Bilateral aid ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. Aid or official development assistance (ODA) includes ?

   I- developments grants
   II- loans with at least 25 percent grant element
   III- military assistance
   IV- technical cooperation

   A. I and II only
   B. I, II and III only
   C. I, II and IV only
   D. I, II, III and IV only

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

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

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Japan’s programs ?

   I- are understaffed politically muddled and administratively complex
   II- are biased toward Asia
   III- go primarily to less developed countries in Africa
   IV- focus on loans and the grant element of aid is low

   A. I, II and III
   B. I, II and IV
   C. II, III and IV
   D. I, II, III and IV

10. The IMF is an agency charged with providing ?

    A. technical assistance to stock market and financial market problems
    B. loans for post-World War II reconstruction
    C. short-term credit for international balance of payments deficits
    D. bonds denominated in U.S dollars as a loan to LDCs