world organisations section 3 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

UNESCO mobilises for education so that every child, boy or girl, has access to quality education as a fundamental human right and as a prerequisite for human development. UNESCO has created the idea of World Heritage to protect sites of outstanding universal value.

Answer: (d)

The International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO), widely known as INTERPOL, is an intergovernmental organization facilitating international police cooperation.

It was established as the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) in 1923 and adopted its telegraphic address as its common name in 1956.

Its headquarters is located in 200, Quai Charles de Gaulle, Lyon which is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille.

Answer: (d)

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs. It is one of four institutions created at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944.

Both the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are headquartered in Washington D.C.

Answer: (d)

World Trade Organisation came into being on January 1, 1995 when the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) formally transformed itself into this organisation. Its headquarters is in Geneva.

Answer: (c)

Human Development Index (HDI) is published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the global development network of the United Nations.

HDI is a statistical tool used to measure a country’s overall achievement in terms of health of people, their level of education attainment and their standard of living.

Answer: (b)

The International Monetary Fund is headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. It is an international organization that was created on July 22, 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference and came into existence on December 27, 1945 when 29 countries signed the Articles of Agreement.