The External Debt & Financial Crises Mcqs

MCQ: Which of the following is Not true about external debt ?

  1. External debt accumulates with international balance on goods services and income deficcits
  2. When debts are denominated in U.S dollars their appreciation during the 1990s increased the cost of servicing such debts
  3. In the 19901s LDCs relied increasingly on aid from DCs
  4. International lenders required LDC governments to guarantee private debt

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The External Debt & Financial Crises Mcqs

MCQ: 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 assistance

  1. I and II only
  2. III and IV only
  3. I, II and III only
  4. I, II and IV only

C

MCQ: Which of the following country did not experience large capital flights from 1976 to 1984 ?

  1. Argentina
  2. Venezuela
  3. Mexico
  4. Canada

D

MCQ: Which of the following country did Not suffer from increased poverty from debt and financial crises in the 1990s ?

  1. Singapore (1994)
  2. Mexico (1994)
  3. Russia (1998)
  4. Brazil (1998)

A

MCQ: Net transfers are______________?

  1. investment loans, and grants from overseas minus international resource outflows
  2. net international resource flows minus net international interest payments and profit remittances
  3. international resource outflows minus international balance of payments and profit remittances
  4. foreign direct investment inflow minus investment loans and grants from overseas

B

MCQ: Which of the following factors potentially increased the vulnerability to the 1997 Asian financial and currency crisis ?

  1. trade account surplus
  2. massive reverse outflows of capital
  3. technological transfer from DCs
  4. Symmetric informational in financial market

B

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