WAEC Economics Past Questions & Answers - Page 160

796.

Where the burden of a tax finally rests is called

A.

Tax object

B.

Tax rate

C.

Incidence of taxation

D.

System of taxation

Correct answer is C

No explanation has been provided for this answer.

797.

Which of the following is a form of tax evasion?

A.

Wrong declaration of earnings

B.

Payment of flat rate tax

C.

Constant change of employment

D.

Low capacity utilization

Correct answer is A

No explanation has been provided for this answer.

798.

In a rapidly growing economy, a change in technology which is labour saving is likely to cause

A.

Residual unemployment

B.

Structural unemployment

C.

Disguised unemployment

D.

Frictional unemployment

Correct answer is B

The concept of structural unemployment, a lasting level of joblessness that does not disappear even at the high point of the business cycle, became popular in the 1960s. For pessimists, technological unemployment is one of the factors driving the wider phenomena of structural unemployment.

Since the 1980s, even optimistic economists have increasingly accepted that structural unemployment has indeed risen in advanced economies, but they have tended to blame this on globalization and offshoring rather than technological change.

799.

A mixed economy combines the characteristics of both

A.

Planned and capitalist economies

B.

Exchange and subsistence economies

C.

Subsistence and planned economies

D.

Capital and exchange economies

Correct answer is A

No explanation has been provided for this answer.

800.

The economic system in which the state takes the economic decision s through detailed planning is

A.

Capitalism

B.

Socialism

C.

Traditional economic system

D.

Mixed economic system

Correct answer is B

No explanation has been provided for this answer.