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Real Capital Formation requires ___________________.

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  1. An entrepreneurial class which is prepared to bear the risk of business

  2. Economic and industrial policies in which Investment is given initiative

  3. An inducement to invest, e.g. prospective rate of profit

  4. All of the above

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Correct Option: D

Inducement to Invest is influenced by _______________________.

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  1. Prospective Rate of Profit

  2. Rate of Interest

  3. Both (a) and (b)

  4. Neither (a) nor (b)

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Correct Option: C

In the pre-reforms period (i.e. before 1991), import permission was available primarily for _______________.

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  1. Consumer Goods

  2. Capital Goods

  3. Both (a) and (b)

  4. Neither (a) nor (b)

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Correct Option: B

Under Cobb- Douglas production function contribution of capital and labour respectively _________________.

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  1. $3/4^{th} , 1/4^{th}$

  2. $1/4^{th} , 3/4^{th}$

  3. 1/2, 1/2

  4. none of the above

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Correct Option: B

In the pre-reforms period (i.e. before 1991), import permission was available primarily for ________________.

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  1. Capital Equipment

  2. Machinery

  3. Industrial Raw Material

  4. All of the above

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Correct Option: D

Gross capital formation in India is very ___________.

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  1. high

  2. low

  3. uncertain

  4. dynamic

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Correct Option: B

Which capital includes durable consumer goods, inventories and intermediate goods?

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  1. Human capital.

  2. Physical capital.

  3. External capital.

  4. Floating capital.

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Correct Option: D

"Capital is the produced means of production". Who gave this definition?

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  1. Bohm Bawerk

  2. J.K. Hicks

  3. Von Sickle and Roger

  4. Prof. Samuelson

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Bohm Bawerk proclaimed that "Capital is the produced means of production". Capital is already a produced means as other factors of production are used to produce capital in an economy.

Which of the following is/are the stages of capital formation?

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  1. Creation of savings

  2. Effective mobilization of savings

  3. Investment in savings

  4. All of these

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:
The three stages of capital formation are:-
1) Creation of savings-Collective savings of individuals in an economy leads to creation of savings.
2) Effective mobilization of savings-Savings should be properly allocated to different purposes.
3) Investment in savings-Savings should be properly invested by the economy which will yield better productivity and help to increase the rate of existing capital formation.

Why is capital a passive factor of production?

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  1. Because it becomes ineffective without cooperation of labour

  2. Because it becomes ineffective without land

  3. Because it becomes ineffective without entrepreneurs

  4. Because it becomes ineffective without natural resources

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Without the presence of labour factor of production ,capital is of no use,hence capital is a passive factor of production. Without labour , capital will not get utilized in the production mechanism. Capital without the accompany of the labour cannot produce any goods and services in an economy.