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Poverty alleviation measures lacked people's participation and largely remained government sponsored programmes.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: A

__________ have been high with regards to poverty alleviation measures due to corruption and inefficiency in administration and management.

  1. Leakages

  2. Execution

  3. Development

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A

Poverty alleviation programmes have led to shift in proportion of population below poverty line (BPL) from 55% in 1973-74 to _______ in 2011-12.

  1. 18%

  2. 32%

  3. 37%

  4. 22%


Correct Option: D

Economic development would be meaningless unless the growth ultimately reaches the ___________.

  1. rich strata of the society

  2. masses

  3. business firms

  4. government


Correct Option: B

_____________ is set at the level of consumption expenditure per person required for the minimum calorie intake.

  1. Malnutrition

  2. Poverty line

  3. Unemployment level

  4. Inflation


Correct Option: B

____________, in India, has been described as that situation where an individual fails to earn sufficient income to buy minimum means of subsistence.

  1. Poverty

  2. Poverty line

  3. Social poverty

  4. Income poverty


Correct Option: A

The poverty line is India has been defined largely in terms of _________.

  1. income poverty

  2. food poverty

  3. human poverty

  4. social poverty


Correct Option: B

The poverty line, in India, indicates _______________.

  1. income level required to buy minimum quantity of food items

  2. income level required to buy minimum quantity of basic food items and a few selected non-food items.

  3. economic growth required to fulfill the minimum needs of total population

  4. income level required to buy few selected non-food items.


Correct Option: B

Poverty line is determined in terms of minimum nutritional level of food energy required for subsistence which is expressed in terms of ______________.

  1. daily intake of calories

  2. weekly intake of calories

  3. daily intake of protein

  4. daily intake of energy values


Correct Option: A

The extent of poverty, in India, is measured by _________, i.e, estimating the number of persons falling below poverty line and measuring them as a proportion of population. 

  1. headcount ratio

  2. population ratio

  3. both 'a and b'

  4. neither 'a nor b'


Correct Option: A