world organisations section 4 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

The official emblem of the United Nations in white, centered on a light blue ground. The current United Nations emblem was approved on 7 December 1946.

The design is “a map of the world representing an azimuthal equidistant projection centred on the North Pole, inscribed in a wreath consisting of crossed conventionalized branches of the olive tree, in gold on a field of smoke-blue with all water areas in white.

Answer: (c)

Jim Yong Kim, a Korean-American physician and anthropologist, has been the 12th President of the World Bank since July 1 2012. He was President of Dartmouth College from 2009 to 2012.

Answer: (d)

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. The organization officially commenced on January 1, 1995, under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which commenced in 1948.

The organization deals with the regulation of trade between participating countries; it provides a framework for negotiating and formalizing trade agreements, and a dispute resolution process aimed at enforcing participants’ adherence to WTO agreements which are signed by representatives of member governments and ratified by their parliaments.

Answer: (b)

The World Bank, Chennai is the sole back office of the World Bank headquartered in Washington, DC. The Chennai office offers corporate financial, accounting, administrative and IT services for the Bank’s offices in around 150 countries.

The Chennai office handles several value-added operations of the bank that were earlier handled only in its Washington, DC office. When the bank commenced its Chennai operations, it was primarily restricted to processing. An analysis component was added later.

Answer: (d)

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is a human rights treaty setting out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. It does not enumerate employment as a right. It deals more with exploitation issues and how they could be prevented.

Answer: (b)

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) is a survey conducted and published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It is published biannually and partly updated two times a year.

It portrays the world economy in the near and medium context, with projections for up to four years into the future.