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The document contains questions from three chapters about economics topics: people as a resource, poverty as a challenge, and food security in India. The chapters contain questions about types of unemployment, human capital formation, defining and measuring poverty, government anti-poverty programs, the role of the Food Corporation of India, and India's Public Distribution System for ensuring food security.

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Economics Question Bank

The document contains questions from three chapters about economics topics: people as a resource, poverty as a challenge, and food security in India. The chapters contain questions about types of unemployment, human capital formation, defining and measuring poverty, government anti-poverty programs, the role of the Food Corporation of India, and India's Public Distribution System for ensuring food security.

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QUESTION BANK

ECONOMICS
CHAPTER-2 PEOPLE AS RESOURCE
1. What do you understand by ‘people as a resource’?
2. Name the two types of unemployment existing in the rural areas.
Write any four factors responsible for these.
3. How is human resource different from other resources like land and
physical capital?
4. Why are women employed in low paid work?
5. What is the role of education and health in human capital formation?
6. What is the difference between economic and non-economic
activities and disguised and seasonal unemployment.
7. Why is educated unemployment a peculiar problem in India?
8. Which would you consider the best---land, labour. Physical capital
and human capital? Why?
CHAPTER-3 POVERTY AS A CHALLENGE
1. What are the dimensions of poverty?
2. What are the social indicators of poverty as seen by the social
scientists?
3. What is a poverty line? How is poverty line determined in India?
4. Give an account of Interstate disparities of poverty in India. What
steps have been taken by the different state to bring down poverty in
their states?
5. Describe the current government strategy to remove poverty from
India.
6. Describe in short, the various anti-poverty programmes started by
the government.
CHAPTER-4 FOOD SECURITY IN INDIA
1. What are the major function of the Food Corporation of India?
2. Why is there a need for food security in India?
3. What is Public Distribution System? State three advantages of the
system?
4. How does PDS ensure food security in India? Explain
5. Who are the food insecure people?
6. What efforts has the government made to provide food security to the
people? Explain any four efforts.
7. What is buffer stock and why is it created by the government?
8. Describe the main advantages and dis advantages of the Public
Distribution System.
9. What are the problems of the functioning of the ration shops? Write a
note on the role of cooperatives in providing food and related items

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