Poverty — Economics STD 12 Commerce — Question

The unemployment which is caused by the introduction of new machinery, improvement of production techniques, labour saving devices, etc is called:

1. Frictional unemployment.
2. Casual unemployment.
3. Structural unemployment.
4. Technological unemployment.

Number of persons employed:

1. Will be high if labour participation rate is high.
2. Will be high if population is more.
3. Will be high if there is less gender inequality.
4. All of the above.

Objectives of privatisation policy are:

1. To improve the government's financial position.
2. To improve the performance of an enterprise.
3. To reduce the burden on public administration.
4. All the above.

Which of the following method is used to measure income inequalities?

1. Gini Co-efficient.
2. HDI
3. Both of these.
4. None of these.

A good indicator of growth is steady increase in the:

1. Gross Domestic Product.
2. Net Domestic Product.
3. Population.
4. National Income.

Write the correct sequence of alternatives given in Column II by matching them with respective terms in Column I:

Column I	Column II
(a) Growth	(i) Adoption of new technology to increase the production of goods and services.
(b) Modernisation	(ii) Avoiding imports of those goods which could be produced in India itself.
(c) Self-reliance	(iii) Every Indian should be able to meet his/her basic needs such as food, a decent house, education and health, and inequality in the distribution of wealth should be reduced.
(d) Equity	(iv) Increase in the country’s capacity to produce the output of goods and services within the country.

The first railways in India was operated between which of following two stations?

1. Delhi and Bombay.
2. Bombay and Kolkata.
3. Bombay and Thane.
4. Bombay and Pune.

SHG stands for:

1. Self Help Group.
2. Social Help Group.
3. Society's Help Group.
4. Social Housing Group.

China has the ______ largest GDP.

1. First.
2. Second.
3. Third.
4. Fourth.

Which of the following is an indicator of education attainments?

1. Gross enrollment ratio.
2. Literacy rate.
3. Drop-out ratio.
4. All of the above.