Class 12 Macro Economics - Chapter National Income Accounting NCERT Solutions | From the following data, calculate Perso

Write down some of the limitations of using GDP as an index of welfare of a country.

Why should the aggregate final expenditure of an economy be equal to the aggregate factor payments? Explain.

In a single day Raju, the barber, collects Rs 500 from haircuts; over this day, his equipment depreciates in value by Rs 50. Of the remaining Rs 450, Raju pays sales tax worth Rs 30, takes home Rs 200 and retains Rs 220 for improvement and buying of new equipment. He further pays Rs 20 as income tax from his income. Based on this information, complete Raju’s contribution to the following measures of income (a) Gross Domestic Product (b) NNP at market price (c) NNP at factor cost (d) Personal income (e) Personal disposable income.

Distinguish between stock and flow. Between net investment and capital which is a stock and which is a flow? Compare net investment and capital with flow of water into a tank.

Write down the three identities of calculating the GDP of a country by the three methods. Also briefly explain why each of these should give us the same value of GDP.

What is the difference between planned and unplanned inventory accumulation? Write down the relation between change in inventories and value added of a firm.

Define budget deficit and trade deficit. The excess of private investment over saving of a country in a particular year was Rs 2,000 crores. The amount of budget deficit was ( – ) Rs 1,500 crores. What was the volume of trade deficit of that country?

Suppose the GDP at market price of a country in a particular year was Rs 1,100 crores. Net Factor Income from Abroad was Rs 100 crores. The value of Indirect taxes – Subsidies was Rs 150 crores and National Income was Rs 850 crores. Calculate the aggregate value of depreciation.

The value of the nominal GNP of an economy was Rs 2,500 crores in a particular year. The value of GNP of that country during the same year, evaluated at the prices of same base year, was Rs 3,000 crores. Calculate the value of the GNP deflator of the year in percentage terms. Has the price level risen between the base year and the year under consideration?

Net National Product at Factor Cost of a particular country in a year is Rs 1,900 crores. There are no interest payments made by the households to the firms/government, or by the firms/government to the households. The Personal Disposable Income of the households is Rs 1,200 crores. The personal income taxes paid by them is Rs 600 crores and the value of retained earnings of the firms and government is valued at Rs 200 crores. What is the value of transfer payments made by the government and firms to the households?

What is marginal propensity to consume? How is it related to marginal propensity to save?

Explain why public goods must be provided by the government.

Differentiate between balance of trade and current account balance.

What is a barter system? What are its drawbacks?

What is the difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics?

What is the difference between ex ante investment and ex post investment?

Distinguish between revenue expenditure and capital expenditure.

What are official reserve transactions? Explain their importance in the balance of payments.

What are the main functions of money? How does money overcome the shortcomings of a barter system?

What are the important features of a capitalist economy?

Explain ‘Paradox of Thrift’.

Are the concepts of demand for domestic goods and domestic demand for goods the same?

Calculate the open economy multiplier with proportional taxes, T = tY, instead of lump-sum taxes as assumed in the text.

How is the exchange rate determined under a flexible exchange rate regime?

Explain the automatic mechanism by which BoP equilibrium was achieved under the gold standard.

Suppose C = 100 + 0.75Y D, I = 500, G = 750, taxes are 20 per cent of income, X = 150, M = 100 + 0.2Y . Calculate equilibrium income, the budget deficit or surplus and the trade deficit or surplus.

Explain why the tax multiplier is smaller in absolute value than the government expenditure multiplier.

What are the main functions of money? How does money overcome the shortcomings of a barter system?

Suppose marginal propensity to consume is 0.75 and there is a 20 per cent proportional income tax. Find the change in equilibrium income for the following (a) Government purchases increase by 20 (b) Transfers decrease by 20.

Discuss the issue of deficit reduction.