Welcome to your Poverty as a Challenge (Quiz)
1. How does vulnerability to poverty differ from social exclusion?
2. What is the primary reason Lakha Singh started earning at a young age?
3. What does ‘poverty line’ primarily measure?
4. Which city does Ram Saran work near as a daily-wage labourer?
5. Which historical factor contributed to widespread poverty in India?
6. What is one key factor expected to help in poverty reduction over the next 10-15 years
7. Which region has the largest concentration of poor people globally?
8. Which programme aims to organize poor families into self-help groups to bring them above the poverty line?
9. Which sector created job opportunities due to the Green Revolution?
10. What contributed to poverty reduction in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu?
11. Which economic group faces the highest poverty ratio in India?
12. Who stated that India would be truly independent when its poorest people become free of suffering?
13. What does "human poverty" encompass that the traditional poverty definition does not?
14. Why have land reforms in rural areas failed to reduce poverty significantly?
15. Why does the official definition of poverty fall short, according to scholars?
16. Which states have traditionally succeeded in reducing poverty through high agricultural growth rates?
17. Under the Rural Employment Generation Programme (REGP), which year was it launched?
18. In which state was the poverty ratio the highest as per the 2011 Census?
19. Which social group is most vulnerable to poverty in India?
20. Which states had poverty levels above the all-India Head Count Ratio (HCR) in 2011-12?
21. What is the aim of the Prime Minister Rozgar Yojana (PMRY), started in 1993?
22. Which government program guarantees 100 days of wage employment to rural households?
23. What is the main objective of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005?
24. What is the purpose of the Public Distribution System (PDS)?
25. How does caste-based exclusion illustrate social exclusion?
26. Which of the following best describes 'vulnerability to poverty'?
27. What was the primary result of the colonial government’s policies on Indian industries?
28. What is the international poverty line defined by the World Bank?
29. Why does social exclusion cause more damage than low income?
30. Which of the following is an indicator used by social scientists to measure poverty?