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  • A. A currency substitutes
  • B. Coins
  • C. De-valued currency
  • D. Silver

Explanation: Artificial currency refers to a currency substitute used in place of official money, such as tokens or other substitute instruments.

Correct answer: A currency substitutes
  • A. Income from export
  • B. Difference between imports and exports
  • C. Income from imports
  • D. All of them

Explanation: The trade balance measures the difference between the value of a country’s exports and imports, usually expressed as exports minus…

Correct answer: Difference between imports and exports
  • A. Application of science to achieve a commercial or industrial objective
  • B. Application of modern science in the country
  • C. Science based know low
  • D. All of thesePolitical Science Mcqs

Explanation: Technology is the practical application of scientific knowledge and know-how to achieve useful commercial or industrial results.

Correct answer: Application of science to achieve a commercial or industrial objective
  • A. Prudent development
  • B. Sustainable development
  • C. Managed economy
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Sustainable development meets present needs while preserving resources and opportunities for future generations.

Correct answer: Sustainable development
  • A. Sending of money to someone at distance
  • B. The sum of money sent
  • C. Both of them
  • D. None of them

Explanation: Remittance can mean both the act of sending money and the money sent, especially funds transferred by workers to people in another place…

Correct answer: Both of them
  • A. Price index
  • B. Price indexing
  • C. Price fixing
  • D. Price choosing

Explanation: A price index compares the prices of a selected group of goods with their prices in a chosen base period, usually setting the base at 100.

Correct answer: Price index
  • A. Market Economy
  • B. Harvard Group
  • C. Keynesian
  • D. London Group

Explanation: Keynesian economics derives from the work of John Maynard Keynes and supports using fiscal and monetary policies to influence demand and…

Correct answer: Keynesian
  • A. Gross Domestic Product (GOP)
  • B. Gross National output (GNO)
  • C. Gross National Product (GNP)
  • D. Gross National output

Explanation: Gross National Product measures the value of final goods and services produced by a country's nationals during a period, including net…

Correct answer: Gross National Product (GNP)
  • A. God standard system
  • B. Gold based system
  • C. Bullion standard system
  • D. None of the above

Explanation: Under the gold standard, currency is convertible into a specified quantity of gold at a fixed rate on demand.

Correct answer: God standard system
  • A. Currency exchange
  • B. Currency value
  • C. Currency value
  • D. Exchange rate

Explanation: An exchange rate expresses the value of one currency in terms of another currency, gold, or an international accounting unit such as the…

Correct answer: Exchange rate
  • A. Advance deduction of the interest in purchasing, selling or lending a commercial paper
  • B. State (central) Bank's interest rate on loans to its member banks
  • C. Both of them
  • D. None of them

Explanation: The discount rate can refer to the rate applied when commercial paper is discounted and, in monetary policy, to the central bank's lending…

Correct answer: Both of them
  • A. Decreasing business activity
  • B. Falling prices
  • C. Unemployment
  • D. All of these

Explanation: A depression is a severe and prolonged contraction in economic activity, typically involving falling prices, declining business activity…

Correct answer: All of these
  • A. Economic Cycle
  • B. Business Cycle
  • C. Complete Cycle
  • D. Cycle Business

Explanation: The business cycle is the recurring pattern of recession, recovery, expansion or growth, and decline in overall economic activity.

Correct answer: Business Cycle
  • A. Balance of payment
  • B. Balance sheet
  • C. Terms of trade
  • D. Balance of trade

Explanation: The balance of trade is the difference between the value of a country’s exports and imports of goods over a specified period.

Correct answer: Balance of trade
  • A. Breton Wood method
  • B. Free market exchange rate
  • C. Atlas method of exchange rate
  • D. Open market exchange rate

Explanation: The World Bank’s Atlas method converts national income into a common dollar measure by using an exchange-rate average adjusted for…

Correct answer: Atlas method of exchange rate
  • A. adjusting for changes over time
  • B. adjusting for data collection errors
  • C. adjusting for population changes
  • D. adjusting or changes in prices

Explanation: A nominal value is converted into a real value by removing the effect of price changes, usually through a price index.

Correct answer: adjusting or changes in prices
  • A. about the same point in time over different places
  • B. about different points in time over the same variable
  • C. about different variables over different places
  • D. about different points in time over different places

Explanation: Time-series data track the same variable at different points in time, such as Pakistan’s inflation rate over several years.

Correct answer: about different points in time over the same variable
  • A. individual building blocks in the economy
  • B. the relationship between different sectors on the economy
  • C. household purchase decisions
  • D. the economy as a whole

Explanation: Macroeconomics examines economy-wide outcomes such as national income, unemployment, inflation, and economic growth.

Correct answer: the economy as a whole
  • A. there is excess demand in the labour market
  • B. there are some people who will not work at the going wage rate.
  • C. people are not willing to work at the going wage rate.
  • D. at the going wage rate, there are people who want to work but cannot find work.

Explanation: Unemployment exists when people who are willing and able to work at the prevailing wage cannot find jobs.

Correct answer: at the going wage rate, there are people who want to work but cannot find work.
  • A. a decrease in the overall price level.
  • B. an increase in the overall price level.
  • C. an increase in the overall level of economic activity.
  • D. a decrease in the overall level of economics activity

Explanation: Inflation is a sustained rise in the general or overall price level, which reduces the purchasing power of money.

Correct answer: an increase in the overall price level.