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Microsoft is a _________.

  1. Indian government company

  2. multinational company

  3. statutory corporation

  4. public limited company


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

A multinational corporation is an organisation which has its main headquarter in home country and operates with its subsidiaries in two or more countries. Microsoft has its main headquarters in Washington but has its subsidiaries all over the world.

Coca- Cola is an example of _________.

  1. MNC

  2. Indian Company

  3. Foreign Company

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A multinational corporation is an organisation which has its main headquarter in home country and operates with its subsidiaries in two or more countries. Coca-Cola has its main branch in Georgia but has many subsidiaries spread all over the world.

In India, Overall Economic Planning in the form of targets is laid down by the _____________.

  1. government of india

  2. planning authority of India

  3. planning commission

  4. state governments.


Correct Option: C

When a country enters into international trade, what record is maintained on the basis of double entry book-keeping?

  1. Balance of Payment

  2. Balance Sheet

  3. International Trade

  4. Profit and Loss Account


Correct Option: A

Choose the correct statement about factors regarding globalization in India :
I. Improvement in transportation technology.
II. Liberalization of foreign trade and foreign investment.
III. Favourable rules of WTO towards India in comparison to developed countries.
Choose the correct options from the codes given below:

  1. Only I and II

  2. Only I and III

  3. Only II and III

  4. Only III


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Option II and III are correct; option C is the correct answer.

Reason:- Improvement in the transport sector facilitates globalization, it is not an outcome of globalization. 

Whereas Liberalization of foreign trade and Favorable rules under the developing countries category helped India to improve trade in the world. 

Globalisation means -

  1. Integrating the domestic economy with the world economy

  2. A process which draws countries out of their isolation and makes them join rest of the world in its march towards a new world economic order

  3. Integrating the world into one global village

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D

Globalization has mostly affected ________.

  1. Developed countries

  2. MNC's

  3. Large producers

  4. Small producers


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

For a large number of small producers and workers globalisation has posed major challenges. MNC's sell their products at cheaper prices in other countries which affects Indian producers because people would prefer buying the same thing at a cheaper price which is sold by MNC's.

Ford motors came to India in the year  _____.

  1. 1994

  2. 1995

  3. 1996

  4. 1997


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 Ford Motors came to India in 1995 and spent Rs. 1700 crore to set up a large plant near Chennai. 

In the last decade, which one among the following sectors has attracted highest foreign direct investment inflows into India?

  1. Chemicals (excluding fertilizers)

  2. Services

  3. Food processing

  4. Telecommunication


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

India is currently the world’s second-largest telecommunications market and has registered strong growth in the past decade and half. The Indian mobile economy is growing rapidly and is expected to contribute substantially to India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Looking at the past, we find that MNCs have been a major force in the process of Globalization since last ____________.

  1. forty years

  2. thirty years

  3. fifty years

  4. sixty years


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

If we look at the past thirty years or so, we find that MNC's have been a major force in the globalisation process connecting distant regions of the world.