Question 61. The World Bank’s ‘ease of doing business’ report considers a number of factors in its assessment. These _____________ what it takes to start a business, procuring licences and permits to operate, registering properties, protection of minority investors, certainty in taxation, enforcement of contracts and resolving insolvency. The government _____________ to get India in the top 50 within the next two years. For that to be achieved, for starters, arbitrary bans and diktats need _____________. Meat sellers and businesses, both in the organised and unorganised sectors, have been _____________, as have the food chains selling meat-based food products. With revenues being lost, and unexpected impediments to doing business, this unpredictability and wanton disregard for the interests of businesses hardly bodes well.

Question 62. Though there’s a lot of buzz on rehabilitating the refugees, the world _____________ needs to focus all its energies on ways to consummate the 4-year long civil war. The world is _____________ over the Syrian crisis. Russia and Iran backing the Assad regime whereas US, Europe alongside few Gulf countries want Assad to vacate power. The _____________ want Assad to continue to prevent Syria from falling into further chaos, thus allowing subsequent strengthening of IS’s foothold. The latter want to dislodge Assad’s regime _____________ all the atrocities conducted by him; the reason behind the break of civil war.

Question 63. The macro-policy stance and climate are, however, not _____________ to growth. The US Federal Reserve has _____________ the record of greater success. It achieved this with a dual mandate and not a monetarist perspective — of which inflation targeting is a collateral product. The dual mandate underscores the sovereignty of employment — i.e. growth — as an independent policy objective and _____________treat inflation as a monetary _____________.

Question 64. Through the ‘product envelopment’ strategy, firms expand features of their platforms and offerings. The _____________ Myntra by Flipkart for about $300 million is a notable example. This has helped Flipkart _____________ its product line in fashion apparel and target brand-conscious customers. By acquiring Freecharge, Snapdeal could _____________ the mobile payment platform into its ecommerce offerings. The same holds for Flipkart recently acquiring FX Mart, which provides a prepaid wallet licence so that payment platforms _____________ into Flipkart’s online stores platform.

Question 65. Recent plunges in China’s stock markets, currency value and economic growth have _____________ global fears. After a long spell of gravity defying rise, the sudden spectacle of China stumbling and panicking _____________ confidence in President Xi Jinping’s ‘dream of national _____________ has upset calculations of not just Chinese consumers and producers, but _____________ international stakeholders.

Question 66. Soon Gasim’s business interests were targeted and he was hit with a $100 million fine for delay in developing the islands that were leased out to him. His bank accounts were _____________, his business temporarily crippled; so much so that he _____________ pay salaries of thousands of his employees. Gasim was forced to make a deal with then Tourism Minister, now elevated to the post of Vice President, Mohd. Adheeb, widely _____________ the money bag of the President. Never before had the Tourism Industry, the mainstay of the country’s economy had been caught in the crosshairs of country’s politics. Yameen soon realized that _____________ inviting the wrath of thousands of employees, it is better to strike down Gasim’s political ambitions.

Question 67. Consider this target: “By 2030 ensure all learners _____________ knowledge and skills _____________ promote sustainable development, including among others through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship, and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s _____________ to sustainable development”. It is hard to know what is promised, _____________ how it will be implemented, monitored or evaluated.

Question 68. Three actions troubled the pharma lobby: In 2012, the Indian Patent Office granted India’s first compulsory licensing order in favour of Natco Pharma, allowing it to manufacture Nexavar, an anti-cancer drug patented by Bayer In 2005, Parliament _____________ Section 3(d) of the Patents Act and declined to provide intellectual property patent protection _____________ changes in drug formulations that did not result in “enhancement of the known efficacy of that substance“, a practice that is called “evergreening” In 2013, the Supreme Court refused to grant a patent for Novartis’ cancer drug Glivec, citing and upholding Section 3(d) Compulsory licensing is a provision governments can use to ensure _____________ of medicines in case of public health emergencies. Many in the government _____________ the 2012 order did not meet these rigorous benchmarks and was probably unnecessary. However, on Section 3(d) it would appear India is on good ground and the case against “evergreening” is strong.

Question 69. Birds migrate long stretches, sometimes even thousands of miles between its breeding and non-breeding ground, a journey _____________ many hiccups, often perilous, but it doesn’t have the luxury to reproduce and blossom in a fixed habitat. It has to fly to a new spot, sometimes _____________ food, some other times to escape harsh winters, the reasoning the same each time-the desire to survive. Migration as a phenomenon is nature’s remarkable way of _____________ Darwin’s theory-‘Survival of the fittest’; the Syrian migrants _____________ the theory even more vehemently.

Question 70. This heavy taxation _____________ in beer being seen as a ‘high-end’ drink driving drinkers to hard spirits. The current policies of each and every state government are _____________ aimed at raising revenues from the alcoholic beverage sector without differentiating between categories of low and high alcoholic beverages. These policies _____________ social needs and objectives, thereby driving drinkers to opt for liquor consumption. One must appeal to the states to stop looking _____________ at beer producers to fund their coffers.