Income inequalities are often shown on a ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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%

4. In food demand growth equation D = Φ + a E, a is the income elasticity of demand for food E is the per capita income growth and Φ is ?

   A. Poverty rates
   B. food security index
   C. change in the quantity of food demanded per capita
   D. population growth

5. Within the circular flow of income, an increase in domestic income will tend to increase ?

   A. exports
   B. taxes
   C. inventories
   D. imports

6. A tax whose burden expressed as a percentage of income, falls as income increases is a ?

   A. benefits received tax
   B. progressive tax
   C. regressive tax
   D. proportional tax

7. Because people’s income vary other the life cycle and because there are transitory shocks to people’s incomes the standard measures of income distribution ?

   A. exaggerate the inequality of living standards
   B. could exaggerate or understate the inequality of living standards depending on whether the transitory shocks are positive or negative
   C. understate the inequality of living standards
   D. accurately represent the true inequality of living standards

8. 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

9. Imagine there is no tax on income up to Rs 1000 after that there is a tax of 505 what is the average tax rate on an income of Rs 20,000 ?

   A. Rs 50000
   B. 20%
   C. 25%
   D. Rs 10000

10. Assume that the real income of developing Island increases from $120,000 to $160,000 from 2005 to 2006 while its population expands from 1000 to 1100 during the same period Real income per capita has increased by about ?

    A. $145
    B. $40,000
    C. $25
    D. $100