Poverty, Inequality & Unemployment Frameworks Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

What trend describes an increasing share of workers being engaged on a casual, temporary or contractual basis rather than in regular, salaried employment, raising concerns about job security even where overall employment figures appear stable?

Question 2

What reform enables National Food Security Act beneficiaries, discussed elsewhere in this pack, to access their entitled food grains from any fair price shop across the country, rather than being tied to a single fixed location?

Question 3

Bringing together the discussion of poverty concepts and measurement from across this entire pack, what role does this material play in relation to the rest of this quiz?

Question 4

What general term refers to the generally higher average income and consumption levels typically observed in India's urban areas compared with its rural areas, closely related to but conceptually distinct from the rural-urban poverty divide discussed in an earlier pack?

Question 5

What proportion of India's workforce is generally estimated to still be engaged in informal employment, lacking the job security and social security protections generally associated with formal-sector work discussed in an earlier pack?

Question 6

Which committee, submitting its report in 2009, recommended a shift away from the calorie-based norm toward a poverty line based more broadly on monthly per capita consumption expenditure covering food, health, education and other essentials?

Question 7

Recalling an earlier pack's discussion of the World Bank's international poverty threshold, what specific figure, expressed in dollars a day at 2017 purchasing power parity, is used to periodically assess India's own progress in reducing extreme poverty?

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About Poverty, Inequality & Unemployment Frameworks

This quiz is meant for students preparing for the IAS examination and other competitive tests, and for anyone who wants a thorough, well-rounded understanding of poverty, inequality and unemployment in India. It begins with how poverty is defined and measured -- the poverty line, the Lakdawala, Tendulkar and Rangarajan committees, and indices such as the Multidimensional Poverty Index. A second pack covers the government schemes designed to actually reduce poverty -- MGNREGA, PMAY, the National Rural Livelihood Mission, the Public Distribution System and the National Food Security Act. A third pack surveys how inequality itself is measured -- the Gini coefficient, the Lorenz curve, the Palma ratio and recent findings on India's own income and wealth concentration. A fourth pack covers the different types of unemployment and how India measures them through the Periodic Labour Force Survey. A fifth pack covers employment generation schemes, the four Labour Codes and social security measures for organised and unorganised workers alike. It closes with recent data, global indices and a synthesis tying poverty, inequality and unemployment together. When complete it will have one hundred and twenty carefully checked questions, arranged in six packs of twenty.

Every question has four options, and the correct option can be in any position. After each question there is a detailed explanation of more than five lines, in simple Indian English that a school student can follow, giving the important names, figures and the points that examiners like to test.

Every fact has been checked against standard reference material on India's poverty, inequality and employment framework, current as of this quiz's preparation.