Economics MCQs

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In food demand growth equation D = Φ + a E, a is the income elasticity of demand for food E is the per capita income growth and Φ is ?
A. Poverty rates
B. Food security index
C. Change in the quantity of food demanded per capita
D. Population growth
According to the classical economists the economy ?
A. Requires fine tuning to reach full employment
B. Can never deviate from full employment
C. Will never be at full employment
D. Is self-correcting.
Keynesian economics became popular because it was able to explain ?
A. Stagflation in the late 1970s
B. Demand-pull inflation in the 1960s
C. Low growth rates in the 1950s
D. The prolonged existence of high unemployment during the great depression
Amartya K. Sen emphasizes that having enough to eat depends on ?
A. Society’s system of entitlement
B. An egalitarian income distribution
C. Low poverty rates
D. Society’s high gini concentration
Which of the following is a form of urban bais ?
I- Government may set price floors on food and price ceilings for industrial goods
Ii- tax incentive and subsidies to infant industry
Iii- tariff and quota protection for industry
Iv- spending more for education training housing, health and transport in urban areas than in rural areas.