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Three Words That Look Alike and Are Measured Nothing Alike
Poverty, unemployment and human development sit in the same paragraph of every general-studies syllabus, and candidates lose marks because the three blur into one idea. They should not. Each has its own formula, its own agency and its own committee history, and questions are built precisely on those differences.
Poverty asks: how many people fall below a consumption line? Unemployment asks: what share of the people who actually *want* work cannot find it? Human development asks: how long, how educated and how comfortable is a life — regardless of what average income says?
The good news is that the arithmetic is small. A head-count ratio, a rate and a geometric mean cover almost every numerical item, and the naming questions come from one short list of committees you can finish in a single evening.
1. The unemployment rate is calculated as the number of unemployed persons divided by:
2. The calorie norms used to define India's official poverty line are:
3. Disguised unemployment is best described as a situation in which:
4. The Human Development Index is computed as the:
5. Which committee's report on poverty estimation was never formally accepted by the Government of India?
6. NITI Aayog's National Multidimensional Poverty Index is built on:
7. A country has a population of 500 lakh, a labour force of 250 lakh, and 30 lakh unemployed persons. Its unemployment rate is:
8. The Human Development Report, which first introduced the HDI in 1990, is published by: