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Mean years of schooling, which is used as a variable to measure knowledge aspect of HDI, is the average number of years of education received by adults aged ________ and above.

  1. 18

  2. 21

  3. 25

  4. 16
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Mean years of schooling is calculated as the average number of years of education received by people aged 25 and older, based on educational attainment levels.

Multiple choice economics parameters (indicators) of development human development and human development index (hdi) hdi dynamic of human development

What are the three factors that determine population growth of a country?

  1. Natality, mortality, migration

  2. Standard of living, income, heredity

  3. Regional development, income, religion

  4. Religion, income and education
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Population growth is fundamentally determined by the balance of births (natality), deaths (mortality), and the movement of people (migration). These three demographic components dictate whether a population increases or decreases over time.

Multiple choice economics parameters (indicators) of development human development and human development index (hdi) hdi dynamic of human development

The National Food For Work scheme is now merged with which of the following?

  1. Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana

  2. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

  3. Bharat Nirman

  4. Indira Awas Yojana
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The National Food for Work Programme was launched in 2004 and was subsequently subsumed into the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in 2006 to provide a legal guarantee of employment.

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Over population has ________ the growth of the economy.

  1. increased

  2. stabilized

  3. decreased/reduced

  4. none of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Overpopulation generally strains resources, infrastructure, and public services, which hinders or reduces the overall growth rate of an economy by diverting capital from investment to consumption.

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The Mudaliar Committee was related to _________________.

  1. Export Import Policy

  2. EXIM Bank

  3. Health survey and planning committee

  4. Banking Sector
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
Mudaliar Committee, 1962 | National Health Portal Of India. This committee known as the “Health Survey and Planning Committee”, headed by Dr. A.L. Mudaliar, was appointed to assess the performance in health sector since the submission of Bhore Committee report.
Multiple choice economics parameters (indicators) of development human development and human development index (hdi) hdi dynamic of human development

Consider the following indications:
1) High birth rate and low death rate
2) Low birth rate and low death rate
3) High birth rate and high death rate
The correct sequence of these in the course of economic development is:

  1. 3, 2, 1

  2. 1, 3, 2

  3. 2, 3, 1

  4. 3, 1, 2
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The sequence explains the theory of demographic transition.Before the economic modernizations, the country had stable or very slow growing population as a result of a combination of high birth rate and almost equally high death rate. With economic development, resulting in higher incomes, improved public health facilities, there was marked a decline in mortality that gradually raised life expectancy. With declining death rate but birth rate not falling correspondingly, the country passed through the second stage, marking the beginning of a demographic transition. Finally, the state third comes when the force and influence of modernization and economic development cause fertility to decline so that eventually falling birth rate converge with the lower death rate.

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Economic growth without __________ is possible.

  1. economic development

  2. education

  3. capital trade

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

Economic growth refers to an increase in output, whereas economic development includes qualitative improvements in living standards and social indicators. It is possible to have growth in GDP without corresponding improvements in human development.

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Fill in the blanks from the alternatives given.
India's population is ___ largest in the world.

  1. 2nd

  2. 1st

  3. 3rd

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

Historically, India has been the second most populous country in the world. While recent data suggests it has surpassed China, in the context of standard academic textbooks, it is traditionally cited as 2nd.