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Economic Indicators

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The Atlas method of World Bank is used to estimate

  1. personal disposable income

  2. poverty head count ratio

  3. wholesale price index

  4. gross national income


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The Atlas method is a method used by the World Bank to estimate the size of economies in terms of gross national income (GNI) in U.S. dollars. A country's GNI in local (national) currency is converted into U.S. dollars using the Atlas conversion factor, which uses a three-year average of exchange rates to smooth effects of transitory exchange rate fluctuations, adjusted for the difference between the rate of inflation in the country (using the country's GDP deflator), and that in a number of developed countries (using a weighted average of the countries' GDP deflators in SDR terms). The resulting GNI in U.S. dollars is divided by the country's midyear population to obtain the GNI per capita.

What are 'acyclical indicators'?

  1. Indicators that move in the same direction as the general economy

  2. Indicators that move in the direction opposite to the general economy

  3. Indicators that have no correlation with the business cycles

  4. Indicators that are used to indicate a shift in the direction of growth of the economy


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Acyclical indicators are those with little or no correlation to the business cycle: they may rise or fall when the general economy is doing well, and may rise or fall when it is not doing well.

What is classical unemployment?

  1. In which supply of labour exceeds demand for labour
  2. In which real wages are set above the market wages
  1. Only 1

  2. Only 2

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. Neither 1 nor 2


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Classical or real wage unemployment occurs when real wages for a job are set above the market-clearing level, causing the number of job seekers to exceed the number of vacancies.

Consider the following facts about core inflation.

  1. It is measured for a short period of time.
  2. Items with volatile price fluctuations are excluded from its calculation.

Which of the above statements is/ are correct?

  1. 1 only

  2. 2 only

  3. 1 and 2 both

  4. Neither 1 nor 2


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Core inflation represents the long run trend in the price level. In measuring long run inflation, transitory price changes should be excluded. One way of accomplishing this is by excluding items frequently subject to volatile prices, like food and energy.

Consider the following statements.

  1. Consumer Price Index in India is reported by the Central Statistical Organisation, under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.
  2. The CPI reached its all-time high figure in January 2013.
  3. The CPI witnessed its lowest all-time figure in April, 1960.

Which of the above are true?

  1. 1 and 2

  2. 2 and 3

  3. 1 and 3

  4. All three


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Consumer Price Index (CPI) in India is reported by the Labour Bureau, Government of India. Historically, from 1960 until 2013, India Consumer Price Index (CPI) averaged 54.45 Index Points reaching an all time high of 221 Index Points in January of 2013 and a record low of 4.32 Index Points in April of 1960.

Which of the following statements is/are true?

  1. CPI is calculated for a basket of goods and services.
  2. The annual percentage change in CPI is used as an approximation of GDP increase in an economy.
  3. Items included in sample basket are accorded same weights in CPI calculation.
  1. Only 1

  2. Only 1 and 2

  3. 1, 2 and 3

  4. Only 2 and 3

  5. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

 

Stock market returns may be classified as

  1. leading indicator

  2. lagging indicator

  3. coincident indicator

  4. acyclic indicator


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Leading indicators are indicators that usually change before the economy as a whole changes. They are therefore useful as short-term predictors of the economy. Stock market returns are a leading indicator: the stock market usually begins to decline before the economy as a whole declines and usually begins to improve before the general economy begins to recover from a slump.

Which of the following statements do(es) not define GDP correctly?

  1. The final value of goods and services produced
  2. By the national income of a nation
  3. In a calendar year
  1. 1 and 2

  2. 2 and 3

  3. 1 and 3

  4. Only 3


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

GDP is the final value of all goods and services produced within the domestic territory of a country in a fiscal (and not a calendar) year. GDP includes the value of goods and services produced by foreign nationals on the domestic territory of a country. Gross national product includes the final value of goods and services produced by the nationals of a nation, even those working abroad.

National income is the same as

  1. national product
  2. national expenditure
  3. national transfer
  1. 1 and 2

  2. 2 and 3

  3. 1 and 3

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The amount received as national income is identical to the amount spent as national expenditure, which is also identical to what is produced as national output. Throughout macroeconomics, the terms income, output and expenditure are interchangeable.

In which decade since independence has India witnessed the lowest decadal GDP growth rate (2.9%)?

  1. 1950s

  2. 1960s

  3. 1970s

  4. 1980s


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct answer is (3). 

What are ‘leading indicators’?

  1. Indicators that change before the economy as a whole changes

  2. Indicators that change after the economy as a whole changes

  3. Indicators that change along with the economy

  4. Indicators that themselves remain unchanged, but predict a change in the economy as a whole

  5. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

 

The Indian WPI is updated on a

  1. weekly basis (every Thursday)

  2. monthly basis

  3. bi-monthly basis

  4. quarterly basis


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The Indian WPI figure was earlier released weekly on every Thursday and influenced stock and fixed price markets. The Indian WPI is now updated on a monthly basis.

The Annual Survey of Industries is conducted under the statutory provisions of the Collection of Statistics Act, 1953. To which of the following states does the ASI not extend?

  1. Sikkim
  2. Mizoram
  3. Arunachal Pradesh
  1. 1 and 2

  2. 2 and 3

  3. 1 and 3

  4. All of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The ASI extends to the entire nation, except the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Mizoram and the Union Territory of Lakshadweep.

The domestic savings have been an important driver of growth in the Indian economy. The domestic savings rate peaked at 36.8% in the year

  1. 1981-82

  2. 1992-93

  3. 2000-01

  4. 2007-08


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The volume and composition of domestic savings in India have undergone significant changes over the years. The savings rate (gross domestic savings as percentage of gross domestic product at market prices) averaged 18.6 percent in the 1980s and 23 percent in the 1990s. The savings rate exceeded 30 percent for the first time in 2004-05 and has remained above that level ever since. It peaked in 2007-08 at 36.8 percent.

Among the larger economies of the world, during 2012-13 fiscal, only two grew at a rate greater than India - one was China and the other was

  1. Indonesia

  2. Malaysia

  3. Germany

  4. France


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

As per the speech of Finance Minister during budget presentation for the fiscal 2013-14, only China and Indonesia grew at a rate greater than India during the 2012-13 fiscal. 

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