{"id":108885,"date":"2021-02-17T08:41:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T08:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=108885"},"modified":"2021-02-17T08:41:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T08:41:15","slug":"ngozi-okonjo-iweala-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/ngozi-okonjo-iweala-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ngozi Okonjo Iweala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Recently a Nigerian woman Ngozi Okonjo Iweala has been appointed as the head of which of the following organisation?<br><\/strong>a) IMF<br>b) WTO<br>c) FATF<br>d) UNESCO<br><strong>Answer: (b)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ngozi Okonjo Iweala has been appointed as the head of the World Trade Organization.<\/li><li>The appointment will take effect on March 1, 2021.<\/li><li>She is an economist of Nigeria, and has become the first woman to hold this position.<\/li><li>Iweala also became the first African to hold this position.<\/li><li>She was appointed Director General by representatives of the 164 member states of the WTO.<\/li><li>The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization which is responsible for handling international trade between countries.<\/li><li>It was established in January 1995 under the Marrakesh Agreement.<\/li><li>The appointment of African women was made after US President Joe Biden approved the candidacy.<\/li><li>It should be known that Former U.S. President Donald Trump had earlier blocked her candidacy.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; Rajesh Tripathi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wto.org\/english\/news_e\/news21_e\/dgno_15feb21_e.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.wto.org\/english\/news_e\/news21_e\/dgno_15feb21_e.htm<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/02\/15\/968077810\/ngozi-okonjo-iweala-makes-history-as-wtos-first-african-and-female-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/02\/15\/968077810\/ngozi-okonjo-iweala-makes-history-as-wtos-first-african-and-female-leader<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently a Nigerian woman Ngozi Okonjo Iweala has been appointed as the head of which of the following organisation?a) IMFb) WTOc) FATFd) UNESCOAnswer: (b)Related Facts:- Ngozi Okonjo Iweala has been appointed as the head of the World Trade Organization. The appointment will take effect on March 1, 2021. She is an economist of Nigeria, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":108886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-108885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108887,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108885\/revisions\/108887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}