New Approaches to Alleviation

Q.

Which of the following do you think is a lasting solution to poverty?

1. Gainful Employment

2. Direct Benefit Transfers

3. Government Social Spending

4. None of these

Q.

To alleviate poverty, the government can either target GDP growth or increase spending in social sectors. State true or false.

1. True

2. False

Q.

Which of the following programs is not related to improvement of the food and nutritional status of the poor?

1. PDS

2. MNREGA
   

3. ICDS
   

4. Mid-day meal scheme

Q.

Which of the following is not a major deficiency of Poverty Alleviation Programs (PAPs) in India?

1. High level of unemployment

2. Poor resource allocation
   

3. The non-poor has appropriated benefits of PAPs

4. Inefficient utilization of resources
   

Q.

Which of the following prevents growth from converging to development?

1. Unemployment

2. Equity
   

3. Poverty

4. Wealth

Q. Universal Basic Income refers to the idea where every individual is assured .

1. minimum income
2. minimum consumption
3. wage employment
4. subsidy transfers

Q. The idea of passing on the equivalent amount of the subsidy to the people is called .

1. UBI
2. DBT
3. ICDS
4. NFSA

Q. The government must allocate greater funds for the eradication of poverty.

1. False
2. True

Q. People just above the poverty line do not require any special attention through alleviation programmes.

1. False
2. True

Q. Local level participation is not necessary for effective poverty alleviation programmes.

1. False
2. True