Important Questions for CBSE Class 11 Economics Chapter 4 Poverty which is outlined by expert Economics teachers from the latest version of CBSE (NCERT) books.
CBSE Class 11 Economics Chapter – 4 Important Questions
Question 1
What is poverty?
Answer:
Poverty is explained as an inability to fulfill the meagre necessities like house, food, clothing, health facilities, health, and more. Extreme poverty refers to the complete lack of the means of needs to be met, basic food, shelter, and clothing.
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Question 2
What are the people who regularly move in and out of poverty, known as?
a. Chronic poorÂ
b. Churning poor
c. Occasionally poor
d. Major poor
Answer:
b. Churning poor
Question 3
Who is known as the chronic poor?
Answer:
People who are usually poor and always poor are primarily known as chronic poor.
Question 4
UWSP and USEP are the two components of which yojana?
a. Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana
b. Indira Awas YojanaÂ
c. Antodaya Anna Yojana
d. Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana
Answer:
d. Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana
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Question 5
Five states account for 70% of India’s poverty. Which of the following is not one of them?
a. Bihar
b. Andhra Pradesh
c. Uttar Pradesh
d. Kerala
Answer: Kerala
Question 6
When was Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana launched?
a. 2001
b. 1999
c. 2005
d. 2011
Answer:
a. 2001
Question 7
By which year the government was aiming to meet the Millennium Development Goals including the rate of global poverty?
 a. 2017
 b. 2013
  c. 2015
  d. 2009
Answer:
c. 2015
Question 8
What is the National Food for Work Programme?
Answer:
The National Food for Work Programme was launched in February 2001. The primary aim of this programme was to increase food security via wage employment in the drought devastated rural areas in eight states.
Question 9
Under the National Food for Work Programme, how can the wages be paid to the workers?
a. In the form of food
b. In the form of cash
c. Neither cash nor food
d. Partly in cash and partly in food
Answer:
a. In the form of food
Question 10
What is relative poverty?
Answer:
Relative poverty is defined as the poverty of people when we compare it with other people who belong to different regions or nations.
Question 11
Explain the causes of poverty.
Answer:
Poverty is explained as an inability to fulfill the meagre necessities like house, food, clothing, health facilities, health, and more. Extreme poverty refers to the complete lack of the means of needs to be met, basic food, shelter, and clothing.
However, there are many causes of poverty. They are:
- Â Â Â Increasing population
- Â Â Â Increasing prices
- Â Â Â Shortage of capital
- Â Â Â Various social, political, and economic factors
- Â Â Â Regional poverty
- Â Â Â Provision for meagre necessities of the poor, etc.
Question 12
Explain self-employment.
Answer:
Being self-employed is a circumstance in which an individual works for himself instead of working for or under an employer that pays a wage or a salary. The chief cause of underemployment and unemployment is prevailing in developing nations like India. There are several types of self-employment business like partnership, limited ability, companies, sole proprietorship, and more.
Question 13
Define the poverty line.
Answer:
The poverty line is defined as that particular line that expresses per capita average monthly expenditure incurred by a few people to satisfy their minimum needs or requirements.
Question 14
________ is a cut-off point on the line of distribution that divides the population into the poor and non-poor.
a. Poverty cut-off
b. Poverty
c. Poverty line
d. Poverty distribution
Answer:
c. Poverty line
Question 15
The planning commission has defined the poverty line based on the recommended nutritional necessity of ______ calories per person per day for urban areas.
a. 3000
b. 2500
c. 3100
d. 2100
Answer:
d. 2100
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