CBSE Class 11 Economics Poverty MCQs Set B

Question: Non poor implies persons who are
a) Transient poor
b) Churning poor
c) Chronic poor
d) Never poor
Answer: d 

Question: People who are always poor and those who are usually poor but who may sometimes have a little more money (example: casual workers) are grouped together as the____________
a) Chronic poor
b) Churning poor
c) Occasionally poor
d) Transient poor
Answer: a

Question: Small farmers or seasonal workers who regularly move in and out of poverty, fall in the category of:
a) Chronic poor
b) Never poor
c) Churning poor
d) Usually poor
Answer: c

Question: The educated unemployed from low – income families in rural and urban areas can get financial help to set up any kind of enterprise that generates employment under
a) Rural Employment Generation Programme (REGP)
b) Prime Minister’s Rozgar Yojana (PMRY)
c) Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY)
d) Swarna Jayariti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY)
Answer: b

Question: In India, a ___________ rate of economic growth is an essential condition for poverty removal.
a) Low
b) Very Low
c) High
d) Very High
Answer: c

Question: The calorie requirement for measuring poverty line is higher in rural areas than urban areas because in rural area:
a) People do not enjoy as much as people in urban areas
b) Food items in are expensive
c) People are engaged in mental work
d) People are engaged in physical labour
Answer: d

Question: ____________ programme intend to improve the food and nutritional status of the poor.
a) Midday meal scheme
b) Public distribution system
c) Integrated child development scheme
d) All of the options
Answer: d

Question: Under which one of the following self-employment Programmes. One can get financial assistance in the form of bank loans to set up small industries?
a) Rural Employment Generation Programme (REGP)
b) Prime Minister’s Rozgar Yojana (PMRY)
c) Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY)
d) All of the options
Answer: a

Question: Poverty line divides the population as poor and ____________.
a) Rich
b) Very poor
c) Non poor
d) All of the options
Answer: c

Question: Who was the first person to define poverty in terms of Jail Cost of Living?
a) Dadabai Naroji
b) V.K.R.V. Rao
c) Willian Digby
d) R.C. Desai
Answer: a

Question: The approach to addressing poverty through public expenditure in providing minimum basic amenities to the people has been initiated from the
a) Second Five Year plan
b) Third Five Year plan
c) Fifth Five Year plan
d) Seventh Five Year plan
Answer: c

Question: Poverty index developed by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen was named as:
a) Poverty gap index
b) Sen’s index
c) Squared poverty gap
d) None of the options
Answer: b

Question: Which programe is restricted as ‘National Rural Linelihiid Mission’?
a) National Food For Work Programme
b) Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna
c) Rural Employment Generation Programme
d) Prime Minister’s Rozgar Yojna
Answer: b

Question: _____________ organisation collects statistics on poverty in India.
a) Planning commission
b) NSSO
c) Ministry of statistics
d) None of the options
Answer: b

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Question: Number of people living below poverty line . (Absolute poverty/Relative poverty)
Answer: Absolute poverty

Question: Three major programmes that aim at improving the food and nutritional status of the poor are ________________.
Answer: Public Distribution System, Integrated Child Development Scheme and Midday Meal Scheme

Question . One of the noted poverty alleviation programmes initiated in the 1970, was ____________.
Answer: Food for work

Question: _____________ is initiated by the central government, under which elderly people who do not have anyone to take care of them are given pension to sustain themselves. Poor women who are destitute and widows are also covered under this scheme.
Answer: National Social Assistance Programme

Question: From 2014, a `scheme called________________ people in India are en ouraged to open bank accounts.
Answer: Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana

Question: The minimum calorie intake in rural area is 2100 calories. (True /False)
Answer: False

Question: Initially, the self- Help droups (SHGs) are encouraged to save money and land among themselves as small loans. Later, through banks, the government provides partial financial assistance to SHGs which then decide whom the loan is to be given to for self-employment activities. ________________ is one such programme.
Answer: Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY)

Question: The proportion of poor in India during 1973-2012 has come down from________________ to ________________.
Answer: 55percent ,22percent

Question: Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) has now been restructured as ___________. A similar programme called _________ has also been in place for urban poor.
Answer: National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRCM); National Urban Livelihoods Mission

Question: __________ is a group of people who regularly move in and out of poverty (example: small farmers and seasonal workers).
Answer: churning poor

Question: In August 2005, the parliament passed a new Act to provide guaranteed wage employment to every rural household whose adult volunteer is to do unskilled manual work for a minimum of 100 days in a year. This Act is known as ______________.
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. 

Question: A line or continuum from the very poor to the absolutely rich classifies various kinds of poor and non-poor, with the ________________dividing the poor from the non-poor.
Answer: The Poverty Line