According to the Human Development Report 2003, about how many countries were poorer in 2003 than in 1990?
Correct answer A. 50
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What does Amartya Sen’s welfare theory rest on?
Correct answer A. Individuals’ capabilities
On which diagram are income inequalities often displayed?
Correct answer A. Lorenz curve
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How is the elasticity of pro-poor growth defined?
Correct answer A. The percentage increase in the consumption growth of the poor divided by percentage increase in the consumption growth of the nonpoor
Which institution uses peer borrowing groups of about five people with joint liability, who approve loans to other members in place of the bank’s own screening?
Correct answer C. Bangladesh's Grameen Bank
What is the period of rapid population growth called that lies between a pre-industrial stable population with high birth and death rates and a modern stable population with low fertility and mortality?
Correct answer C. Demographic transition
For most of human history, at roughly what annual rate did the population grow?
Correct answer D. 0.002%
Which of the following is NOT a likely cost of high fertility and rapid population growth?
Correct answer D. Increasing returns to natural resources with a direct impact on average food consumption
Roughly what proportion of the world’s population lives in less developed countries (LDCs)?
Correct answer C. 80%
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What was Malthus’s theory about population?
Correct answer D. Increased geometrically, outstripping food supply which grew arithmetically
In 2000, roughly what share of the world’s population lived in China and India combined?
Correct answer C. 40%
Family planning programmes, together with demand for birth control driven by urbanisation, modernisation, development and more education, have contributed to what?
Correct answer C. A decline in fertility
Which statement about Julian Simon’s view of technological change is correct?
Correct answer B. He assumed the classical view of technological change
Which of the following are prototype international agricultural research centres: I. CIMMYT (maize and wheat), II. IRRI (rice), III. Synthetic Rubber Research Institute, IV. Center for International Agricultural Production Control?
Correct answer A. I and II only
What is the aim of integrated pest management (IPM)?
Correct answer B. Reduce yield losses by pests while minimizing the negative effects of pest control
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What is the ratio of the non-working population (under 15 and over 64) to the working-age population called?
Correct answer C. Dependency ratio
A population is described as stationary when its growth rate is what?
Correct answer A. Zero
Who wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population?
Correct answer B. Thomas Robert Malthus
Julian Simon’s model is consistent with which population policy?
Correct answer C. A laissez-faire population policy
What name is given to the development of high-yielding varieties (HYVs) of wheat and rice?
Correct answer C. The Green Revolution