Economic Reforms & Foreign Trade Questions with Solutions

This topic covers the 1991 economic reforms (liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation), industrial policies, foreign trade and India's main trading partners, balance of payments, current and capital accounts, exchange rates, FDI and FPI, and foreign trade policy. Common questions ask what LPG stands for, what the current account includes, the difference between FDI and FPI, and what devaluation of the rupee means. The 1991 reforms were introduced by the government of P. V. Narasimha Rao, with Manmohan Singh as Finance Minister. Practise the economic reforms and foreign trade questions below, written in the style of the general awareness sections of exams such as SSC, banking, railways, CUET GAT, MAH CET and CLAT. Each question comes with a detailed explanation that adds related facts, so every question helps you revise more than one point.