JAMB UTME - Economics - 1985
Ibeere 1 Ìròyìn
The interdependence between households and business enterprises illustrated in the figure is known as
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Ibeere 4 Ìròyìn
The petro- chemical industries are located in the River State of Nigeria due to?
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Ibeere 6 Ìròyìn
The table illustrates the law of diminishing returns on a farm. Which pair of the following answers is appropriate for the missing information in the spaces market X and Y?
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Ibeere 7 Ìròyìn
Which of the following factors is mostly responsible for the concentration of population around the oil fields in Eastern Nigeria?
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Ibeere 8 Ìròyìn
If an economy grows at an annual rate of 6%, of which is deemed to be due to improvement in the productivity of labour and capital combined, the remaining 2% is generally attributed to
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Ibeere 10 Ìròyìn
A corporation can obtain funds by issuing bonds. A bond is a form of debt which falls due to repayment after?
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Ibeere 11 Ìròyìn
Study the figure above. At paint H the price elasticity of supply is
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Ibeere 12 Ìròyìn
Which of the following is NOT among the canons of taxation as set out by Adam Smith?
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Ibeere 13 Ìròyìn
Bisi needs a book costing N10.00 and a hat costing N10.00. If Bisi buys the book instead of the hat, the opportunity cost of his choice is the?
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Ibeere 14 Ìròyìn
Devaluation of the naira as a condition for the international Monetary Fund 'loan' is considered inadvisable because?
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Ibeere 15 Ìròyìn
Warehousing facilities in the distribution and marketing of products are provided by?
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Ibeere 16 Ìròyìn
The amount of labour a producer hires relative to labour factor inputs depends on the?
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Ibeere 19 Ìròyìn
The argument of tariff protection in less developed economies is that such a measure would
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Ibeere 24 Ìròyìn
The inefficient distribution of scarce commodities in Nigeria is mostly due to the?
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Ibeere 25 Ìròyìn
Under the ECOWAS agreement, a Nigerian can enter and stay in Ghana without visa for a period of?
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Ibeere 26 Ìròyìn
The process by which a country attempts to reduce the import of manufactured goods at home is described as?
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Ibeere 27 Ìròyìn
Which of the following is NOT a part of the fixed costs of a limited liability company?
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Ibeere 28 Ìròyìn
One theory of population contends that population tends to increase much faster than the supply of food, and that if the growth in population is not checked , it will be checked by natural forces like misery disasters and food shortages. This theory was propounded by?
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Ibeere 29 Ìròyìn
Optimum population is desirable because it enables an economy to obtain maximum?
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Ibeere 30 Ìròyìn
Tax which is levied on goods manufactured, sold or used within a country is?
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Ibeere 34 Ìròyìn
An example of a regressive tax is?
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Examples of regressive taxes include sales taxes, user fees and, arguably, property taxes.
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In the figure above, the broken line labelled M is the marginal revenue curve of a
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Ibeere 38 Ìròyìn
If monopoly is attempting to maximize profit which of the following should it attempt to do?
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Ibeere 39 Ìròyìn
How many National Development Plans did Nigeria have between 1960 and 1984?
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Ibeere 40 Ìròyìn
If in the short-run commodity X and commodity Y are supplied jointly, which of the following is correct?
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Ibeere 45 Ìròyìn
The act of combining factor inputs in order to obtain specific output is known as
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Ibeere 46 Ìròyìn
Under normal circumstances a producer will bear the entire burden of taxation on his output if the?
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Ibeere 47 Ìròyìn
Which of the following is a necessary prerequisite for trade by barter?
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Ibeere 50 Ìròyìn
By terms of trade, we mean the?
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Terms of trade (TOT) refers to the relative price of imports in terms of exports and is defined as the ratio of export prices to import prices. It can be interpreted as the amount of import goods an economy can purchase per unit of export goods.
