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The economy is studied as a whole through national income, gross domestic product, inflation, unemployment, economic growth and business cycles. Coverage includes aggregate demand and supply, consumption and investment, money and banking, fiscal and monetary policy, exchange rates and balance of payments, which distinguishes macroeconomics from the study of individual markets.

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  • A. the currency exchange rate
  • B. the difference between the value of visible exports and visible imports
  • C. The government's policies to increase exports
  • D. the rate at which exports are exchanged for imports

Explanation: Terms of trade measure the rate at which a country's exports exchange for imports, usually expressed through export prices relative to…

Correct answer: the rate at which exports are exchanged for imports
  • A. Government pensioners
  • B. Creditors
  • C. Savings Bank Account holders
  • D. Debtors

Explanation: Inflation reduces the real value of money owed, so debtors repay loans with money that buys less than when it was borrowed.

Correct answer: Debtors
  • A. Money lenders
  • B. Central Bank
  • C. Private entrepreneurs
  • D. Government policy

Explanation: The central bank conducts monetary policy by influencing interest rates, money supply and credit conditions.

Correct answer: Central Bank
  • A. Inflation
  • B. Hyper-inflation
  • C. Deflation
  • D. Disinflation

Explanation: Hyperinflation is an exceptionally rapid and uncontrolled rise in prices that severely destroys money's purchasing power.

Correct answer: Hyper-inflation
  • A. Fall in production
  • B. Increase in prices
  • C. Stagflation
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Inflation is fundamentally a sustained rise in the general price level, so an increase in prices is its essential feature.

Correct answer: Increase in prices
  • A. Embargoes
  • B. Foreign exchange controls
  • C. Quotas
  • D. Tariffs

Explanation: A tariff is a tax on imports, and the added cost normally raises their domestic price.

Correct answer: Tariffs
  • A. after tax
  • B. allowing for change in prices.
  • C. Plus, benefits in kind
  • D. plus, overtime payments.

Explanation: Real wage measures the purchasing power of a money wage after allowing for changes in the price level.

Correct answer: allowing for change in prices.
  • A. Certificate issued by a company promising the payment of a specified amount at a fixed rate of interest after a specified period
  • B. Certificate for the investment in shares
  • C. Certificate for the preference share
  • D. None of these

Explanation: A debenture is a company's debt certificate promising repayment of a specified principal, usually with fixed interest, at a stated…

Correct answer: Certificate issued by a company promising the payment of a specified amount at a fixed rate of interest after a specified period
  • A. Rise in budget deficit
  • B. Rise in money supply
  • C. Rise in general price index
  • D. Reflection

Explanation: Inflation is identified by a sustained rise in the general price index, not merely by a larger budget deficit or money supply.

Correct answer: Rise in general price index
  • 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, commonly by a worker to people in another place or country.

Correct answer: Both of them
  • A. Domestication
  • B. Protectionism
  • C. Localization
  • D. National interest

Explanation: Protectionism is the policy of shielding domestic producers from foreign competition through measures such as tariffs, quotas, or import…

Correct answer: Protectionism
  • 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 nation’s factors of production during a period…

Correct answer: Gross National product (GNP)
  • A. Open trade
  • B. Free trade
  • C. Open sky trade
  • D. Easy trade

Explanation: Free trade means international trade without artificial barriers such as tariffs, quotas, or foreign-exchange controls.

Correct answer: Free trade
  • A. Embargo
  • B. Contraband
  • C. Ban
  • D. Restriction

Explanation: An embargo is a government order prohibiting or severely restricting trade in specified goods, or trade with a particular country.

Correct answer: Embargo
  • A. Devolution
  • B. Devaluation
  • C. Price cap
  • D. Cut-rate

Explanation: Devaluation is an official reduction in the value of a country's currency against foreign currencies, usually under a fixed or managed…

Correct answer: Devaluation
  • A. Malaysia
  • B. China
  • C. Russia
  • D. USA

Explanation: Malaysia has historically been recognized as a major, and in many standard general-knowledge sources the leading, exporter of tin.

Correct answer: Malaysia
  • A. Tin
  • B. Silver
  • C. Aluminum
  • D. Gold

Explanation: Mexico is the world’s leading silver producer and a major exporter, making silver the intended mineral.

Correct answer: Silver
  • A. Mexico
  • B. USA
  • C. Brazil
  • D. Australia

Explanation: Brazil is the world’s leading coffee exporter, especially because of its very large Arabica and Robusta production.

Correct answer: Brazil
  • A. Value of all economic activity within nation's border
  • B. Economic output of a country
  • C. Economic activity of federal government
  • D. None of these

Explanation: GDP measures the market value of final goods and services produced within a country’s borders during a period.

Correct answer: Value of all economic activity within nation's border
  • A. End benefit
  • B. Trickle down
  • C. Free market
  • D. Capitalism

Explanation: Trickle-down theory claims that supporting businesses and higher-income investors will increase investment and activity, eventually…

Correct answer: Trickle down