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Questions Related to public finance, budget and fiscal policy

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given the lists.

List-I (Type of budget deficit) List-II (Measurement of deficit)
A. Revenue Deficit $1$. Gap between total expenditure and total receipts
B. Fiscal Deficit $2$. Excess of revenue expenditure over revenue receipts
C. Primary Deficit $3$. Fiscal deficit less interest payments
D. Budgetary Deficit $4$. Difference between revenue receipts plus certain non-debt capital receipts and the total expenditure including loans, net of repayments
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  1. A-$1$, B-$2$, C-$3$, D-$4$

  2. A-$2$, B-$4$, C-$3$, D-$1$

  3. A-$2$, B-$3$, C-$4$, D-$1$

  4. A-$1$, B-$4$, C-$3$, D-$2$

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Revenue Deficit: It occurs when the actual amount of revenue expenditure and actual amount of received revenue do not match.
Fiscal Deficit: Fiscal deficit is an economic phenomenon, calculated as the budget deficit, plus the borrowings of the government.
Primary Deficit: Primary deficit is obtained by subtracting interest payments from fiscal deficit of any country of a particular year. It is the deficit in the fiscal budget, unaccounted for any borrowing related interest payments.
Budgetary Deficit: A budgetary deficit is a common economic phenomenon, which occurs when the spending of a government exceeds the government revenue. 

Fiscal deficit as a percent of GDP in 2010-11 was _______.

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  1. 5.6%

  2. 2.7%

  3. 4.8%

  4. 4.1%

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Correct Option: C

If borrowings and other liabilities are added to the budget deficit it is termed as __________.

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  1. fiscal deficit

  2. primary deficit

  3. capital deficit

  4. revenue deficit

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Correct Option: A