Explain the role the government can play through the budget in influencing allocation of resources

Question 9. Explain the role the government can play through the budget in influencing allocation of resources
Class  Class 12
Chapter  Government Budget and the Economy
Subject Economics (Macroeconomics)
Category Sandeep garg Macroeconomics Class 12 Solutions

Sandeep Garg Macroeconomics Class 12 Solutions Circular flow of Income – Long Questions Q.9 Explain the role the government can play through the budget in influencing allocation of resources.

Solution:

Reallocation of Resources: – Government through its budgetary policy relocates resources to maintain the balance between its objectives of profit maximization and social welfare. To achieve profit maximization and encourage investment, government invites private players by providing tax holidays, subsidies etc. but sometime private players hesitate to take up projects requiring heavy investment and having long gestation periods such as sanitation, building of roads etc. In such a situation government takes up these projects for social welfare.

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Sandeep Garg Macroeconomics Solutions

Short Questions Solutions

  1. State three objectives of a government budget
  2. Explain objective of stability of prices of government budget
  3. How can a government budget help in reducing inequalities reducing inequalities of income? Explain.
  4. Explain the ‘allocation of resources’ objective of Government budget.
  5. What is a government budget? Name two sources each of non-tax revenue receipts and capital Receipts.
  6. What is a government budget? Give the meaning of: (a) Revenue deficit; (b) Fiscal deficit.
  7. What are the two broad divisions of receipts of the government budget? Name two sources of each kind of receipt.
  8. Define tax revenue. What are the two kinds of tax revenues? Give two examples of each.
  9. Distinguish between Direct Tax and Indirect Tax
  10. Explain with the help of suitable examples the basis of classifying taxes into direct and indirect taxes
  11. Distinguish between revenue receipts and capital receipts
  12. Give meanings of Capital receipts and Revenue receipts with an example of each.

Long Questions Solutions

  1. Define Government budget. Explain the various objectives of a government budget.
  2. What is meant by non-tax revenue? Explain the different sources of non-tax revenue
  3. What is meant by budget expenditure? Distinguish between revenue expenditure and capital expenditure.
  4. What is the meaning of revenue receipts? What are the two main sources of revenue receipts?
  5. Discuss the meaning of following deficits: (i) Revenue Deficit; (ii) Fiscal Deficit; and (iii) Primary Deficit.
  6. Distinguish between: (a) Direct Tax and Indirect tax (b) Primary deficit and Revenue deficit
  7. Distinguish between the following (a) Revenue receipts and Capital receipts (b) Revenue deficit and Fiscal deficit