Aid or official development assistance (ODA) includes ?

Related Mcqs:

1. U.S total official development assistance to developing countries is ?

   A. lowest among the OECD countries
   B. higher currently than it was in the 1960s and 1970s
   C. is equivalent to Holland’s aid
   D. None of the above statements is true

2. Which of the following statement is NOT true about OECD aid ?

   A. During the 1980s OECD countries contributed four fifths of the world’s bilateral official development assistance to LDCs
   B. In the early 1990s the OECD contributed 98 percent of all aid
   C. The OECD aid increased from $6.9 billion in 1970 to $8.9 billion in 2001
   D. In 2001, only Denmark Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg exceeded the aid target for LDCs

3. Bilateral aid ?

   A. is technical aid given by IMF
   B. is given directly by one country to another
   C. is aid with repayment in inconvertible currency
   D. is a loan at bankers’ standards

4. The U.S real food aid, as well as food reserves dropped from the 1960s to the 1980s partly because ?

   A. the transportation and storage cost increased tremendously
   B. proponents of basic-needs attainment opposed food-aid
   C. U.S farm interests wanted to reduce surplus grain stocks
   D. agricultural production suffered excessively due to weather changes

5. Government granted monetary assistance to a person or a group in support of an enterprise regarded as being in public interest. This is called subsidy. Point out the statement which is also a subsidy ?

   A. Financial assistance given by one person or government to another
   B. Financial assistance given to poor people
   C. Financial assistance given to aged people
   D. Financial assistance given to small companies

6. What is called the amount of non-military foreign aid which a country received ?

   A. Grands
   B. Official Development Assistance (ODA)
   C. Foreign aid
   D. Friendly aid

7. To aid its calculator producers, suppose that the government provides them a subsidy of $10 for each calculator produced The amount of imports now equals _____ and the deadweight loss of the subsidy to the Canadian economy equals _________?

   A. 20 calculator, $50
   B. 20 calculator, $100
   C. 25 calculator, $50
   D. 25 calculator, $100

8. Heavy Mechanical Complex Taxila was set up with the aid of ?

   A. China
   B. Japan
   C. USA
   D. UK

9. If the Bank of England reduces the money supply to reduce inflation a floating exchange rate will aid the Bank of England in fighting inflation because ?

   A. as the money supply is decreased the interest rate will increase and the price of UK exports will rise and the Price of UK imports will fall
   B. as the money supply is decreased the interest rate will increase, and the price of UK exports will fall and the price of UK imports will rise
   C. as the money supply is decreased the interest rate will increase and the price of UK exports and UK imports will fall.
   D. as the money supply is decreased the interest rate will increase and the price of both UK exports and UK imports will rise

10. Goals are achieved through ____ such a monetary fiscal, exchange rate tariff tax subsidy, business incentive foreign investment and foreign aid?

    A. indicative plan
    B. central bank policies
    C. central planning
    D. instrument variables