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Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

For many years, the World Bank Group has provided crucial support to those developing countries that have sought to reap the benefits of financial development while also minimizing risks to financial stability. This work is becoming even more critical as the world seeks to avoid the devastating effects of future financial crises while utilizing the opportunities of modern financial services to meet the rising aspirations of the poor. This is possible only through efficient financial systems with stakeholders whose incentives are aligned with those of society as a whole. Crowding-in the private sector is crucial not only as an engine of growth in developing countries, but also as a foundation for the kind of market discipline that can prevent excessive risk-taking and put capital in the hands of the entrepreneurs who can invest in the future. The right regulatory and supervisory environment—accompanied by effective financial sector policies—is key to creating a financial system that can attract private capital and align private incentives with the public good.

Q. With reference to the above passage, which of the following statements are correct?

Select the correct answer using the code given below:


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1 and 2 only
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2 and 3 only
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1 and 3 only
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1, 2, and 3
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Solution

The correct option is C
1 and 3 only

Explanation:

Statement 1 is correct: Refer the following line, “This work is becoming even more critical as the world seeks to avoid the devastating effects of future financial crises while utilizing the opportunities of modern financial services to meet the rising aspirations of the poor. This is possible only through efficient financial systems with stakeholders whose incentives are aligned with those of society as a whole.”

The statement is explained in those lines. Hence it is correct.

Statement 2 is incorrect: Refer to these lines, “This work is becoming even more critical as the world seeks to avoid the devastating effects of future financial crises while utilizing the opportunities of modern financial services to meet the rising aspirations of the poor.”

It is mentioned that the world is cautious about avoiding a financial crisis like before, but there is nothing mentioned about developing countries staying away from availing financial help. Hence the statement is incorrect.

Statement 3 is correct: Refer to these lines, “Crowding-in the private sector is crucial not only as an engine of growth in developing countries, but also as a foundation for the kind of market discipline that can prevent excessive risk-taking and put capital in the hands of the entrepreneurs who can invest in the future. The right regulatory and supervisory environment—accompanied by effective financial sector policies—is key to creating a financial system that can attract private capital and align private incentives with the public good.”

From here it is evident that a right policy and proper regulatory body can help the developing countries benefit from the private investments.


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Q. Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

For many years, the World Bank Group has provided crucial support to those developing countries that have sought to reap the benefits of financial development while also minimizing risks to financial stability. This work is becoming even more critical as the world seeks to avoid the devastating effects of future financial crises while utilizing the opportunities of modern financial services to meet the rising aspirations of the poor. This is possible only through efficient financial systems with stakeholders whose incentives are aligned with those of society as a whole. Crowding-in the private sector is crucial not only as an engine of growth in developing countries, but also as a foundation for the kind of market discipline that can prevent excessive risk-taking and put capital in the hands of the entrepreneurs who can invest in the future. The right regulatory and supervisory environment—accompanied by effective financial sector policies—is key to creating a financial system that can attract private capital and align private incentives with the public good.

Q. With reference to the above passage, which of the following statements are correct?

1. Aligning the incentives of the stakeholder with those of the society will help in meeting the rising aspirations of the poor.
2. The devastating effects of the financial crisis have held back developing countries from availing financial help.
3. Proper policies accompanied by a regulatory body can help the developing countries benefit from the investments of private investments.


