Economics General Knowledge Quiz Questions

A committee was set up in 1993 under the chairmanship of R.N. Malhotra, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, to make recommendations for reforms in the insurance sector.

The Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2022 proposes to reduce the timeline for the CCI to pass an order on transactions from 210 days to 150 days. It seeks to amend the Competition Act, 2002. The Act prohibits any person or enterprise from entering into a combination which may cause adverse effect on competition.

There are 23 stock exchanges in India. Among them, two are national-level stock exchanges namely Bombay Stock exchange (BSE) and National Stock Exchange (NSE). The rest 21 are Regional Stock Exchanges (RSEs).

Child insurance plan is an investment cum insurance plan from life insurance companies, which offers financial safety to your child's dreams and goals. You can use a child insurance plan to invest in the big life goals of your child like higher education and marriage.

mportant Points Statement (A) is correct: Population density is the number of people living in a unit area of the earth’s surface. How crowded a country is, has little to do with its level of economic development. For example, both Bangladesh and Japan are very densely populated but Japan is far more economically developed than Bangladesh. Hence, an economically developed country could be a densely populated country. Statement (B) is not correct: The number of women and men in a country is an important demographic characteristic. The ratio between the number of women and men in the population is called the Sex Ratio. The sex ratio is an important information about the status of women in a country. In regions where gender discrimination is rampant, the sex ratio is bound to be unfavourable to women. Such areas are those where the practice of female foeticide, female infanticide and domestic violence against women are prevalent. One of the reasons could be lower socio-economic status of women in these areas. However more women in the population's base does not mean they have a better status. It could be that the men might have migrated to other areas for employment. Statement (C) is correct: Population composition refers to the structure of the population. The composition of population helps us to know how many are males or females, which age group they belong to, how educated they are and what type of occupations they are employed in, what their income levels and health conditions are. An important tool for studying the population composition of a country is by looking at the population pyramid.

The stock market in India is regulated by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). It was established under the SEBI Act, 1992.

Global Peace Index (GPI) is a report produced by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) which measures the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness.[2] The GPI ranks 163 independent states and territories (collectively accounting for 99.7 per cent of the world's population) according to their levels of peacefulness. In the past decade, the GPI has presented trends of increased global violence and less peacefulness.[3]

with Malaysia, Singapore and the United States being the largest sources of remittance. Research work on remittances to India is listed in the India Migration Bibliography.

Following the recommendations of the Malhotra Committee report, in 1999, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) was constituted as an autonomous body to regulate and develop the insurance industry.