A. stayed the same around 1.5 billion people
B. rose from 1.5 billion people to 3 billion
C. fell form 1.5 billion people to 1 billion
D. rose from 1.5 billion people to 2.5 billion
Related Mcqs:
- The World Bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than_______________?
A. 1 dollar per day
B. 2 dollars per day
C. 3 dollar per day
D. None of these - Children living in poverty tend to be more likely______________?
A. to be killed in road accident
B. to have a diet consisting primarily of vegetables
C. to live in male-headed households
D. none of the above - The lower class is often considered to be living in_______________?
A. culture of poverty
B. Culture of lower class
C. Mere poverty
D. None of these - Which of these countries has the smallest proportion of people living on less than $1 a day_______________?
A. Bangladesh
B. Mozambique
C. China
D. Pakistan - What is defined as the dispersal of an ethnic population from an original homeland into foreign areas often in a forced manner ?
A. migration
B. globalization
C. colonialism
D. diaspora - The most extreme form of legalized social inequality for individuals or groups is ________________?
A. slavery
B. open class system
C. closed caste systems
D. caste systems - Extreme climatic conditions are_____________?
A. obstacle to cultural development
B. Helpful in cultural development
C. have no effect
D. None of these - In less developed countries this percentage is far less It is_____________?
A. 10%
B. 7.7%
C. 6.5%
D. None of these - Critics of the concept of relative poverty argue that______________?
A. it concentrates too much on kinship ties
B. the government should be raising benefit levels
C. in modern affluent societies no one is truly poor
D. it is wrong to make comparisons between countries - Median earnings are a better benchmark for poverty than mean earnings because____________?
A. the mean is distorted by a few people at the very top of the distribution
B. they lead more people to be defined as in poverty
C. the median is a more accurate measurement of earnings than the mean
D. all of the above
