A. benefits are reduced at such a high rate when recipients earn more income that there is little or no incentive to work once one is receiving benefits.
B. in order to be eligible for benefits a recipient cannot have a job
C. they make recipients more comfortable than most middle-class citizens.
D. anti-poverty programs attract naturally lazy people to begin with.
Related Mcqs:
- The Human Development Report 2003, which assumes that poverty is multidimensional calculates a human poverty index based on which of the following measures of deprivation ?
I- probability at birth of not surviving to age 40
II- adult illiteracy rate
III- negative economic growth
IV- lack of a decent standard of livingA. I and II only
B. III and IV only
C. I, II and III only
D. I, II and IV - The poverty trap refers to ?
A. a situation in which those receiving state benefits may be almost no better off if they choose to work more to earn more income for themselves and their families because doing so will mean they have to pay back the benefits they have previously received
B. a situation in which workers are unable to find jobs.
C. a situation in which those receiving state benefits may be almost no better off if they choose to work more to earn more because doing so will reduce the amount of benefit income to which they are entitled and increase the amount to tax
D. a situation in which those receiving state benefits are discriminated against by employers and so find it more difficult to find jobs. - In Pakistan the term the poverty trap is used to describe the fact that ?
A. poor people are excluded from most leisure and social activities
B. the Pakistan benefit system makes being poor vary degrading
C. if poor people earn more their benefits fall, making them no better off.
D. in the Pakistan poor people are heavily taxed - Term the minimum income level below which a person is considered to be living in poverty ?
A. Poverty level
B. Poverty line
C. Both of them
D. None of them - Which of the following country did Not suffer from increased poverty from debt and financial crises in the 1990s ?
A. Singapore (1994)
B. Mexico (1994)
C. Russia (1998)
D. Brazil (1998) - Countries such as ________ that failed to adjust to a persistent external disequilibrium were more vulnerable to poverty displacement and even war ?
A. Japan and Korea
B. Brazil and Argentina
C. Algeria and Yugoslavia
D. Singapore and Malaysia - In 2003, the UN Development Program estimated that a 1-percent LDC per capita consumption growth, with income inequality unchanging, would reduce the poverty percentage by _________ percent yearly?
A. 0
B. 2
C. 6
D. 0.5 - The idea that suggests that poverty is self-perpetuating because poor nations are unable to save and invest enough to accumulate the capital stock that would help them grow is ?
A. the vicious circle of poverty hypothesis
B. the dependency theory
C. neo-colonialism
D. the under-consumptionist hypothesis - Annual GNP growth of 6% poverty reduced by 1% point of the population Balance of payments deficit not in excess of $200 million For a planner, the above are ?
A. achieved only through socialism
B. target variables
C. bound by soft budget
D. recurrent expenditures - Planning in many LDCs has failed because detailed programs for the public sector have not been worked out and ?
A. governments depend primarily on their colonial masters
B. excessive controls are used in the private sector
C. the brain drains cost government substantially
D. monopolies dominate in the agricultural sector
