The World Trade Organization has all of the following functions except which one?
A. Establishing rules for the conduct of international trade
B. Providing short-term capital to finance trade for low-income countries
C. Providing a forum negotiating reduction in trade barriers
D. Settling trade disputes between member countries
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Which of the following is the basic objective of the World Bank?
A. To provide social services
B. To provide financial assistance
C. To promote economic growth
D. To eradicate poverty
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An MNC that maintains a balance between the home market and host market-oriented policies is
A. ethnocentric firm
B. polycentric firm
C. geocentric firm
D. none of the above
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A Central Consumer Protection Council established by the
A. State Government
B. Central Government
C. Parliament
D. President of lndia
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Which of the following can be defined as the component/s of Liquidity Adjustment Facility?
A. Repo rate
B. Reverse repo rate
C. Both repo and reverse repo rate
D. Bank rate
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World Trade Organization is located in Geneva, Switzerland and it has 164 members. WTO was created on 1st January 1995 by:
A. Tokyo Round negotiations
B. Uruguay Round negotiations
C. Washington consensus
D. Doha round negotiations
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Match the following legislations with the year of their enactment:
List-I
List-II
a. Industries (Development and Regulation) Act
1. 1969
b. Foreign Exchange Management Act
2. 1951
c. Securities Exchange Board Of India Act
3. 1999
d. Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act
4. 1992
A. a-1, b-3, c-4, d-2
B. a-1, b-4, c-3, d-2
C. a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1
D. a-2, b-3, c-1, d-4
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Globalisation of financial services is being promoted by
A. World Trade Organisation
B. International Finance Corporation
C. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
D. International Monetary Fund
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Assertion (A): Free international trade necessarily lowers the real wage of the scarce factor of production in terms of any good.
Reason (R): If the real wage declines in terms of every good, real income must suffer regardless of the tastes and expenditure patterns of the labourer as consumers.
A. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
B. Both A and Rare true but R is NOT a correct explanation of A
C. A is true but R is false
D. A is false but R is true
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Match the following.
List-I
List-II
a. FOB basis
1. Means of international payment
b. Official reserves
2. Price paid for insurance and shipment of goods should not be included as part of value of goods either by exporter or importer
c. Balance of payment manual
3. Principles or concepts to be followed by countries while compiling BoP data to ensure consistency
d. Bill of lading
4. Document of title of sale of goods
A. a-2, b-1, c-3, d-4
B. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4
C. a-3, b-2, c-1, d-4
D. a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1
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The quotas of all the member countries with the IMF are valued in terms of
A. SDR
B. GDR
C. Dollar
D. Swaps
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Which of the following statements are true in context of Consumer Protection Act, 2019
A. The Act proposes the establishment of the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) to promote, protect and enforce the rights of consumers
B. The Act seeks to be more holistic with stricter rules, including jail term for unfair trade practices like adulteration and misleading ads by firms. The Act is determined to initiate class action, including enforcing recall, refund and return of products
C. The consumers can now file complaints at any district or state Consumer Commission closest to them instead of travelling to the location where the service were sold
D. All of the above
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Match the following.
List-I
List-II
a. Foreign trade
1. It is in undertaking by its issue that the bills of exchange drawn by the foreign dealer on the importer will be honoured on presentation upon a specified amount
b. Bill of lading
2. It is a document of title to the goods
c. Quotation
3. Trade between two or more nations
d. Letter of credit
4. It is reply by the seller to the prospective buyer
A. a-4, b-1, c-2, d-3
B. a-3, b-2, c-4, d-1
C. a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1
D. a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1
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The main objective of the WTO is:
A. to raise living standards in developing countries
B. to minimise barriers to international trade
C. to harmonize tariffs
D. to eliminate customs unions
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India suffered from deficit balance both in trade balance and net invisibles, hence, took up a number of steps to manage this problem. Which one is not appropriate for this?
A. Export control
B. Current Account Convertibility
C. Liberalized Export Policy
D. Unified Exchange Rate
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The current account is made up of visibles and . . . . . . . .
A. invisible
B. constraint
C. expert
D. None of these
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What does CRS concern with?
A. How an organisation meet the expectations of its stakeholders
B. External stakeholders relationship
C. The behaviour of individual managers
D. The ways in which an organisation exceeds its minimum required obligations to stakeholders
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India has the power to appoint a permanent executive director in the . . . . . . . . on the Board of Directors.
A. IMF
B. IBRD
C. ADB
D. None of these
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Call money rate is applicable for a very short period to
A. inter bank advances
B. bank to Reserve Bank advances
C. reserve Bank to Bank advances
D. commercial Banks to Industrial Banks advances
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In international trade which of the following is a non-tariff trade barrier?
A. quotas
B. import bans
C. export controls
D. anti-dumping laws
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