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Consider the following statements:
1. Growth is a qualitative change where as that of value is neutral.
2. It may have a positive or a negative sign.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/ are correct?
Consider the following statements:
1. Development means a qualitative change which is always value positive.
2. Positive growth does not always lead to development.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/ are correct?
Consider the following statements:
1. Bangladesh\’s economist Dr. Mahbub-ul-Haq created the Human Development Index in 1990.
2. His concept of human development resulted in Human Development Report annually since 1990.
3. The Human Development Report is published by World Health Organisation annually.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/ are incorrect?
Consider the following statements:
1. Amartya Sen saw an increase in freedom as the main objective of growth.
2. His work explores the role of social and political institutions and processes in increasing freedom.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/ are correct?
Consider the following statements:
1. The access to resources, health and education are the key areas in human development.
2. Equity, sustainability, productivity and empowerment are the concepts of human development.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/ are correct?
Consider the following statements:
1. Equity – making equal access to opportunities available to everybody.
2. Sustainability – continuity in the availability of opportunities.
3. Empowerment -productivity in terms of human work.
Which of the above concepts are correct with respect to human development?
Consider the following :
1. Income approach
2. Capabilities approach
3. Minimum needs approach
4. Expenditure approach
Which of the above are the approaches of human development?
Consider the following statements with respect to Human Development Index (HDI):
1. It ranks the countries in the key areas of health, education and access to resources.
2. These rankings are based on a score between 0 to 1.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/ are correct?
Consider the following statements with respect to Human Development Index (HDI):
Areas: Indicator
1. Health: life expectancy at birth
2. Education: adult literacy rate and the gross enrolment ratio
3. Access to resources: purchasing power
Which of the above is/are matched correctly?
Consider the following statements with respect to Human Development Index (HDI):
1. Each dimensions of HDI is given a weightage of 1/6.
2. The closer a score is to one, the greater is the level of human development.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/ are correct?
Consider the following statements:
1. Minimum needs approach is associated with Prof. Amartya Sen.
2. Building human capabilities approach was initially proposed by the International Labour Organisation.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/ are correct?
Consider the following statements:
1. Health
2. Employment
3. Food
4. Sanitation
5. Housing
Which of the above are the minimum basic needs proposed by the International Labour Organisation (ILO)?
Consider the following statements:
1. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) publishes the Human Development Report every year.
2. Human Development Index and the Human Poverty Index are important indices to measure human development used by the UNDP.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/ are correct?
Consider the following statements:
1. The human poverty index measures the shortfall in human development.
2. It estimates on various dimensions of income measure.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/ are correct?
Consider the following statements:
1. The Human Poverty Index is related to the Human Development Index.
2. The Human Poverty Index is more revealing than the Human Development Index.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/ are correct?
Consider the following statements about Gross National Happiness (GNH):
1. Bhutan and Nepal are the only countries in the world to officially proclaim GNH as the measure of the country’s progress.
2. GNH is instituted as the goal of the government of Bhutan in the Constitution of Bhutan.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/ are correct?
Consider the following statements:
1. Size of the territory and per capita income are directly related to human development.
2. India ranks higher than Sri Lanka and Trinidad and Tobago in Human Development Index.
3. Kerala performs much better than Punjab and Gujarat in human development.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/ are incorrect?
Consider the following statements:
1. These countries form the largest group.
2. Most of these are countries which have emerged in the period after the Second World War.
3. Some countries from this group were former colonies or part of erstwhile Soviet Union in 1990.
The above mentioned characteristics are classified in human development in countries with
Consider the following statements:
1. Pattern of government expenditure on social sector
2. Political environment
3. Freedom of people
Which of the above factors influence the levels of human development in a country?