POVERTY AND SHARED PROSPERITY 2022: CORRECTING COURSE

Question 1

RELEASED BY?

Answer 1

WORLD BANK

Question 2

global poverty reduction slowing down since?

Answer 2

2015

Question 3

Global goal of ending extreme extreme poverty?

Answer 3

by 2030

Question 4

global poverty monitoring began in?

Answer 4

1990

Question 5

no. of people living below extreme poverty line rose by?

Answer 5

70 million

Question 6

How many people will be still living on less than USD 2.15 a day ?

Answer 6

574 million
USD 2.15 a day in 2030

Question 7

Poverty estimation carried out by?

Answer 7

NITI AAYOG’s task force

Question 8

in 2020 alone, no. of people living below the extremely poverty line rose by?

Answer 8

70 million

Question 9

global median iincome declined by?

Answer 9

4 percent(2020)

Question 10

last estimate by?

Answer 10

SINHA ROY
VAN DER WEIDE(2022)

Question 11

First systematic assessment of poverty in iNDIA

Answer 11

VN DANDEKAR AND N RANTH COMMITTEE 1971

undr NSS data

Question 12

Task force constituted by the Planning Commission under the chairmanship of ____, constructed a poverty line for rural and urban areas on the basis of nutritional requirements and related consumption expenditure.

Answer 12

YK Alagh Committee 1979

Question 13

Task Force chaired by ____, based on the assumption that the basket of goods and services used to calculate Consumer Price Index-Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) and Consumer Price Index- Agricultural Labourers (CPI-AL) reflect the consumption patterns of the poor

Answer 13

DT LAKDAWALA ,1993

Question 14

C RANGARAJAN

Answer 14

2014

was formed to review poverty measurement methodology

dismissed Tendulkar’s committee report

Question 15

Poverty estimation in India is now carried out by NITI Aayog’s task force through the calculation of poverty line based on the data captured by the ____ under the _____

Answer 15

National Sample Survey Office , Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI)

DV SADANANDA GOWDA&raquo_space; MINISTER OF MOSPI

Question 16

The proportion of the population below the poverty line is called the

Answer 16

headcount ratio (HCR)

Question 17

The basket of goods and services necessary to satisfy basic human needs is the

Answer 17

Poverty Line Basket (PLB)

Question 18

Who made the earliest estimation of poverty line?

Answer 18

Dadabhai Naoroji through his book, “Poverty and Unbritish Rule in India”

Question 19

the ____ was set up by (?) under the chairmanship of [?] for the purpose of drawing up an economic plan with the fundamental aim to ensure an adequate standard of living for the masses.

Answer 19

National Planning Committee , Subhash Chandra Bose , Jawaharlal Nehru

Question 20

____ was a set of a proposal of a small group of influential business leaders in Bombay for the development of the post-independence economy of India.

Answer 20

The Bombay Plan(1944)

Question 21

The World Bank defines a person as extremely poor if she is living on less than

Answer 21

1.90 international dollars a day

Question 22

Asian Development Bank too has its own poverty line which is currently at

Answer 22

$ 1.51 per person per day