JAMB UTME - Economics - 1978

Which of the following item in the balance of payment of account is an invisible transaction?

The advantage of sole proprietorship is as follow

Economics is called a social science because it is

In economics, production is complete when

Opportunity cost is a term which describe

Which of the following can be regarded as a liability of a commercial bank?

Marginal cost is

Price control cannot work in Nigeria because

The foreign exchange market is a market where

In order to build up its capital stock, the typical less developed country should ideally

When elasticity is zero, the demand curve is

A distinguishing characteristics of a consumers' cooperative is the fact that

Which of the following activities of government precludes the existence of a market economy?

Which of these would not be included in the fundamental principle of a free enterprise economy

The Lagos clearing house is

The effect of the demand for product A caused by a change in the price of a product B is called?

If a company doubles all its inputs and discovers that its output is more than doubles, we can say that the company is experiencing

Which of the following is a term used to describe a payment representing a surplus in excess of transfer costs?

The following is NOT a reason for the existence of small firms

Which of these would NOT increase population of a country

Which of the following is not a form of business organization

A budget deficit means

As consumption of beer increases, its marginal utility to a drinker will

Which of the following statements is true?

Which of the following is NOT strictly included In the study of economics?

In the diagram equilibrium price is:

Which is NOT a direct effort to increase Agricultural production in Nigeria?

If the demand of a product with perfectly elastic supply increases, there will be

A country has a surplus in its balance of visible trade if

Which of the following sector of the economy is estimated to be the largest employer of labour in the country

Suppose that the equilibrium price of an article is N5.00 but the government fixes the price by law at N4.00, the supply will be

Which is an example of an invisible item in the trade Account of Ghana?

The numerical measure of elasticity is

The biggest source of government revenue in Nigeria is

Which of the following financial assets consist the lowest rate of interest in Nigeria?

A rational consumer will adjust his spending pattern so that

A commercial bank is unique in that it is only the institution that

Inferior goods are referred to in Economics as goods

Bondholders are treated more favorably than shareholders because

An increase in liquid reserve requirements by the central bank of Nigeria will result in

By ‘trade by barter’, we mean

If the consumer demand for product X increases as the price of product Y decreases we can be fairly certain that X

The largest liability appearing in the book of a commercial bank is

Malthus became famous through his theory which may be stated simply

The expression ‘terms of trade’ is used to describe

Less developed countries obtain foreign exchange reserve mainly from the export of

The optimum population of a country is reached when

Disposable income is the same thing as

A Tax which takes a higher percentage from higher incomes is called?

Which of these should determine, in a planned economy how the factor of production are to be allocated among different production activities