A. The percentage spent on food rises
B. The percentage spent on housing increases
C. The percentage spent on other categories increase
D. The percentage spent on savings remains constant
Related Mcqs:
- Suppose your income rises from Rs19,000 to Rs31,000 while the CPI rises from 122 to 169 Your standard of living has likely ?
A. fallen
B. You can’t tell without knowing the base year
C. risen
D. stayed the same - The World Bank’s GNP per capita classification for low income middle income and high income countries respectively is ?
A. less than $900, $900-$9000 and more than $9000
B. less than $5000, $5000-$15000 and more than $15000
C. less than $100, $100-$1000 and more than $1000
D. less than $5000, $5000-$150000 and more than $150000 - A tax for which high income taxpayers pay a smaller fraction of their income than do low income taxpayers is known as ?
A. a proportional tax
B. a regressive tax
C. an equitable tax
D. a progressive tax - If the income tax rate changes from 30% to 40% on income over Rs30,000 and a person’s income is Rs 31,000 then her marginal tax rate is ?
A. 30%
B. 10%
C. 70%
D. 40% - If GNP of Pakistan rises. it will encourage ?
A. Exports
B. Imports
C. Both
D. None - Suppose the price level falls but because of fixed nominal wage contracts the real wage rises and firms cut back on production This is a demonstration of the ?
A. sticky-wage theory of the short-run aggregate supply curve
B. classical dichotomy theory of the short-run aggregate supply curve
C. misperceptions theory of the short-run aggregate supply curve
D. sticky-price theory of the short run aggregate supply curve - _______ states that as real GNP per capita rises, people demand relatively more social goods and relatively fewer private goods?
A. incomes policy
B. Moral hazard
C. Wagner’s law
D. Fiscal policy - When the $/£ exchange rate rises the pound _____ and when the $/£ rates falls the pound ________?
A. depreciates, appreciates
B. revalues, devalues
C. appreciates, depreciates
D. becomes more expensive becomes cheaper - Given the foreign currency market for the Swiss franc, the supply of franc slopes upward, because as the dollar price of the franc rises ?
A. America’s demand for Swiss merchandise rises
B. America’s demand for Swiss merchandise falls
C. Switzerland’s demand for American merchandise rises
D. Switzerland’s demand for American merchandise falls - A progressive income tax means that those with a higher income pay ?
A. a higher percentage of their income in taxes then low income people
B. a lower percentage of their income in taxes than low income people
C. the same percentage of their income in taxes as low income people all the taxes in the economy.
D. all the taxes in the economy
