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
Related Mcqs:
- 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. - 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 Liquidity Trap condition occurs at a_______________?
A. Low rate of interest
B. Very low rate of interest
C. High rate of interest
D. Very high rate of interest - The liquidity trap occurs when the demand for money ?
A. Is perfectly interest elastic
B. Is perfectly interest inelastic
C. Means that an increase in money supply leads to a fall in the interest rate
D. Means that an increases in the money supply leads to an increases in the interest rate - 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 - Mention the name for that urban and rural region which is closely associated economically with an adjoining town or city. Term is also used to describe the area that is serviced by a port or coastal settlement ?
A. Hinterland
B. Country land
C. Dependent land
D. Parasite land - The term Fourth World has been coined to describe ?
A. the newly industrialized countries like Korea, Taiwan Malaysia
B. The republics of the former Soviet Union
C. Countries that still have a communist government like China and Cuba
D. countries that have fallen far behind the economic advances of the rest of the world - The term Fourth World has been coined to describe ?
A. the newly industrialized countries like Korea, Taiwan Malaysia
B. The republics of the former Soviet Union
C. Countries that still have a communist government like China and Cuba
D. countries that have fallen far behind the economic advances of the rest of the world - Current anti-poverty programs discourage work because ?
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. - 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
