A. Taxes on international trade are the major source of tax revenue for low-income countries with poor administrative capacity
B. import duties can restrict luxury goods consumption
C. several LDCs have used value-added taxes to raise a substantial fraction of revenues
D. Cascade tax a form of progressive tax, is dominant in DCs
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following is Not true about external debt ?
A. External debt accumulates with international balance on goods services and income deficcits
B. When debts are denominated in U.S dollars their appreciation during the 1990s increased the cost of servicing such debts
C. In the 19901s LDCs relied increasingly on aid from DCs
D. International lenders required LDC governments to guarantee private debt - Which of the following statement is Not true ?
A. The ratio of debt service to GNP is very good indicator of the debt burden
B. Many large LDC debtors borrowed heavily because of their excellent international credit ratings
C. Middle income countries account for almost four-fifths of the total outstanding debt of all LDCs
D. The debt-burden of sub Saharan African countries may be as heavy as for middle income countries - If the public consumes Rs 100 billion less and the government purchases Rs100 billion more (other things unchanging), Which of the following statement is true ?
A. Saving is unchanged
B. There is an increased in saving and the economy should grow more quickly
C. There is a decrease in saving and the economy should grow more slowly
D. There is not enough information to determine what will happen to saving - Which of the following statements about price and marginal cost in competitive and monopolized markets is true ?
A. In competitive markets, price equals marginal cost, in monopolized markets price exceeds marginal cost.
B. In competitive markets price equals marginal cost, in monopolized markets price equals marginal cost
C. In competitive markets price exceeds marginal cost, in monopolized markets price exceeds marginal cost
D. In competitive markets price exceeds marginal cost in monopolized markets price equals marginal cost - Which of the following statements about efficiency wage theory is true ?
A. Paying above the competitive equilibrium wage tends to cause workers to shirk their responsibilities
B. Firms do not have a choice about whether they pay efficiency wages or not because these wages are determined by law
C. Paying the lowest possible wage is always the most efficient (Profitable)
D. Paying above the competitive equilibrium wage may improve worker health lower worker turnover improve worker quality and increase worker effort - Which of the following is true regarding tradable pollution permits and Pigouvian taxes ?
A. All of these answers are true
B. Pigouvian taxes and tradable pollution permits create an efficient market for pollution.
C. Tradable pollution permits efficiently reduce pollution only if they are initially distributed to the firms that can regulator pollution at the lowest cost.
D. To set the quantity of pollution with tradable pollution permits, the regulator must know everything about the demand for pollution rights.
E. Pigovian taxes are more likely to reduce pollution to a targeted amount than tradable pollution permits. - Which of the following is True about HIV/AIDS ?
I- Women comprised 58 percent of HIV-positive adults in the Sub-Sahara
II- AIDs infection rates in Africa are highest among urban high
III- in 2001 40 million people with HIV/AIDS lived in sub-Saharan Africa
IV- Since 1981 120 million people have died of AIDSA. I and II only
B. III and IV only
C. I, II and III only
D. I, II , III and IV - Which of the following statements regarding the market for foreign currency exchange is true ?
A. An increase in Pakistan’s net exports decreases the supply of rupees and the rupees depreciates
B. An increase in Pakistan’s net exports increase the demand for rupees and the rupees appreciates
C. An increase in Pakistan’s net exports increases the Supply of rupees and the rupees depreciates
D. An increase in Pakistan’s net exports decrease the demand for rupees and the rupees appreciates - Which of the following statements is true ?
A. All costs are fixed in the short run.
B. All costs are variable in the long run
C. All costs are variable in the short run
D. All costs are fixed in the long run - Which of the following statements about microeconomics and macroeconomics is not true ?
A. The study of very large industries is a topic within macroeconomics
B. Macroeconomics is concerned with economy-wide phenomena
C. Microeconomics is a building block for macroeconomics
D. Microeconomics and macroeconomics cannot be entirely separated
