General Knowledge Questions

Monetary policy is the process by which the monetary authority of a country, typically the central bank or currency board, controls either the cost of very short-term borrowing or the monetary base, often targeting an inflation rate or interest rate to ensure price stability and general trust in the currency.

The basic objective of monetary policy is to assist the economy in achieving a full-employment, noninflationary level of total output.

Cause-effect chain: Changes in the money supply affect interest rates, which affect investment spending and therefore aggregate demand.

Domestic policy is an area of public policy which concerns laws, government programs, and administrative decisions which are directly related to all issues and activity within a nation's borders.

It differs from foreign policy, which refers to the ways a government advances its interests in world politics.

Hence, Option A, The Supreme Court strikes down a law that bans importing inefficient automobiles is an example of domestic policy action.

The largest proportion of federal revenues comes from personal income taxes. Almost half of all federal revenue (47 percent) comes from individual income taxes.

Income taxes are allocated to extraordinary items, discontinued operations and prior period adjustments.

The India's commerce and industry ministry has started the exercise to revise base year to 2017-18 for computation of wholesale inflation with a view to present more realistic picture of the price situation

In May last year, the government revised the base year for WPI-based inflation to 2011-12 to give a better indication of changes in prices of commodities.

The new index, with 2017-18, is expected to have new items, which would provide a more realistic picture of price rise and its impact on people.

Most of the additions could be in the manufactured products category. Currently, the index has a total of 697 items, including primary articles, fuel and power and manufactured products.

Economic resources are those goods and services that can be converted into valuable products for individual and business purposes.

There are four major types of economic resources:

1. land,

2. labor,

3. capital and

4. entrepreneurship.

Land and labor are natural and human resources, while capital means physical resources or money.

Entrepreneurship converts these resources into usable goods.

However, resources have finite values, and proper utilization depends on economic systems and economic decisions.