DEVELOPMENT
Exercise1. Development of a country can generally be determined by.
(a) its per capita income
(b) its average literacy level
(c) health status of its people
(d) all of the above
Answer:
(d) all of the above
Answer:
(d) all of the above
2. Which of the following neighbouring countries has better performance in terms of human development in India?
(a) Bangladesh
(b) Sri Lanka
(c) Nepal
(d) Pakistan
Answer:
(b) Sri Lanka
3. Assume there are four families in country. The average per capita income of this family is Rs 5000. If the income of three family is Rs 4000, Rs 7000 and Rs 3000 respectively, what is the income of the fourth family.
(a) Rs 7500
(b)Rs 3000
(c)Rs 2000
(d)Rs 6000
Answer:
(d)Rs 6000
4. What is the mean criterion used by the World Bank in classifying different countries. What are the limitation of this criterion, if any?
Answer:-
The mean criterion used by the World Bank in classifying different countries, is the per capita income or average income of a person in country.
limitation of this criteria.
It does not tell us about how its average income is among the people in the individual countries.
5. In what respect is the criterion used by the UNDP for measuring development different from the one used by the World Bank?
Answer:
The criterion used by the UNDP for measuring development is different from the one used by the world bank in the sense that it uses a combination of factors such as health education and income as indicators of development if done not rely solely on per capita income as, is the case with World Bank.
6. Why do we use averages? Are there any limitation to their use? Illustrate with your own example related to development.
Answer:
We use average because they are useful for comparing different quantities of the same category. For example, to compute, per capita income of country. Average have to be used because their differences in the income of divers people, and there are limitation to use their average.
7. Kerala, with lower per capita income has better human Development ranking then Haryana. Hence, per capita income is not a useful criteria at all and should not be used to compare state. Do you agree? Discuss.
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8. Find out the present source of energy that are used by the people in India. What could be the other possibilities fifty years from now?
9. Why is the issue of sustainability important for development?
Answer:
Sustainability development is the key to the stable growth of economy. It means that you should take place without damaging the environment, development in present should not compromise with needs of future generation.
10."the earth has enough resource to meet the needs of all but not enough to satisfy the greed of even one people". How is this statement relevant to the discussion of development? Discuss.
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11. List few example of environmental degradation that you may have observed around you.
Answer:
✓. Water pollution
✓. Soil erosion
✓. Decreased level of air quality
✓. Falling level of groundwater
✓. Deforestation.
12. For each of the items given in table 1.6, find out which country is at the top and which is at the bottom.
Answer:-
- Per capita income in U$$: top country - Sri Lanka; bottom country- Myanmar
- Life expectancy at birth : top country- Sri Lanka ; botton country- Myanmar.
- Literacy rate for 15 + year population : top country- Sri Lanka ; bottom country- Bangladesh
- Gross Enrolment ratio from three levels: top country- Sri Lanka; bottom country- Pakistan.
- HDI rank in the world: top country-Sri Lanka ; bottom country - Nepal.