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Mean years of schooling, which is used as a variable to measure knowledge aspect of HDI, is the average number of years of education received by adults aged ________ and above.

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  1. 18

  2. 21

  3. 25

  4. 16

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Correct Option: C

What are the three factors that determine population growth of a country?

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  1. Natality, mortality, migration

  2. Standard of living, income, heredity

  3. Regional development, income, religion

  4. Religion, income and education

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Correct Option: A

The National Food For Work scheme is now merged with which of the following?

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  1. Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana

  2. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

  3. Bharat Nirman

  4. Indira Awas Yojana

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Correct Option: B

Over population has ________ the growth of the economy.

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  1. increased

  2. stabilized

  3. decreased/reduced

  4. none of these

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Correct Option: C

The Mudaliar Committee was related to _________________.

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  1. Export Import Policy

  2. EXIM Bank

  3. Health survey and planning committee

  4. Banking Sector

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:
Mudaliar Committee, 1962 | National Health Portal Of India. This committee known as the “Health Survey and Planning Committee”, headed by Dr. A.L. Mudaliar, was appointed to assess the performance in health sector since the submission of Bhore Committee report.

Consider the following indications:
1) High birth rate and low death rate
2) Low birth rate and low death rate
3) High birth rate and high death rate
The correct sequence of these in the course of economic development is:

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  1. 3, 2, 1

  2. 1, 3, 2

  3. 2, 3, 1

  4. 3, 1, 2

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The sequence explains the theory of demographic transition.Before the economic modernizations, the country had stable or very slow growing population as a result of a combination of high birth rate and almost equally high death rate. With economic development, resulting in higher incomes, improved public health facilities, there was marked a decline in mortality that gradually raised life expectancy. With declining death rate but birth rate not falling correspondingly, the country passed through the second stage, marking the beginning of a demographic transition. Finally, the state third comes when the force and influence of modernization and economic development cause fertility to decline so that eventually falling birth rate converge with the lower death rate.

Economic growth means ________.
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  1. more output

  2. less output

  3. zero output

  4. none of these

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Correct Option: A

Economic growth without __________ is possible.

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  1. economic development

  2. education

  3. capital trade

  4. none of these

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Correct Option: A

State whether the following statements are True/False.
High birth rate is found in developing countries.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: B

Fill in the blanks from the alternatives given.
India's population is ___ largest in the world.

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  1. 2nd 

  2. 1st

  3. 3rd

  4. none of these

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Correct Option: A