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Question 171. Which one of the following was not stipulated in the Fisca Responsibility and Budget Management Act 2003?
  1.    Fixing government guarantees in any financial year as a percentage of GDP
  2.    Elimination of primary deficit by the end of the fiscal year 2008-09
  3.    Elimination of revenue deficit by the end of the fiscal year 2007-08
  4.    Non-borrowing by the Central Government from Reserve Bank of India except - under certain circumstances
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Elimination of primary deficit by the end of the fiscal year 2008-09
Answer: (b)
Question 172. The highest rate of income tax before 1975 was
  1. 72.85
  2. 97.25
  3. 46.89
  4. 27.14
  1.    1 only
  2.    3 only
  3.    2 only
  4.    3 and 4
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> 2 only
Answer: (c)The highest rate of income tax was 97.25, before 1975. Moderate rates of income tax encourage savings, faster growth and motivate voluntary compliance to tax regime. Over the years, the rates have been brought down
Question 173. In India, deficit financing is used for raising resources for
  1.    economic development
  2.    reducing the foreign debt
  3.    redemption of public debt
  4.    adjusting the balance of payments
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> economic development
Answer: (a)
Deficit financing refers to the difference between expenditure and receipts. In public finance, it means the govt. is spending more than what it is earning.
Deficit financing is a necessary evil in a welfare state as the states often fail to generate tax revenue that is sufficient enough to take care of the expenditure of the state.
The basic intention behind deficit financing is to provide the necessary impetus to economic growth by artificial means.
Question 174. Which of the following details can be obtained by Annual financial statement?
  1. Government forecasts of receipts and payments for the next year
  2. An outline of the results of the last financial year compared with the previous budget estimates
  3. Proposed changes in taxes and expenditure allocations
  1.    1 only
  2.    3 only
  3.    1 and 2
  4.    1, 2 and 3
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> 1, 2 and 3
Answer: (d)Annual financial statement gives various information for the current, last and next year
Question 175. Consider the following statements with regard to Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR)
  1. To meet SLR, Commercial banks can use cash only.
  2. SLR is maintained by the banks with themselves.
  3. SLR restricts the banks leverage in pumping more money into the economy.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
  1.    2 and 3
  2.    1 and 3
  3.    1, 2 and 3
  4.    only 2
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> 2 and 3
Answer: (a)SLR used by bankers indicates the minimum percentage of deposits that the banks have to maintain in the form of gold, cash or other approved securities..
Question 176. The permission given to a bank customer to draw cheques in excess of his current account balance is called
  1.    an overdraft
  2.    an ordinary loan
  3.    a personal loan
  4.    discounting a bill of exchange
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> an overdraft
Answer: (a)
Overdrafts are an extension of credit from a lending institution when an account reaches zero.
An overdraft allows the individual to continue withdrawing money even if the account has no funds in it. Basically, the bank allows people to borrow a set amount of money.
An overdraft occurs when money is withdrawn from a bank account and the available balance goes below zero. In this situation, the account is said to be “overdrawn.”
Question 177. ‘Gold’ is mainly related to
  1.    Regional market
  2.    National market
  3.    Local market
  4.    International market
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> International market
Answer: (d)
Gold is mainly related to the international market as of all the precious metals, it is the most popular as an investment.
Gold has been used throughout history as money and has been a relative standard for currency equivalents specific to economic regions or countries, until recent times.
The gold price has shown a long term correlation with the price of crude oil.
Question 178. By whom was the autonomous investment separated from induced investment ?
  1.    Adam Smith
  2.    Malthus
  3.    Schumpeter
  4.    Joan Robinson
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Schumpeter
Answer: (c)
Under his concept of creative destruction, Schumpeter distinguished between two types of investment that he called induced and autonomous.
Induced investment arose from the discrepancy between supply and demand and autonomous investment from resources and technology created by the entrepreneurs.
He also introduced a concept of "saving up" which is different from saving in the neoclassical growth models. Saving up constituted the part of the output that is withheld from investment and consumption.
Question 179. An instrument of qualitative credit control is
  1.    Open market operations
  2.    Credit rationing
  3.    variable reserve ratio
  4.    Bank rate
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Credit rationing
Answer: (b)
Question 180. According to the provisions of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management [FRBM]. Act, 2003 and FRBM Rules, 2004, the Government is under obligation to present three statements before the parliament along with the Annual Budget. Which one of the following is not one of them?
  1.    Medium-term Fiscal Policy Statement
  2.    Fiscal Policy Strategy Statement
  3.    Macroeconomic Framework Statement
  4.    Statement showing Short term Fiscal Policy
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Statement showing Short term Fiscal Policy
Answer: (d)The Act requires the government to lay before the parliament three policy statements in each financial year namely Medium Term Fiscal Policy Statement; Fiscal Policy Strategy Statement and Macroeconomic Framework Policy Statement.

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