Class - 9 Social Science

Poverty

1. What is poverty?
2. Write any two indicators of poverty.
3. What is mass poverty?
4. What is BPL?  OR What is Poverty Line?
5. Write the name of any two poverty and unemployment programmes which have been initiated by the government to remove poverty and unemployment in rural areas.
6. How is the poverty line estimated periodically?
7. Name an organisation which is responsible for estimating poverty.
8. Define Poverty with context to World Bank. Name any four countries which have high percentage of population living below poverty.
9. 'The current anti-poverty strategy of the government is based broadly on two planks'. Name any two planks. Name any two planks.
10. Name the act through which a poor person can get a 100 days assured employment.