Question Bank: DEVELOPMENT

Define GDP and explain its significance in measuring economic development.

Discuss the role of credit in promoting development in a country.

How does the production of goods and services contribute to the GDP of a nation?

Analyze the impact of labor laws on companies and their operations.

Explain the concept of disguised unemployment with examples from urban and rural areas.

What are the developmental goals that can be set for a village or town?

How can employment be increased in urban areas?

Discuss the importance of the tertiary sector in the development of the Indian economy.

Why do banks hesitate to lend to small farmers, and what are the alternative sources of credit for them?

How can small farmers access cheap credit for cultivation?

Evaluate the significance of the RTI Act in addressing civic issues and complaints.

Compare the GDP shares of primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors in 2000 and 2013.

Create a bar diagram representing the GDP data for the three sectors in 2000 and 2013.

Draw conclusions from the bar graph representing the GDP data.

Discuss the interlinking of production in the context of car manufacturing by Ford Motors in India.

Reflect on the developmental goals for an area with high-rise buildings surrounded by slums.

Analyze the statement, 'The Earth has enough resources to meet the needs of all but not enough to satisfy the greed of even one person,' in relation to development.

Do you agree that the tertiary sector does not play a significant role in the development of the Indian economy? Justify your answer.

What are the criteria used for classifying students into primary and secondary categories? Do you think this classification is useful?

How can consumers fulfill their duties when visiting a shopping complex in their locality?

Investigate the opposition to the setting up of SEZs in India and the reasons behind it.

Propose ways to increase employment opportunities in urban areas.

Discuss the impact of terms of credit on small farmers with examples.

Suggest ways for small farmers to access favorable credit terms for cultivation.

How can the concepts of development and economic growth be applied to real-life problems and situations?

Match the Developmental Goals of different categories of persons

Why do different persons have different notions of development? Which of the following explanations is more important and why?

Do the following two statements mean the same? Justify your answer. (a) People have different developmental goals. (b) People have conflicting developmental goals.

Give some examples where factors other than income are important aspects of our lives.

Explain some of the important ideas of the above section in your own words.

Look at the picture on the right. What should be the developmental goals for such an area?

Read this newspaper report and answer the questions that follow: A vessel dumped 500 tonnes of liquid toxic wastes into open-air dumps in a city and in the surrounding sea. This happened in a city called Abidjan in Ivory Coast, a country in Africa. The fumes from the highly toxic waste caused nausea, skin rashes, fainting, diarrhoea etc. After a month seven persons were dead, twenty in hospital and twenty six thousand treated for symptoms of poisoning. A multinational company dealing in petroleum and metals had contracted a local company of the Ivory Coast to dispose the toxic waste from its ship. Who are the people who benefited and who did not?

Read this newspaper report and answer the questions that follow: A vessel dumped 500 tonnes of liquid toxic wastes into open-air dumps in a city and in the surrounding sea. This happened in a city called Abidjan in Ivory Coast, a country in Africa. The fumes from the highly toxic waste caused nausea, skin rashes, fainting, diarrhoea etc. After a month seven persons were dead, twenty in hospital and twenty six thousand treated for symptoms of poisoning. A multinational company dealing in petroleum and metals had contracted a local company of the Ivory Coast to dispose the toxic waste from its ship. What should be the developmental goal for this country?

What can be some of the developmental goals for your village, town or locality?

Based on data given in Table 1.2, calculate the average income for both the countries.

Will you be equally happy to live in both these countries? Are both equally developed?

Give three examples where an average is used for comparing situations

Why do you think average income is an important criterion for development? Explain.

Besides size of per capita income, what other property of income is important in comparing two or more societies?

Suppose records show that the average income in a country has been increasing over a period of time. From this, can we conclude that all sections of the economy have become better? Illustrate your answer with an example.

Write a paragraph on your notion of what should India do, or achieve, to become a developed country.

Study Table given carefully and fill in the blanks in the following paragraphs. For this, you may need to make calculations based on the table. a) The literacy rate for all age groups, including young and old, is {{ }} for rural males and {{ }} for rural females. However, it is not just that these many adults could not attend school but that there are {{ }} who are currently not in school. b)It is clear from the table that {{ }} % of rural girls and {{ }} % of rural boys are not attending school. Therefore, illiteracy among children in the age group 10-14 is as high as {{ }} % for rural females and {{ }} % for rural males. c)This high level of illiteracy among {{ }} age group, even after more than 70 years of our independence, is most disturbing. In many other states also we are nowhere near realisation of the constitutional goal of free and compulsory education for all children up to the age of 14, which was expected to be achieved by 1960.

Development of a country can generally be determined by

Which of the following neighbouring countries has better performance in terms of human development than India?

Assume there are four families in a country. The average per capita income of these families is Rs 5000. If the income of three families is Rs 4000, Rs 7000 and Rs 3000 respectively, what is the income of the fourth family?