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Poverty alleviation measures lacked people's participation and largely remained government sponsored programmes.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A

__________ have been high with regards to poverty alleviation measures due to corruption and inefficiency in administration and management.

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  1. Leakages

  2. Execution

  3. Development

  4. None of the above

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Correct Option: A

Poverty alleviation programmes have led to shift in proportion of population below poverty line (BPL) from 55% in 1973-74 to _______ in 2011-12.

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  1. 18%

  2. 32%

  3. 37%

  4. 22%

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Correct Option: D

Economic development would be meaningless unless the growth ultimately reaches the ___________.

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  1. rich strata of the society

  2. masses

  3. business firms

  4. government

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Correct Option: B

_____________ is set at the level of consumption expenditure per person required for the minimum calorie intake.

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  1. Malnutrition

  2. Poverty line

  3. Unemployment level

  4. Inflation

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Correct Option: B

____________, in India, has been described as that situation where an individual fails to earn sufficient income to buy minimum means of subsistence.

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  1. Poverty

  2. Poverty line

  3. Social poverty

  4. Income poverty

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Correct Option: A

The poverty line is India has been defined largely in terms of _________.

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  1. income poverty

  2. food poverty

  3. human poverty

  4. social poverty

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Correct Option: B

The poverty line, in India, indicates _______________.

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  1. income level required to buy minimum quantity of food items

  2. income level required to buy minimum quantity of basic food items and a few selected non-food items.

  3. economic growth required to fulfill the minimum needs of total population

  4. income level required to buy few selected non-food items.

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Correct Option: B

Poverty line is determined in terms of minimum nutritional level of food energy required for subsistence which is expressed in terms of ______________.

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  1. daily intake of calories

  2. weekly intake of calories

  3. daily intake of protein

  4. daily intake of energy values

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Correct Option: A

The extent of poverty, in India, is measured by _________, i.e, estimating the number of persons falling below poverty line and measuring them as a proportion of population. 

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  1. headcount ratio

  2. population ratio

  3. both 'a and b'

  4. neither 'a nor b'

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Correct Option: A