Hawala transactions relate to payments:
Hawala transactions relate to payments:
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Consider the following statements: Most international agencies which fund Development Programme in India on intergovernmental bilateral agreements, mainly provide:
1. Technical assistance
2. Soft loans which are required to be paid back with interest
3. Grants, not required to be paid back
4. Food assistance to be paid back
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Consider the following items imported by India:
1. Capital goods
2. Petroleum
3. Pearls and precious stones
4. Chemicals
5. Iron and Steel
The correct sequence of the decreasing order of these items(as per 94-95 figures), in terms of value is:
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A redistribution of income in a country can be best brought about through:
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Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion(A) and the other labelled as Reason(R).
Assertion(A): An important policy instrument of economic lib-eralization is reduction in import duties on capital goods.
Reason(R): Reduction in import duties would help the local entrepreneurs to improve technology to face the global markets.
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Local supply of coal is not available to:
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In India, rural incomes are generally lower than urban incomes. Which of the following reasons account for this?
1. A large number of farmers are illiterate and know little about scientific agriculture.
2. Prices of primary products are lower than that of manufactured products.
3. Investment in agriculture has been low when compared to investment in industry.
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One of the important goals of the economic liberalisation policy is to achieve full convertibility of the Indian rupee. This is being advocated because:
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Which one of the following is correct regarding stabilization and structural adjustment as two components of the new economic policy adopted in India?
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The Eighth Five Year Plan is different from the earliest ones. The critical difference lies in the fact that:
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Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion(A) and the other labelled as Reason(R):
Assertion(A): Though India’s national income has gone up several fold since 1947, there has been no marked improvement in the per capita income level.
Reason(R): Sizeable proportion of the population of India is still living below the poverty line.
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