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