Which of the following organizations primarily provides long-term loans to developing countries to help them develop their infrastructure such as schools hospitals and roads ?

Related Mcqs:

1. To help developing nations strengthen their international competitiveness many industrial nations have granted non-reciprocal tariff reductions to developing nations under the ?

   A. international commodity agreements program
   B. multilateral contract program
   C. generalized system of preferences program
   D. export-led growth program

2. Bank loans are usually altered to have longer maturities in order to assist the borrower in making the necessary repayments. What these loans are called____________?

   A. Rearranged loans
   B. Rescheduled loans
   C. Altered loans
   D. None of these

3. Tariff levels in advanced countries tend to be __________ tariff levels in developing countries?

   A. higher than
   B. equal to
   C. lower than
   D. there is no general pattern

4. A widely used indicator to differentiate developed countries from developing countries is ?

   A. international trade per capita
   B. real income per capital
   C. unemployment per capita
   D. calories per capita

5. In the Px = export price index, Pm = import price index, Qx = export quantity index,and Qm = import quantity index. Developing countries tend to maintain that their commodity term of trade have declined over the long run suggesting that _________ has declined?

   A. Px/Pm
   B. Pm/Px
   C. (Pm/Px)Qm
   D. (Px/Pm)Qx

6. Developing countries, if compared with other countries, have ?

   A. a lower rate of illiteracy
   B. a greater degree of equality in the income distribution
   C. a lower infant mortality rate
   D. a smaller percentage of the labor force in urban areas

7. What is the ratio of population density of developing countries to the population of developed countries ?

   A. 10
   B. 2
   C. no more than 1
   D. 20

8. Investment funds are established for the supports of institutions such as hospitals investment is called ?

   A. Charity funds
   B. Attached funds
   C. Endowment funds
   D. Investment fund

9. If two countries A and B are member of a currency union and there is a shift in consumer preferences away from the goods of country A and towards those of country B than which one of the following would help to offset the effect of the resulting changes in aggregate demand in A and B on inflation and unemployment in the tow countries ?

   A. A high degree of labour mobility between the tow countries
   B. An increase in government spending in country (A)
   C. A depreciation in the foreign exchange value of the common currency
   D. A low degree of capital mobility between the two countries

10. All of the following are trade problems of developing countries except?

    A. unstable export markets
    B. improving terms of trade
    C. limited access to the markets of industrial countries
    D. highly elastic demand curves for their products