Question

The package of conditions linked to loans to developing countries to promote market-oriented economic reform is called ...

1. Structural adjustment

2. Throughput

3. Dematerialization

4. Entropy

5. Technological lock-in

6. Which one of the following is not a negative environmental effect of structural adjustment?

1) Increased consumption of resources

2) Greater pollution pressures

3) Reduced subsidies lead to increased rates of pesticide use

4) Reduction in natural capital stocks

5) Weakening of environmental institutional capacity

7. Which one of the following statements best describes the World Bank’s environmental

record?

1) The World Bank has always taken leadership in protecting the environment

2) The World Bank considers that the environment is not relevant to its development mission

3) The World Bank has ignored critics of its environmental polices

4) The World Bank has responded to criticism by expanding its environmental lending

5) The World Bank has recently been renamed as the World Trade Organization to more accurately reflect its mission

8. Which one of the following statements is false?

1) The World Bank currently screens all projects for potential environmental impacts

2) World Bank loans are often coupled with grants from other organizations

3) World Bank funding for environmental projects has steadily increased since 1994

4) World Bank projects include both a “brown” and a “green” agenda

5) World Bank loans must eventually be repaid

Answer 1

Ques 1 The package of conditions linked to loans to developing countries to promote market-oriented economic reform is called ...

Structural adjustment

Ques 6 Part 4 Reduction in natural capital stocks

Others are negative environmental effect of structural adjustment

Ques 7 The World Bank has responded to criticism by expanding its environmental lending.

This statements best describes the World Bank’s environmental

record.

Ques 8 3) World Bank funding for environmental projects has steadily increased since 1994.

Rest all are true.