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Which of the following is not considered as a parameter for defining the Below Poverty Line (BPL) status of a person?

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  1. Food security

  2. Marital Status

  3. Debt

  4. Literacy

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Correct Option: B

Which of the following statements relating to poverty in India are correct?
$1$. The concept of poverty line is helpful in assessing the extent of absolute poverty in the country.
$2$. Poverty line helps us to assess relative as well as absolute poverty.
$3$. Poverty line should change with changes in the price level.
$4$. Relative poverty can exist even in the absence of absolute poverty.
Select the correct answer using the codes given.

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  1. $1, 3$ and $4$

  2. $1$ and $4$

  3. $2$ and $3$

  4. $2, 3$ and $4$

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

In India, the concept of poverty line is helpful in assessing the extent of absolute poverty in the country. Poverty line should also change with variation in price level but there is no relation between absolute and relative poverty. Relative poverty, when we speak in terms of relatively poor or rich, we make pairwise comparison. Person A may be poorer than or richer than or equal to person B by the scale of criterion(say income) which we take into account for comparison, call it relative poverty or inequality.

Prior to Census $2011$, in which of the following censuses was the highest sex ratio recorded in India?

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  1. Census $1971$

  2. Census $1961$

  3. Census $1951$

  4. Census $1941$

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Correct Option: B

Poverty lines are expressed in terms of overall _______________.

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  1. Per capita income

  2. Per capita consumption expenditure

  3. Per capita entertainment expenditure

  4. Per capita development expenditure

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Correct Option: A

Subsistence farming means _____________.

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  1. cultivation of cash corps

  2. production of food crops just enough for self-consumption

  3. dependence on rainfall for irrigation

  4. production primarily with the motive to sell

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

In subsistence fanning, a farmer mainly produces those crops which are required to meet the most immediate needs of himself and his family. These are primarily food crops, and to some extent non-food crops like cotton, sugarcane etc.

In commercial farming there is ____________________.

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  1. Less labor and high mechanization

  2. More labor and less mechanization

  3. More labour and more mechanisation

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: A

Which of the following is rated the poorest region of the world?

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  1. The middle East

  2. Asia

  3. Sub-Sahara Africa

  4. Latin America

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Correct Option: C

'Poverty Line' means ____________________.

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  1. The line of demarcation between the rich and the poor

  2. The lowest level in the ladder of economic prosperity

  3. The state at which there is a leveling down between the rich and the poor

  4. The minimum level of per capita consumer expenditure

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Correct Option: D

Out of the total population of the world, about $80\%$ lives in _________________.

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  1. Developed countries

  2. BRICs countries

  3. Latin America

  4. Developing countries

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Correct Option: D

India's basic problem is relative poverty.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: B