Economics Government Budget and the Economy MCQ Question Answers for CUET 2026 

1. An economy in which there is both the private sector and the Government is known as a
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d.

2. Non-plan capital expenditure covers which of the following Service?
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d.

3. Examples of such goods are national defence, roads, government administration etc. which are referred to as
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d.

4. The amount collected by the government as taxes and duties is known as _______
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5. Which of the following is a correct measure of primary deficit?
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6. Capital budget consists of:
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7. How many types of revenue receipts are there?
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8. What refers to the excess of government’s revenue expenditure over revenue receipts?
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9. Budgetary deficits must be financed by
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10. The intervention of the government whether to expand demand or reduce it constitutes the
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11. Which of the following is the capital expenditure?
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b.
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d.

12. Borrowing in the government budget is referred as:
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d.

13. What is the annual statement of the government’s fiscal revenue and fiscal expenditure known as?
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d.

14. When government spends more than it collects by way of revenue, it incurs __
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b.
c.
d.

15. Which is a component of Budget?
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16. _________= Net borrowing at home + Borrowing from RBI + Borrowing from abroad
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d.

17. Full form of SLR
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18. Which expenditure is committed and can’t be reduced?
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d.

19. Government deficit can be reduced by an increase in ______or reduction in _________.
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c.
d.

20. __________consist of interest payments minus interest receipts by the government on net domestic lending
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