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Underemployment is also called ___________.

political science people as resource introduction and features of unemployment quality of population problem of unemployment in india

  1. Technological unemployment

  2. Disguised unemployment

  3. Seasonal unemployment

  4. Educated unemployment

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Disguised Unemployment is the unemployment that does not affect aggregate output. It is a situation when people are working less than they are capable of doing. It exists where part of the labour force is either left without work or is working in a redundant manner where worker productivity is essentially zero.

Poverty declined substantially in China and Southeast Asian countries as a result of rapid economic growth and massive investments in ___________.

political science people as resource introduction and features of unemployment quality of population problem of unemployment in india

  1. human resource development

  2. human recharge development

  3. heavy resource development

  4. human resource demand

  5. none of the above

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

In China and Southeast Asian countries, the governments invested a lot of money in human resource development. Various programmes were conducted with respect to employment creation, literacy, health and hygiene.

All this helped to reduce poverty in these nations in the last decade.

In how many districts was the plan of 'Right to work' initially implemented?

political science people as resource introduction and features of unemployment quality of population problem of unemployment in india

  1. $200$

  2. $300$

  3. $400$

  4. $500$

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The "Right to work" plan under NREGA came into force in 2006 and covered 200 districts which were further extended to an additional 130 districts in 2008.

The fear of ______ made workers hostile to the introduction of new technology.

political science people as resource introduction and features of unemployment quality of population problem of unemployment in india

  1. employment

  2. unemployment

  3. less pay

  4. bad treatment

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Fear of unemployment made workers hostile to the technology. When Spinning Jenny was introduced in the woollen industry, women who survived on hand spinning began attacking the new machines.

NREGA and PMRY are measures to __________.

political science people as resource introduction and features of unemployment quality of population problem of unemployment in india

  1. extend education to rural people

  2. extend health care facility to rural people

  3. alleviate poverty

  4. none of these

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

NREGA and PMRY programmes are aimed at employment generation to alleviate the poverty of poor households in rural areas and unemployed educated youth in small towns respectively.