Nominal GNP measures income ?

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. Because in-kind transfers are not accounted for in standard measures of income distribution the standard measures of income distribution ?

   A. accurately represent the true inequality of living standards
   B. understate the inequality of living standards
   C. exaggerate the inequality of living standards
   D. could exaggerate of understate the inequality of living standards depending on whether the transfers are goods or services.

3. Real GNP measures income ?

   A. including non-market activities
   B. adjusted for inflation
   C. including externalities
   D. including tax evasion

4. Tuvalu is composed of 9 coral atolls along a 360-mile chain in Polynesia They gained independence in 1978 The former Ellice Island are home to 9,700 people if GNP of Tuvalu is $300 million in 2005 GNP per capital is ?

   A. 9700 (1978 / 2005)
   B. 300 / 360
   C. 300 000 000 / 9700
   D. 32.333

5. If GNP for Vatican City the smallest country in the world is 200 million euros in year 2011 and its population is 890 GNP per capita is_____________?

   A. 2000 – 890
   B. 200/890
   C. 200,000,000/890
   D. 200

6. How has the relative gap between GNP per capita for Western Europe and GNP per capita for African less-developed countries changed from the late nineteenth century to the present ?

   A. declined
   B. increased
   C. remained the same
   D. cannot be determined

7. Suppose that the nominal tariff rate on finished computers is 12 percent and that the weighted average of the nominal tariff rates on the inputs used in producing computers is 18 percent. Thus, the effective rate of protection for the computer industry must ?

   A. be less than 12 percent and can be negative
   B. be less than 12 percent but must be greater than zero
   C. equal 6 percent
   D. exceed 30 percent

8. If nominal GDP in 2005 exceeds nominal GDP in 2004, then the production of output ?

   A. must have fallen
   B. must have risen
   C. must have stayed the same
   D. may have risen fallen, or stayed the same because there is not enough information to determine what happened to real output

9. 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

10. 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