According to the passage, the financial markets in emerging market economies, including India, had an adverse impact in recent years due to: Weak global economic prospects.

1. Uncertainties in the international financial markets.
2. Sovereign risk concerns in the Euro area.
3. Bad monsoons and the resultant crop loss.

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

The need for policy intervention to mitigate risks in agriculture is because

While traveling in a Delhi-registered commercial taxi from Delhi to an adjacent city (another State), your taxi driver informs you that as he has no permit for running the taxi in that city, he will stop at its Transport Office and pay the prescribed fee of Rs. 40 for a day. While paying the fee at the counter, you find that the transport clerk is taking an extra Rs. 50 for which no receipt is being given. You are in a hurry for your meeting. In such circumstances, what would you do?

According to the passage, malnutrition in children can be reduced

You are the head of your office. There are certain houses reserved for allotment to the office staff, and you have been given the discretion to do so. A set of rules for the allotment of the houses has been laid down by you and has been made public. Your personal secretary, who is very close to you, comes to you and pleads that as his father is seriously ill, he should be given priority in the allotment of a house. The office secretariat that examined the request as per the rules turns down the request and recommends the procedure to be followed according to the rules. You do not want to annoy your personal secretary. In such circumstances, what would you do?

A person lives in a far-off village which is almost two hours by bus. The villager’s neighbor is a very powerful landlord who is trying to occupy the poor villager’s land by force. You are the District Magistrate and busy in a meeting called by a local Minister. The villager has come all the way, by bus and on foot, to see you and given an application seeking protection from the powerful landlord. The villager keeps on waiting outside the meeting hall for an hour. You come out of the meeting and are rushing to another meeting. The villager follows you to submit his application. What would you do?