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Answer: Option B. -> Per capita income
Answer: (b)
Per capita income or average income or income per person is the mean income within an economic aggregate, such as a country or city.
It is calculated by taking a measure of all sources of income in the aggregate (such as GDP or Gross National Income) and dividing it by the total population. Measurement of personal income is the best measure of the economic well-being of individuals and nations.
Besides, it helps to show the level of inequality in a society or country.
Answer: (b)
Per capita income or average income or income per person is the mean income within an economic aggregate, such as a country or city.
It is calculated by taking a measure of all sources of income in the aggregate (such as GDP or Gross National Income) and dividing it by the total population. Measurement of personal income is the best measure of the economic well-being of individuals and nations.
Besides, it helps to show the level of inequality in a society or country.
Answer: Option B. -> Construction of a new house
Answer: (b)
National income is the total value of a country’s final output of all new goods and services produced in one year.
So the construction of a new house is certainly output of goods. Transfer payments are not a part of the national income.
So private sector transfers including charitable donations and prizes to lottery winners are excluded from it.
Answer: (b)
National income is the total value of a country’s final output of all new goods and services produced in one year.
So the construction of a new house is certainly output of goods. Transfer payments are not a part of the national income.
So private sector transfers including charitable donations and prizes to lottery winners are excluded from it.
Answer: Option D. -> Banking
Answer: (d)
The tertiary industry is the segment of the economy that provides services to its consumers.
It includes a wide range of activities that are service-based and give non-tangible value to customers such as the provision of trading, insurance, banking, etc.
The other sectors are the secondary sector (manufacturing), and the primary sector (agriculture and allied activities).
Answer: (d)
The tertiary industry is the segment of the economy that provides services to its consumers.
It includes a wide range of activities that are service-based and give non-tangible value to customers such as the provision of trading, insurance, banking, etc.
The other sectors are the secondary sector (manufacturing), and the primary sector (agriculture and allied activities).
Answer: Option A. -> Service motive
Answer: (a)
Capitalism is an economic system in which each individual in his capacity as a consumer, producer, and the resource owner is engaged in economic activity with a large measure of economic freedom.
The inspiring force in this system is self-interest and maximization of profit. The decisions of businessmen, farmers, producers, including that of wage-earners are based on the profit motive.
Answer: (a)
Capitalism is an economic system in which each individual in his capacity as a consumer, producer, and the resource owner is engaged in economic activity with a large measure of economic freedom.
The inspiring force in this system is self-interest and maximization of profit. The decisions of businessmen, farmers, producers, including that of wage-earners are based on the profit motive.
Answer: Option C. -> final goods and services produced in the economy
Answer: (c)
Gross national product (GNP) is the market value of all products and services produced in one year by labour and property supplied by the residents of a country.
It is the total value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a particular year, plus income earned by its citizens (including income of those located abroad), minus income of non-residents located in that country.
Answer: (c)
Gross national product (GNP) is the market value of all products and services produced in one year by labour and property supplied by the residents of a country.
It is the total value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a particular year, plus income earned by its citizens (including income of those located abroad), minus income of non-residents located in that country.
Answer: Option A. -> aggregate consumption and aggregate income
Answer: (a)According to Keynesian Theory of consumption, the current real disposable income is the most important determinant of consumption in the short run. It bases consumption on current income.
Answer: (a)According to Keynesian Theory of consumption, the current real disposable income is the most important determinant of consumption in the short run. It bases consumption on current income.
Answer: Option B. -> Employee's contribution to social security
Answer: (b)
A transfer payment is a one-way payment of money for which no money, good, or service is received in exchange.
Governments use such payments as means of income redistribution by giving out money under social welfare programs such as social security, old age or disability pensions, student grants, unemployment compensation, etc.
Examples of certain transfer payments include welfare (financial aid), social security, and government making subsidies for certain businesses
Answer: (b)
A transfer payment is a one-way payment of money for which no money, good, or service is received in exchange.
Governments use such payments as means of income redistribution by giving out money under social welfare programs such as social security, old age or disability pensions, student grants, unemployment compensation, etc.
Examples of certain transfer payments include welfare (financial aid), social security, and government making subsidies for certain businesses
Answer: Option C. -> J.B.Saw
Answer: (c)
“Supply creates its own demand” is the formulation of Say’s law by John Maynard Keynes.
The rejection of this doctrine is a central component of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) and a central tenet of Keynesian economics.
Say’s law, or the law of the market is an economic principle of classical economics named after the French businessman and economist Jean-Baptiste Say (1767– 1832), who stated that “products are paid for with products” and “a glut can take place only when there are too many means of production applied to one kind of product and not enough to another
Answer: (c)
“Supply creates its own demand” is the formulation of Say’s law by John Maynard Keynes.
The rejection of this doctrine is a central component of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) and a central tenet of Keynesian economics.
Say’s law, or the law of the market is an economic principle of classical economics named after the French businessman and economist Jean-Baptiste Say (1767– 1832), who stated that “products are paid for with products” and “a glut can take place only when there are too many means of production applied to one kind of product and not enough to another
Answer: Option A. -> A teacher teaching his own daughter at home
Answer: (a)
Economic activity, is quite simply, the activity of the economy. It includes the growth and shrinkage of the economy and all factors that affect this (for example Aggregate Expenditure).
It is commonly measured by the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) which is probably one of the most reliable economic indicators.
A teacher teaching his daughter at home is an example of a non-economic activity.
Answer: (a)
Economic activity, is quite simply, the activity of the economy. It includes the growth and shrinkage of the economy and all factors that affect this (for example Aggregate Expenditure).
It is commonly measured by the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) which is probably one of the most reliable economic indicators.
A teacher teaching his daughter at home is an example of a non-economic activity.
Answer: Option B. -> equal to personal income minus direct taxes
Answer: (b)
Disposable income is total personal income minus personal current taxes. In national accounts, definitions, personal income, minus personal current taxes equals disposable personal income.
Subtracting personal outlays (which includes the major category of personal (or, private) consumption expenditure) yields personal (or, private) savings.
Answer: (b)
Disposable income is total personal income minus personal current taxes. In national accounts, definitions, personal income, minus personal current taxes equals disposable personal income.
Subtracting personal outlays (which includes the major category of personal (or, private) consumption expenditure) yields personal (or, private) savings.