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Economics Worksheet 1 Development

Short Answer Questions


Q.1. What are the various social indicators of development?

Q.2. How are economic development and human development related to each other?
Answer.

Q.3.What is the main concern with regard to sustainable development?


Answer.

Q.4. What is environment degradation? Give a few examples?

Q.5. Mention in brief the factors which are important goals in our life.

Q.6. Why do we use averages? Are there any limitations to their use? Illustrate with your
own examples related to development.

7. Kerala, with lower per capita income has a better human development ranking than
Haryana. Hence, per capita income is not a useful criterion at all and should not be used to
compare states. Do you agree? Discuss.

8. Find out the present sources of energy that are used by the people in India. What could
be the other possibilities fifty years from now?

9. Why is the issue of sustainability important for development?

10. “The Earth has enough resources to meet the needs of all but not enough to satisfy the
greed of even one person”. How is this statement relevant to the discussion of
development? Discuss.

11. List a few examples of environmental degradation that you may have observed around
you.
Long Answer Questions
Q 1. Why do we use averages? Are there any limitations to their use? Illustrate with
your own example related to development.

Q 2. List a few examples of environmental degradation that you may have observed
around you.

Q 3. Differentiate between renewable and non-renewable energy resources. Find out


the present resources of energy in India.

Q 4. (a) What does Human Development Index (HDI) indicate?


(b) By whom HDI is prepared?
Q 5. “Money cannot buy all the goods and services that one needs to live well.” Explain.

Q 6. Mention any three characteristics of Development.

Q 7. Explain the two basic tools used to compare an underdeveloped country with a
developed country?

Q 8. How does the National Development of a country depend on the availability of


public facilities?

Q 9. Why do different individuals have different and at times conflicting goals for
development?

Q 10. “The Earth has enough for everyone’s needs but not for everyone’s greed.”
Explain the need for sustainable development in the context of the above statement.

Extra Questions
Q.1. On the basis of the given table answer the following questions:

(a) Calculate the average income of country A and B.


(b) Are both the countries equally developed?
(c) Which country is better and why?

Q.2. In what respect is the criterion used by UNDP for measuring development different
from the one used by the World Bank?

Q.3. Why are public facilities needed for the development of the country? Explain any four
public facilities.

Q.4. What are the two basic criteria used for comparing an underdeveloped country with a
developed one?

Q.5. What do you mean by Human Development Index? What are its three components?

Q.6. Why is sustainability important for development? Give two suggestions to achieve the
sustainability of development.

Q.7. How does World Bank classify different countries? Is it an adequate indicator?
Q.8. What is development? What are the two aspects of development?

Q.9. Why are countries of the Middle East not called ‘developed’ in spite of high per capita
income?

Q.10. Explain the concepts of Human Development Index (HDI) and that of the per capita
income.

Q.11. Answer the following questions on the basis of the table given below:
State Infant Mortality Rate (2003) Literacy Rate (%) (2001)

(a) Which state has the largest literacy rate?


(b) Which state has the lowest Infant Mortality Rate?
(c) Identify the state which has the greatest Human Development Index (HDI)?

Q.12. What is the main criterion used by the World Bank in classifying different countries?
Write the limitations of this criterion.

Q.13. Study the table given below and answer the following questions. Country Per Capita
income in US $ (2004) HDI Rank in the World

(a) Name anyone country whose Per Capita Income is more than that of India and by how
much?
(b) What is the HDI Rank of India in the World?

Q.14. Study the table given below and answer the following questions.

(a) Which state has the lowest per capita income and why?
(b) Which state has the highest per capita income and why?
Q.15. How can more jobs be created in the field of education? Give any three reasons.

Q.16. Mention any three characteristics of development.

Q.17. ‘For development people look at a mix of goals.’ Support the statement with suitable
examples.

Q.18. Why Kerala has a better human development ranking than Punjab in spite of lower
per capita income?

Previous Year Questions


Short Anser Type Questions
Q.1. Mention any one limitation of Per Capita Income as an indicator of
development. [CBSE 2016-17]

Q.2. What is the most appropriate basis for measuring the development of a
country? [CBSE 2016-17]

Long Answer Type Questions


Q.1. On what basis are the developmental goals determined by different people? Give
one example to prove that development for one may cause harm to others. [CBSE
2016-17]
OR
Explain common, different, and conflicting goals by giving suitable examples. [CBSE
2016-17]
OR
“Development for one may be destruction for the other.” Give one example to support
the statement. [CBSE 2016-17]
OR
Define Development. With the help of an example show how two groups may have
different notions of development. [CBSE 2016-17]

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