Growth Models and Human Rights Questions and Answers

Which of the following agreement is blamed for raising drug price thereby adversely affect the right to health ?

A.TRIPS
B.TRIMS
C.GATT
D.AOA

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: A

The TRIPS Agreement, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, is blamed for raising drug prices. It requires member states to grant product patents, including on medicines, for at least twenty years, which delays cheaper generic versions and so affects the right to health. TRIMS deals with investment measures linked to trade in goods, GATT with tariffs and trade in goods, and the Agreement on Agriculture with farm trade. None of the last three governs patents on medicines. The answer is TRIPS.

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Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer with the help of codes given below :

List - I Millennium Development Goal	List - II Issue
a. Goal 1	i. Gender equality
b. Goal 2	ii. Poverty eradication
c. Goal 3	iii. Combat HIV/AIDS
d. Goal 6	iv. Universal primary education

Codes : a b c d

A.i ii iii iv
B.ii iv i iii
C.ii iv iii i
D.iv ii iii i

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: B

Millennium Development Goal 1 is the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, Goal 2 is universal primary education, Goal 3 is gender equality and Goal 6 is combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. The match is a-ii, b-iv, c-i, d-iii, option B. Option A lists the issues in the order printed, giving poverty to Goal 3, and C and D place HIV/AIDS or gender equality against the wrong goal.

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Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer with the help of codes given below :

List - I Declaration	List - II Subject Matter
a. Rome Declaration, 1996	i. Gender justice
b. Stockholm Declaration 1972	ii. Food Security
c. Doha Declaration, 2001	iii. Environment Protection
d. Beijing Declaration	iv. Public Health

Codes : a b c d

A.ii iii iv i
B.i iv iii ii
C.i ii iii iv
D.iv i ii iii

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: A

The Rome Declaration of 1996 is on food security (the World Food Summit), the Stockholm Declaration of 1972 on environment protection, the Doha Declaration of 2001 on public health (TRIPS and public health), and the Beijing Declaration on gender justice. The match is a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i, option A. The other options place the Stockholm or Rome declarations against gender justice or public health, which they do not address.

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Match the summits in List - I with subject matter of the summits in

List - II :

List - I Summits	List - II Subject Matter
a. Johannesburg Summit, 2002	i. Right to reproductive health
b. Cairo Summit, 1994	ii. Right to housing
c. Millennium Summit, 2000	iii. Sustainable development
d. Istanbul Summit, 1996	iv. Developmental goal

Codes : a b c d

A.i iii ii iv
B.iii i iv ii
C.iv iii ii i
D.i iv ii iii

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: B

The Johannesburg Summit of 2002 was about sustainable development, the Cairo Summit of 1994 (the International Conference on Population and Development) about reproductive health, the Millennium Summit of 2000 set developmental goals and the Istanbul Summit of 1996 (Habitat II) dealt with housing. The match is a-iii, b-i, c-iv, d-ii, option B. Option A puts reproductive health against Johannesburg, and C and D mismatch Cairo and Istanbul.

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Who among the following argued that rapid economic growth would lead towards more democratization ?

A.Samuel Huntington
B.Jagdish Bhagwati
C.Amartya Sen
D.Vanhanen

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: A

The official key gives Samuel Huntington as the author who argued that rapid economic growth would lead to more democratisation. His work on the third wave of democratisation linked economic development to the spread of democracy. I could not trace this exact claim to a source, so the key is followed.

Jagdish Bhagwati is an economist known for work on trade and globalisation. Amartya Sen argues that development is freedom and that democracy and development support each other, but the key does not give him this claim. Vanhanen is known for an index of democratisation, not for this argument.

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Assertion (A) : Corruption is cause of poverty and underdevelopment.

Reason (R) : Poor are corrupt and underdeveloped.

A.Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
B.Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
C.(A) is true, but (R) is false.
D.(A) is false, but (R) is true.

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: C

The assertion is true and the reason is false. Corruption diverts public funds, raises the costs of services and discourages investment, so it contributes to poverty and underdevelopment. The reason turns the cause around: it says the poor are corrupt, which is a prejudice and not a finding, and it does not account for the assertion.

Both correct, with or without explanation, is wrong because of the reason. The option that says (A) is false is wrong because the harm of corruption to development is widely recognised.

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