Sail E0 Webinar

MCQs

Total Questions : 650 | Page 57 of 65 pages
Question 561. The Minimum Wages Act was first passed in India in the year:
  1.    1951
  2.    1948
  3.    1950
  4.    1947
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> 1948
Answer: (b)The Minimum Wages Act, 1948 was enacted to safeguard the interests of workers, mostly in the unorganized sector by providing for the fixation of minimum wages in certain specified employments. It binds the employers to pay their workers the minimum wages fixed under the Act from time to time.
Question 562. AGMARK is a guarantee of standard :
  1.    size
  2.    quantity
  3.    weight
  4.    quality
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> quality
Answer: (d)The present AGMARK standards cover quality guidelines for 205 different agricultural commodities spanning a variety of Pulses, Cereals, Essential Oils, Vegetable Oils, Fruits & Vegetables, and semiprocessed products.
Question 563. EXIM Policy, 2002-07, has set a target to achieve a share in the global trade by 2007 at
  1.    1.0 per cent
  2.    0.5 per cent
  3.    1.5 per cent
  4.    2.0 per cent
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> 1.0 per cent
Answer: (a)
The EXIM Policy for 2002-07 which came into effect on 1st April 2002 was the first policy that had to be formulated keeping in view all the commitments India had made under the WTO.
In 2001, all quantitative restrictions on imports were removed. The medium-term export strategy for 2002-07 had set a target of 1 per cent share of global trade by 2006-07.
According to the then estimates by the Directorate-General of Foreign Trade, to corner 1 per cent of the global trade pie, exports needed to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 14.25 per cent over the next three years.
Question 564. In pursuance with the recommendations of Narsimhan Committee, the RBI has framed new guidelines
  1.    to reduce the freedom given to banks to rationalize their existing branch network
  2.    to setup more foreign exchange banks
  3.    to govern entry of new private sector banks to make the banking sector more competitive
  4.    to lend more easily for industrial development
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> to govern entry of new private sector banks to make the banking sector more competitive
Answer: (c)The risk weight for a Government guaranteed advance should be the same as for other advances. To ensure that banks do not suddenly face difficulties in meeting the capital adequacy requirement, the new prescription on risk weight for Government guaranteed advances should be made prospective from the time the new prescription is put in place.
Question 565. Which of the following should be considered for ‘Pigovian taxation’?
  1. Consumption of cigarettes
  2. Research for new technologies
  3. Burning of fossil fuels
  4. Restoration of lost cultural heritage
Choose the correct answer using the codes given below:
  1.    2, 3 and 4 only
  2.    1, 2 and 3
  3.    1 and 3 only
  4.    2 and 4 only
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> 1 and 3 only
Answer: (c)A Pigovian tax is a tax applied to a market activity that is generating negative externalities (costs for somebody else) like cigarette consumption, burning of fossil fuel.
Question 566. India adopted the Five-Year Plans from
  1.    former USSR
  2.    France
  3.    America
  4.    England
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> former USSR
Answer: (a)
India borrowed features of fundamental duties and planning mechanisms from the former Soviet Union. India opted for a planned economic growth model as resources were scarce at the time of independence.
So it was imperative for the leaders to move along planned model so as to achieve optimum utilization of resources development and meeting the aim of social justice simultaneously.
Question 567. Which of the following are correct in regard to the austerity measures taken by a country going through adverse economy conditions:

  1. These measures include a reduction in spending.

  2. These measures include an increase in tax

  3. These measures include reduction in budget deficit.


Select the correct answer using the codes given below :
  1.    1 and 3 only
  2.    2 and 3 only
  3.    1 and 2 only
  4.    1, 2 and 3
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> 1, 2 and 3
Answer: (d)
Austerity describes policies used by governments to reduce budget deficits during adverse economic conditions. These policies may include spending cuts, tax increases.
This is done in an economic crisis situation to improve the credit rating of the countries going through adverse economic conditions.
Question 568. Which one of the following is not an industrial finance institution?
  1.    ICICI
  2.    UTI
  3.    NABARD
  4.    SFCs
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> NABARD
Answer: (c)NABARD provides its refinance for the promotion of agriculture in India.
Question 569. Which one of the following is not a qualitative control of credit by the Central Bank of a country ?
  1.    Regulation of consumer credit
  2.    Rationing of credit
  3.    Variation of margin requierments.
  4.    Regulation of margin requirements.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Variation of margin requierments.
Answer: (c)
Qualitative credit (used by the RBI for selective purposes) are:
Margin requirements,
Consumer Credit Regulation,
RBI Guidelines,
Rationing of credit,
Moral Suasion and
Direct Action.
The Quantitative Credit measures which control the total quantity of credit are:
Bank Rate policy,
Open Market Operations,
Cash Reserve Ratio and
Statutory Liquidity Ratio.
Question 570. The National Income of a country is
  1.    sum total of factor incomes
  2.    export minus import
  3.    surplus of PSU’S
  4.    the annual revenue of the government
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> sum total of factor incomes
Answer: (a)
National income is the sum total of wages, rent, interest, and profit earned by the factors of production of a country in a year.
Thus it is the aggregate values of goods and services rendered during a given period counted without duplication.

Latest Videos

Latest Test Papers