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Multiple choice rural development poverty rural economics economics

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

  1. Food security

  2. Marital Status

  3. Debt

  4. Literacy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

BPL status is determined by economic and consumption factors like income, expenditure, and food security. Marital status is a demographic characteristic and is not used as a criterion for poverty.

Multiple choice rural development poverty rural economics economics

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.

  1. $1, 3$ and $4$

  2. $1$ and $4$

  3. $2$ and $3$

  4. $2, 3$ and $4$
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
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.

Multiple choice rural development poverty rural economics economics

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

  1. Census $1971$

  2. Census $1961$

  3. Census $1951$

  4. Census $1941$
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The 1961 Census recorded a sex ratio of 941 females per 1000 males, which was the highest recorded in India in the post-independence period prior to the 2011 Census.

Multiple choice rural development poverty rural economics economics

Poverty lines are expressed in terms of overall _______________.

  1. Per capita income

  2. Per capita consumption expenditure

  3. Per capita entertainment expenditure

  4. Per capita development expenditure
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Multiple choice rural development poverty rural economics economics

Subsistence farming means _____________.

  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
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
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.

Multiple choice rural development poverty rural economics economics

In commercial farming there is ____________________.

  1. Less labor and high mechanization

  2. More labor and less mechanization

  3. More labour and more mechanisation

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Commercial farming is characterized by large-scale production, high levels of mechanization, and the use of modern technology to maximize efficiency, typically requiring less labor per unit of output compared to subsistence farming.

Multiple choice rural development poverty rural economics economics

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

  1. The middle East

  2. Asia

  3. Sub-Sahara Africa

  4. Latin America
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Sub-Saharan Africa consistently ranks as the poorest region globally, characterized by the lowest GDP per capita and high rates of extreme poverty.

Multiple choice rural development poverty rural economics economics

'Poverty Line' means ____________________.

  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
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The poverty line is a threshold of income or consumption expenditure below which an individual is considered to be living in poverty.

Multiple choice rural development poverty rural economics economics

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

  1. Developed countries

  2. BRICs countries

  3. Latin America

  4. Developing countries
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The vast majority of the world's population resides in developing countries, which include nations with emerging or lower-income economies.

Multiple choice rural development poverty rural economics economics

India's basic problem is relative poverty.

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

India's primary poverty challenge is absolute poverty, which refers to the inability to afford basic necessities, rather than relative poverty, which compares income levels within a society.