Poverty And Unemployment One Liner Questions & Answers
| Questions | Answers | |
| 1 | In which year UNO adopted a definition of absolute poverty? | 1995 |
| 2 | The basis of poverty estimates in India is – | Household consumption expenditure |
| 3 | Unemployment and poverty estimates in India are based on – | NSSO household consumption expenditure survey |
| 4 | The basis of determining the poverty line in India is – | Consumption data |
| 5 | According to the Planning Commission, how many average daily calories per person define the poverty line in urban areas? | 2100 |
| 6 | Persons below the poverty line in India are classified as such based on whether – | They are entitled to a minimum prescribed food basket |
| 7 | In a given year in India, official poverty lines are higher in some States than in others because – | Price levels vary from State to State |
| 8 | Who has determined the poverty line, Rs. 32/– per day, per person consumption expenditure for rural areas, and Rs. 47/– per day, per person consumption for urban areas in India? | Prof. C. Rangarajan Committee |
| 9 | Measures of distribution of income – | Lorenz Curve |
| 10 | The idea of ‘Cultural Poverty’ was given by – | Oscar Lewis |
| 11 | The concept of ‘Vicious Circle of Poverty’ is related to – | Nurkse |
| 12 | The cyclic poor are those – | Who mostly remain non-poor but sometimes they become poor |
| 13 | Tendulkar Committee has estimated that in India the percentage of the population below the poverty line is – | 37.2 |
| 14 | Among which one of the following sets of social/religious groups is the extent of poverty the highest, as per Government Statistics for the nineties? | Tribals in Bihar, Orissa, M.P. and Maharashtra |
| 15 | The Mitigating Poverty in Western Rajasthan (MPoWR) Programme is supported by – |
International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) and Ratan Tata Trust
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| 16 | To know whether the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, it is necessary to compare – |
The distribution of income of an identical set of income recipients in different periods of time
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| 17 | The aim of the differentiated interest scheme was to provide concessional loans to – | Weaker Section of Society |
| 18 | The unemployment problem leads to poverty because – | People living below the poverty line increase |
| 19 | Most of the unemployment in India is – | Structural |
| 20 | Disguised unemployment generally means – | The marginal productivity of labor is zero |
| 21 | In India disguised unemployment is found in – | Agricultural sector |
| 22 | The number of persons who remained unemployed for a major part of the year is called – | Usual status unemployment |
| 23 | The growth rate of which one of the following sectors has very low employment elasticity? | Mixed Farming |
| 24 | According to NSS 61st round data, unemployment at current daily status in rural as well as urban areas is nearly – | 8 % |