Economy This Week 6th to 12th Dec 2018 BL – Business Line; FE – Financial Express; TH – The Hindu; BS – Business Standard; LM - Livemint

External Benchmarking (TH 6/12/18)

BOT (Variable) BS 8/12/18

IT payers (BS 8/12/18)

Agri Credit (BL 10/12/18)

NPS (BS 11/12/18)

Question 1 Consider the following statements about NPS (National Pension Scheme) It was launched in 2009 It is managed by PFRDA On retiring it allowed the subscriber to withdraw 40% and remaining 60% would be converted into annuity Choose the correct option Only 2 is true 1 and 2 are true 2 and 3 are true 1, 2 and 3 are true

Question 2 When the Reserve Bank of India reduces the Statutory Liquidity by 50 basis points, which of the following is likely to happen? India’s GDP growth rate increases drastically Foreign Institutional Investors may bring more capital into our country Scheduled Commercial Banks may cut their lending rates It may drastically reduce the liquidity to the banking system.

Question 3 The terms ‘Marginal Standing Facility Rate’ and ‘Net Demand and Time Liabilities’, sometimes appearing in news, are used in relation to banking operations communication networking military strategies supply and demand of agricultural products

Question 4 With higher CAD, which of the following is likely to happen Depletion of forex reserves Reduction in trade deficit Choose the correct option Only 1 Only 2 Both Neither 1 nor 2