JAMB Economics syllabus

The JAMB Economics syllabus has 91 examinable topics, listed alphabetically in full below. This is the same breakdown Handbook uses to track which topics you have mastered and which are still costing you marks.

All 91 topics on the JAMB Economics syllabus

1. 01Agricultural Policies and Effects
2. 02Agriculture in Nigeria
3. 03Application of PPF
4. 04Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments
5. 05Basic Concepts
6. 06Basic Tools
7. 07Business Organizations
8. 08Census: Importance and Problems
9. 09Challenges and Environmental Effects
10. 10Change in Quantity Demanded vs Change in Demand
11. 11Change in Quantity Supplied vs Change in Supply
12. 12Composition and Direction of Nigeria’s Foreign Trade
13. 13Concept of Market and Price
14. 14Concepts and Effects of Location and Localization
15. 15Concepts: TP, AP, MP and Law of Variable Proportions
16. 16Consumer Equilibrium
17. 17Consumer Surplus and Applications
18. 18Consumption, Investment, Savings
19. 19Contemporary Issues
20. 20Contributions of Oil and Non-oil Sectors
21. 21Cost Concepts
22. 22Deflation
23. 23Demand for and Supply of Money
24. 24Deposit Money Banks and Money Creation
25. 25Determination of Wages, Interest and Profits
26. 26Development of Major Natural Resources
27. 27Development Planning in Nigeria
28. 28Diminishing Marginal Utility and Law of Demand
29. 29Division of Labour and Specialization
30. 30Economic Growth and Development
31. 31Economic Problems
32. 32Economic Systems
33. 33Economics as a Science
34. 34Effects of Changes in Supply and Demand on Equilibrium
35. 35Effects of Public Expenditure
36. 36Effects of Shifts in Budget Line and Indifference Curve
37. 37Elasticity of Demand
38. 38Elasticity of Supply
39. 39Elementary Theory of Income Determination
40. 40Equilibrium Price and Quantity
41. 41Exchange Rate
42. 42Factor Mobility and Efficiency
43. 43Factors Determining Size of Firms
44. 44Factors of Production and their Theories
45. 45Financial Institutions
46. 46Financial Sector Regulations
47. 47Fiscal Policy and Instruments
48. 48Functions of the Price System
49. 49Government Budget and Public Debts
50. 50Imperfect Markets
51. 51Importance of Elasticity
52. 52Indicators of Growth and Development
53. 53Industry and Industrialization
54. 54Inflation
55. 55International Economic Organizations
56. 56International Trade
57. 57Market Structure
58. 58Meaning and Basis
59. 59Meaning and Scope
60. 60Monetary Policy and Instruments
61. 61Money and Capital Markets
62. 62Money and Inflation
63. 63Multiplier and Effects
64. 64National Income
65. 65Perfectly Competitive Market
66. 66Population
67. 67Price Legislation and Effects
68. 68Principles of Taxation
69. 69Privatization and Commercialization
70. 70Problems of Agriculture
71. 71Problems of Development in Nigeria
72. 72Public Enterprises and Problems
73. 73Public Finance
74. 74Revenue Allocation and Resource Control in Nigeria
75. 75Revenue Concepts
76. 76Role in Economic Development
77. 77Role of NNPC and OPEC
78. 78Scale of Production
79. 79Size and Growth: Over, Under, Optimum Population
80. 80Strategies of Industrialization in Nigeria
81. 81Tax Incidence and Effects
82. 82The Theory of Demand
83. 83The Theory of Production
84. 84The Theory of Supply
85. 85Types of Demand
86. 86Types, Characteristics and Functions of Money
87. 87Types, Features and Rewards
88. 88Unemployment and Solutions in Nigeria
89. 89Upstream/Downstream of Oil Sector
90. 90Utility Concepts
91. 91Value of Money and Price Level