POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT

Q1.Learning Poverty Count(LPC) can be defined as?

Ans:-One which measures the number of children who do not meet the basic learning benchmark

Q2.World Indicators of Skills for Employment(WISE) was established by ?

Ans:-Organisation for economic co-operation and development(OECD)

Q3.Structural Unemployment arises due to ?

Ans:-Heavy Industrial Bias

Q4.The standard of living in a country is represented by its ?

Ans:-Per Capita Income

Q5.Which FYP emphasised on removal of poverty for the first time ?

Ans:-Fifth

Q6.A situation where we have people whose level of income is not sufficient to meet the minimum consumption expenditure is considered as?

Ans:-Absolute Poverty

Q7.Nature of employment in agriculture in India is ?

Ans:-Seasonal & Disguised

Q8.Head Count Ration is related to ?

Ans:-Poverty Line

Q9.In which type of unemployment do the marginal productivity of the workers is zero ?

Ans:-Disguised

Q10.The official data on poverty made available by the?

Ans:-Planning Commission and the estimates on the basis of Consumption expenditure ,data collected by NSSO of the Ministry of Statistics and programme implementation.

Q11.The Multidimensional poverty index (MPI) is developed by ?

Ans:-UNDP

Q12.Human Poverty Index (HPI) measures the deprivation as a composite index of ?

Ans:-Longetivity , Knowledge and Standard of Living.

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