NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Economics MCQs (Practice_Test 14 of 122)
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- Which one of the following pairs (Author-Book) is not correctly matched?
- Match Item 1: Simon Kuznets
- Match Item 2: Asian Drama
- Match Item 1: Robinson J
- Match Item 2: Essays in the Theory of economic Growth.
- Match Item 1: Karl Marx
- Match Item 2: Das Capital
- Match Item 1: Arthur W Lewise
- Match Item 2: Theory of economic Growth
- The mercantilist theory of economic growth is primarily concerned with an increase in the
- volume of money in circulation through the import of gold
- size of population
- state intervention for the creation of conditions for efficient entrepreurial function.
- surplus in the balance of trade.
- assuming capital-output ratio to be 3: 1 and population growth to be 2.5% per annum, a 10% increase in investment will lead to an increase in per capital income to the extent of
- 0%
- 1.0%
- 3.0%
- 7.0%
- Harrods natural a rate of growth is
- the rate of growth which the increase of population and technical improvement allow
- the rate of growth which will satisfy profit makers that hey have done the right thing.
- the actual rate of growth
- the increase in the rate of capital accumulation.
- ‘Economic Development with unlimited Supplies of Labour’ is a model of development enunciated by
- income-generating
- income-depressing
- investment-inducing
- market-expanding
- Leibenstein in his Critical Minimum Effort thesis treats population as a factor that is
- income-generating
- income-depressing
- investment-inducing
- market-expanding
- Which one of the following features, according to Kuznes, is the most important characteristic of modern economic growth?
- Social and ideological transformation
- structural transformation
- High productivity of factors of production.
- High rate of growth of per capital production.
- UNCTAD is the acronym of
- United nations committee of Technical Assistance for Development.
- United nations centre for trade, Aid and Development
- United Nations Conference on trade and Development
- United nations Commission on
- Transfer of Aid for Development.
- According to Fisher-Clark thesis which one of the following is the correct sequence of shift of resources from one sector to the other for the continuity of development?
- Agriculture-Services-manufacturing
- Agriculture-Manufacturing-Services
- Manufacturing-Service-Agriculture
- manufacturing-agriculture-services
- Consider the following statements: In the estimates of growth of the United States, residual grow is attributed by Denison to
- 1 alone is correct
- 1 and 2 are correct
- 1,2 and 3 are correct
- 1,3 and 4 are correct
- One or more the following economists seemed to have argued that international trade was detrimental to the industrialization of the developing countries:
- Gunnar Mydral
- Raul Prebisch
- harberler
- David Ricardo
- Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
- 2 and 3
- 3 and 4
- 1 and 4
- 1 and 2
- The First Five year Plan of the Government of India was based on
- Leontief input-output model
- Harrod-domar model
- Mahalanobis two-sector model
- Mahalanobis four-sector model
- ‘Economic drain’ theory was popularized by
- the Britishers in India
- Dadabhai Naoroji
- Vera Anstey
- V V Bhatt
- In which sector, expenditure method is used in India for calculating national income?
- the agricultural sector
- the mining sector
- the construction sector
- The transportation sector
- Which one of the following was the percentage of urban population in India, as per 1991 census?
- 20.13
- 22.8
- 25.72
- 30.13