Poverty as a Challenge (Class IX)

This is the correct answer. Along with rural poverty, urban poverty is also high in Orissa. The poverty ratio in Orissa is 37.6 per cent.

This is the correct statement. It provided employment to 220 crores person days of employment to 4.78 crore households.

This is the correct answer. Prime Minister Rozgar Yojana (PMRY) was started in 1993. The aim of the programme is to create self employment opportunities for educated unemployed youth in rural areas and small towns.

This is the correct answer. Poverty levels in China have come down from 85 percent in 1981 to 14 percent in 2008 to 6 percent in 2011. This has happened as a result of rapid economic growth and massive investments in human resource development.

This is the correct answer as the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations aim to reduce the number of people living below poverty line to half by 2015.

This is the correct answer. The current anti-poverty strategy of the government is based broadly on two planks, which are promotion of economic growth and targeted anti-poverty programmes.

This is the correct answer as Russia was a socialist country as it was considered that officially, it was non-existent earlier, but it has now resurfaced.

This is the correct answer. Social scientists look at social indicators like illiteracy level, lack of general resistance due to malnutrition, lack of access to health care, lack of job opportunities, lack of access to safe drinking water and sanitation.

This is the correct answer. Sri Lanka has only 4% of its population living below the UN specified poverty line of $1.25.

This is the correct answer. The accepted average calorie requirement in India is 2400 calories per person per day in rural areas.

Kerala has focused its growth on the human resources sector. This, in turn, has helped the poverty ratio. 

This is incorrect as for making comparisons between developing countries, the World Bank uses a uniform standard for the poverty line. This has been set as $1.25 per day.

This is the correct answer as vulnerability to poverty is the greater probability of certain communities or individuals of becoming, or remaining, poor in the coming years. These communities may be members of backward castes and individuals may be widows or physically handicapped persons.

The poverty line is estimated periodically by conducting sample surveys. These surveys are conducted by National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO).

This is the correct answer as the poverty line is a line that demarcates the population into poor and non-poor.