RBI Grade B (DR) General / DEPR · India · Reserve Bank of India
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersRBI Grade B (DR) General / DEPR is a government recruitment exam run by Reserve Bank of India, for candidates in India. Reported: Phase II of 300 marks covering Economic & Social Issues, English (writing), and Finance & Management.
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What development means, how it is measured, the classic growth models, and the roles of state, market, civil society and international institutions.
Our 31 RBI Grade B General / DEPR questions in this subject: 14 easy, 17 medium, 0 hard, across 8 units.
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
These 10 were written to RBI Grade B General / DEPR and are not shown on any other exam's page.
How many Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by the United Nations in 2015, and which goal includes doubling the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers?
A. 17 goals; Goal 2 (zero hunger)
There are 17 SDGs with 169 targets; the smallholder productivity target sits under SDG 2, zero hunger. Eight was the number of Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015), and 169 is the number of targets, not goals.
Using the rule of 70, how many years does it take for income per head to double if it grows at 2 per cent a year?
D. About 35 years
Doubling time is about 70/2 = 35 years (exactly ln 2 / ln 1.02 = 35.0). Seventy years is the answer at 1 per cent; 14 years would need 5 per cent growth.
Real GDP grows at 5 per cent a year and population at 1.5 per cent. Using the rule of 70, approximately how long will it take for real income per head to double?
A. 20 years
Per-capita growth is about 5 - 1.5 = 3.5 per cent, so doubling takes about 70/3.5 = 20 years. Using total GDP growth gives 14 years (the tempting slip), dividing by 1.5 gives 47 years, and adding the rates (6.5) gives 10.8 years.
A household earns 150,000 units of local currency a year. The market exchange rate is 80 per US dollar and the PPP conversion factor is 20 per dollar. Its income is
D. 1,875 dollars at market rates and 7,500 PPP dollars
Market: 150,000/80 = 1,875. PPP: 150,000/20 = 7,500. PPP income is higher because non-traded goods are cheap in poorer countries. Swapping the two, or multiplying instead of dividing, are the usual errors.
In a district of 1 million people the poverty line is 2 dollars a day and the poverty gap index is 0.20. With perfect targeting, the minimum daily transfer needed to bring every poor person up to the line is
D. 400,000 dollars
Minimum cost = PG x z x N = 0.20 x 2 x 1,000,000 = 400,000 dollars a day. Forgetting to multiply by z gives 200,000, and dividing by z gives 100,000; multiplying z x N alone (2,000,000) gives the cost of giving everyone the full line.
GDP is 2,000 billion. The government targets 7 per cent growth, and the ICOR is 4.5. Using Harrod-Domar, the required investment is
C. 630 billion
Required increase in output = 0.07 x 2,000 = 140; investment = ICOR x change in output = 4.5 x 140 = 630 billion (31.5 per cent of GDP). 140 is the output increase, not investment; 31 divides the output increase by the ICOR (140/4.5 = 31.1) instead of multiplying; 90 is 4.5 per cent of 2,000.
The Grameen Bank model, formalised in Bangladesh in 1983, is known for
A. group lending without collateral
Muhammad Yunus's Grameen Bank used joint liability groups to lend without collateral, mainly to women; Yunus and the bank shared the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Its borrowers were mainly poor rural women.
The 'World Bank' in the narrow sense consists of
B. IBRD and IDA
The World Bank refers to IBRD and IDA; the World Bank Group adds IFC, MIGA and ICSID. The IMF is a separate Bretton Woods institution.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), which finances projects for rural poverty reduction, was established in
C. 1977, following the 1974 World Food Conference
IFAD was created in 1977 as a result of the 1974 World Food Conference. FAO dates from 1945 and the WFP from the early 1960s.
The IMF's main lending role is to
A. provide finance to members with balance-of-payments problems, usually with policy conditions
The IMF lends for balance-of-payments needs and conducts surveillance. Long-term project finance is the World Bank's (IBRD/IDA) role, equity investment the IFC's, and political-risk insurance MIGA's.
This plan follows where our questions actually fall, so the time goes where the marks are likely to be. It is our reading of the syllabus, not the exam body's weighting.
Read the manual chapters for these first and do every worked question you can find on them.
Aim for one sitting per unit, then mixed questions across them.
Learn the definitions, classifications and standard numbers; these units are more often recalled than worked.
Do these early in revision so they are fast on the day.
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