निम्नलिखित गद्यांश को पढ़ें और इस प्रश्न का उत्तर दें।

कई वर्षों से, विश्व बैंक समूह ने उन विकासशील देशों को महत्वपूर्ण सहायता प्रदान की है जिन्होंने वित्तीय स्थिरता के जोखिमों को कम करते हुए वित्तीय विकास के लाभों को प्राप्त करने का प्रयास किया है। यह कार्य और भी महत्वपूर्ण होता जा रहा है क्योंकि दुनिया गरीबों की बढ़ती आकांक्षाओं को पूरा करने के लिए आधुनिक वित्तीय सेवाओं के अवसरों का उपयोग करते हुए भविष्य के वित्तीय संकटों के विनाशकारी प्रभावों से बचने का प्रयास कर रही है। यह केवल हितधारकों के साथ कुशल वित्तीय प्रणालियों के माध्यम से संभव है, जिनके प्रोत्साहन को समग्र रूप से समाज के लोगों के साथ जोड़ा जाता है। निजी क्षेत्र में क्राउडिंग-इन न केवल विकासशील देशों में विकास के एक इंजन के रूप में महत्वपूर्ण है, बल्कि इस तरह के बाजार अनुशासन की नींव के रूप में है जो अत्यधिक जोखिम लेने से रोक सकते हैं और उद्यमियों के हाथों में पूंजी दे सकते हैं जो आने वाले समय में निवेश कर सकते हैं। प्रभावी वित्तीय क्षेत्र की नीतियों के साथ-साथ सही नियामक और पर्यवेक्षी वातावरण एक वित्तीय प्रणाली बनाने के लिए महत्वपूर्ण कुंजी है जो निजी पूंजी को आकर्षित कर सकता है और निजी प्रोत्साहन को लोगों की भलाई से जोड़ सकता है।

Q. उपरोक्त गद्यांश के संदर्भ में, निम्नलिखित में से कौन सा कथन सही है?
1. हितधारक के प्रोत्साहन को समाज के उन लोगों के साथ जोड़ने से गरीबों की बढ़ती आकांक्षाओं को पूरा करने में मदद मिलेगी।
2. वित्तीय संकट के विनाशकारी प्रभावों ने विकासशील देशों को वित्तीय सहायता प्राप्त करने में पीछे कर दिया है।
3. एक नियामक संस्था के साथ उचित नीतियों से विकासशील देशों को निजी निवेश के लाभ मिल सकते हैं।


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Infrastructure can deliver major benefits in economic growth, poverty alleviation, and environmental sustainability but only when it provides services that respond to effective demand and does so efficiently. Service is the goal and the measure of development in infrastructure. Major investments have been made in infrastructure stocks, but in too many developing countries these assets are not generating the quantity or the quality of services as demanded. The costs of this waste-in foregone economic growth and lost opportunities for poverty reduction and environmental improvement-are high and unacceptable. The causes of the past poor performance, and the source of improved performance, lie in the incentives facing providers. To ensure efficient, responsive delivery of infrastructure services, incentives need to be changed through the application of three instruments-commercial management, competition and stakeholder involvement. The roles of government and the private sector must be transformed as well. Technological innovations and experiments with alternative ways of providing infrastructure indicate the following principles for reform: manage infrastructure like business, not a bureaucracy. The provision of infrastructure needs to be conceived and run as a service industry that responds to customer demand. Poor performers typically have a confusion of objectives, little financial autonomy or financial discipline, and no ‘bottom line’ measured by the customer satisfaction. The high willingness to pay for most infrastructure services, even by the poor, provides greater opportunity for user charges. Private sector involvement in management, financing or ownership will, in most cases, be needed to ensure a commercial orientation in infrastructure. Introduce competition-directly if feasible, indirectly if not. Competition gives consumers choices for better meeting their demands and puts pressure on suppliers to be efficient and accountable to users. Competition can be introduced directly, by liberalizing entry into activities that have no technological barriers, and indirectly, through competitive bidding for the right to provide exclusive service where natural monopoly conditions exist and by liberalizing the supply of service substitutes. Give users and other stakeholders a strong voice and real responsibility where infrastructure activities involve important external effects, for good or bad or where market discipline is insufficient to ensure accountability to users and other affected groups; governments need to address their concerns through other means. Users and other stakeholders should be represented in the planning and regulation of infrastructure service. In some cases, they should take major initiatives in design, operation and financing. Public-private partnerships in financing have promise. Private sector involvement in the financing of new capacity is growing. The lessons of this experience are that the governments should start with simpler projects and gain experience, investors returns should be linked to project performance, and any government guarantees if needed should be carefully scrutinized. Governments will have a continuing, if changed, role in infrastructure. In addition to taking steps to improve the performance of infrastructure provision under their direct control, governments are responsible for creating policy and regulatory frameworks that safeguard the interests of the poor, improve environmental conditions, and coordinate cross-sectoral interactions-whether services are produced by public or private providers. The government is also responsible for developing legal and regulatory framework to support private involvement in the provision of infrastructure services
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