A. long-term debt divided by GDP of a country in a given year
B. interest and principle payments divided by exports of goods and services
C. ratio of debt net of portfolio investment financing and foreign direct investment
D. default and reschedule debt minus annual export revenues that must be devoted to paying interest
Related Mcqs:
- What is National debt or public debt ?
A. State’s borrowing from its population
B. State’s borrowing from foreign government
C. state’s borrowing from international institution
D. All of these - What is Debt Service ?
A. Interest payments on external debts
B. repayments of external debt
C. none of these
D. Both of them - Successful service companies focus their attention on both their customers and their employees they understand ________ which links service firm profits with employee and customer satisfaction ?
A. internal marketing
B. service-profit chains
C. interactive marketing
D. service differentiation - A country’s total external debt (EDT) includes ?
I. short term debt with a maturity of one year or less
II. long-term debt with a maturity of more than one year
III. repurchase obligations to the IMF
IV. IV public official development assistanceA. I and II only
B. III and IV only
C. I, II and III only
D. I, II and IV only - Which of the following country did Not suffer from increased poverty from debt and financial crises in the 1990s ?
A. Singapore (1994)
B. Mexico (1994)
C. Russia (1998)
D. Brazil (1998) - The policy cartel on debt reduction refers to the_______________?
A. screening of debtors based on their regional location
B. World Bank requiring LDCs seconded by a DC to get loan reduction
C. loan denial to crisis-stricken highly indebted countries
D. None of the above - In 1990, during the Persian Gulf War, the U.S government extended generous terms to two middle-income countries by canceling or reducing their debt The two countries were ?
A. Iraq and Iran
B. Egypt and Poland
C. Pakistan and Afghanistan
D. Saudi Arabia and Jordan - Which of the following is Not true about external debt ?
A. External debt accumulates with international balance on goods services and income deficcits
B. When debts are denominated in U.S dollars their appreciation during the 1990s increased the cost of servicing such debts
C. In the 19901s LDCs relied increasingly on aid from DCs
D. International lenders required LDC governments to guarantee private debt - If a country has a burden of debt it cannot sustain it can ?
A. reschedule debt
B. get a loan from an international organization
C. default on the loan
D. any of the above - Most of the Third World/Fourth World debt was incurred in ?
A. The colonial period
B. The early 1950s
C. most debt was incurred during the oil shocks of the 1970s
D. the early 1960s
