The entertainment tax in India was first introduced in the State of?

Bengal

20. Arithmetic mean of deviation is always?

Equal to zero

21. Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics in 2009. Has been awarded for her contribution in the field of?

Management of common property

22. National development council was set up in

1952

23. Economic planning is a subject of ___ list

Union list

24. For internal financing of five year plans, the government depends on:

Taxation only

25. The national development council gets its administrative support from:

Planning commission

26. The five year plans of India intend to develop the country industrially through:

The public, private, joint and cooperative sectors

27. The ex-officio chairman of the planning commission and national development council is

Prime minister

28. The planning commission is

An advisory body

29. Take off stage in an economy means

Steady growth begins

30. Planning in India derives its objectives from

Directive principles of state policy

Know Your World - 56

1. A metropolitan city is one which has a population size of more than?

10 lakh

2. Who has regarded the concept of “ideal output” as an indicator of economic welfare?

Pigou

3. The technique of presenting data by pictogram was developed by?

Otto Neurth

4. The shape of average selling cost curve is?

U-shaped

5. The National Institute of Training for Standardization (NITS) is located at?

Nagpur

6. NABARD is a?

Refinance Bank

7. The concept of „costing margin‟ in the pricing theory was introduced by?

Baumol

8. The Keynesian theory of employment provides the solution of?

Cyclical unemployment

9. Mathematics was first used economic theory by?

Weiser

10. India’s foreign exchange rate system is?

Managed float

11. The terms „NEER‟ and „REER‟ are related with?

Foreign exchange rate

12. For the calculation of percentile, the data should be arranged in?

Ascending order

13. The shape of a frequency curve cannot be?

S-shaped

14. India’s first port-based Special Economic Zone named International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTI) is being set-up at?

Kochi

15. A new housing price index RESIDEX has been launched by?

Central Statistical Organization

16. Which one of the following is not a feature of current Indian Planning?

Functional Planning

17. The concept of disinvestment was introduced by?

Keynes

18. Which of the following is average of second order?

Standard deviation

19. Which average is most affected by the extreme observations?

Arithmetic mean

20. The number of women entrepreneurs in small scale industrial region is highest in the state of?

Tamil Nadu

21. The nature of classical unemployment is?

Open

22. The New Exploration License Policy (NELP) of the Government of India is related with?

Oil and Gas

23. Full employment is a situation when?

Cyclical unemployment is zero

24. Which Indian Company has been included for the first time in U.S. A‟s index NASDAQ-100?

Infosys

25. The natural rate of unemployed is the sum of?

Frictional unemployment and Structural unemployment

26. The most liquid asset among the following is?

Cash

27. The „Swiss Formula‟ of World Trade Organisation is related with?

Non-agricultural tariff

28. The Securities and Exchange Board of India has recently made the rating of Initial Public offerings mandatory. The total number of such grades is ___

Five

29. In any set of numbers, the geometric mean exists only when all numbers are?

Positive

30. Disguised underemployment refers to the situation when:

people seems occupied on a full time basis even though the services they render require less than full time

Know Your World - 55

1. In which terms is the Rate of growth of an economy measured?

National income

2. By whom the rank of the different Ministers in the Union Council of Ministers is determined?

Prime Minister

3. The Imperial Bank of India, after nationalization was given the name of which bank?

State Bank of India

4. On which tax is the minimum effect of Direct Taxes?

Income

5. What is temporary tax levied to obtain additional revenue?

Surcharge

6. In the short run, a producer,’ how long continues his production?

Fixed cost

7. Who was the first Chairman of the Planning Commission?

Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

8. In the short run, a producer, ‘how long continues his production?

Fixed cost

9. By which income individual’s actual standard of living can be assessed?

Disposable Personal Income

10. A firm is called maximum efficient firm if it has?

Minimum Average Cost

11. Implicit cost may be considered as?

Private cost

12. “The Mid-day Meal” scheme is covered under the Ministry of?

Human Resource Development

13. Which of the following associate bank has been taken over by the State Bank of India in 2008?

State Bank of Saurashtra

14. In the Union Budget, the term „Primary Deficit‟ means?

Fiscal Deficit — Interest Payment

15. As a measure to unearth black money, the demonetization of Rupees 1000 currency notes in India was done in the year?

1978

16. The Lead Bank scheme was launched in India on the recommendation of?

F. K. F. Nariman

17. Firms have chronic excess production capacity in?

Monopolistic competition

18. The positional average is shown by?

Median

19. The term rainy day‟ used by Keynes is related with?

Precautionary demand

20. Root mean square of all the deviations is known as?

Standard deviation

21. The tax called CENVAT is related to?

Union Excise Duty

22. Which of the following type of facts are not Considered under the study of statistics

Qualitative facts

23. The statistical calculations in classified data are based on?

The mid-points of the classes

24. The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 prohibits the employment of Children below the age of?

14years

25. To meet the objective of inflation control, the Central Bank should adopt following policy measures

Increase in cash reserve ratio, along with sale of securities under open market operations

26. When was the concept of core sector introduced in Indian industries?

1970

27. Which is the apex bank for micro finance in India?

National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development

28. Which of the following is the largest component of India’s external debt?

Commercial borrowings

29. Tobin tax is related with?

Black money transactions

30. The terms “Static” and “Dynamic” in economics were first used by?

Mill

Know Your World - 54

1. In India, which first bank of limited liability managed by Indians and founded in 1881?

Oudh Commercial Bank

2. How many countries are represented in International Monetary Fund (IMF)?

163

3. Why has the per capita income been low in India?

Because of population growth

4. What is the ideal average NPK ratio aggregated for the country as a whole?

0.16806713

5. Participatory Notes (PNs) are associated with which investors?

Foreign Institutional Investors

6. In which plan was the objective of self-reliance and zero net foreign aid declared?

Fourth 5-Yr Plan

7. How is the standard of living in a country represented?

Per capita income

8. Which is the best measure of economic growth of a country?

GNP

9. How is development?

Wider than economic growth

10. Which groups suffer the most from inflation?

Creditors

11. What does Dear Money Policy imply?

High interest rates

12. Who is the author of the book ‘Development as Freedom’?

Amartya Sen

13. New exim policy has chosen which town for ‘the pottery export?

Khurja

14. The present demographic transition of India is indicative of which thing?

Typically increasing urbanization

15. What is the mean of Ad Valorem?

According to value

16. Who sings on One-rupee currency notes?

Finance Secretary of India

17. How is Indian economy?

Mixed economy

18. What is Broad money in India?

M

19. Regional Rural Banks are designed to work in which ideal?

Help the targeted groups

20. Which bank gives long term loan to farmers?

Land Development Bank

21. Which first Bank was established in India?

Bank of Hindustan

22. Which treated as artificial currency?

SDR

23. Prof. Amartya Sen has earned worldwide distinction in which field /area?

Economics

24. How many members of African Development Bank are there?

78

25. How is the tax which is paid by the person on whom the tax is incident?

Direct tax

26. Which is an extra Constitutional and non-statutory body?

Planning Commission

27. When was decimal coinage introduced in India?

1957

28. How many of Banks were nationalized since 1969?

20

29. Which place does Buyer’s market denote?

The demand exceeds the supply

30. What is deficit financing?

Spending in excess of revenue