What was South Africa’s system of enforced racial segregation called?
Correct answer B. Apartheid
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What does the first phase of the demographic transition show?
Correct answer A. High birth rate and high death rate in its first phase
Absolute poverty is a fixed standard that stays consistent over time and across what?
Correct answer C. Between countries
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The World Bank has defined extreme poverty as living on less than what amount?
Correct answer B. 1 dollar per day
In developed countries, what is the official statistical definition of poverty based on?
Correct answer A. Relative poverty
Who controlled Pakistan’s national affairs in the 1950s and 1960s?
Correct answer B. Feudal
Who did Charles Murray believe made up the underclass?
Correct answer D. All of the above
What does the term ‘assets’ refer to?
Correct answer D. A stock of economic resources, including land, shares and bank deposits
Which ethnic group has the largest share of its members in the bottom income quintile?
Correct answer B. Pakistanis/Bangladeshis
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Whose ideas did dependency theorists from low-income countries draw upon?
Correct answer A. Karl Marx
What is the standard daily food intake for an adult male?
Correct answer A. 2000-2500 calories
According to the World Bank, where will the larger share of the world’s poor be living by 2030?
Correct answer A. Africa
When middle classes become the main beneficiaries of social benefits and services intended for the poor, what is this called?
Correct answer C. Matthew effect
What is the absolute poverty line meant to show?
Correct answer C. The estimated minimum level of income needed for subsistence
What does the functionalist theory of inequality propose?
Correct answer C. High rewards and incentives ensure that the most skilled individuals will take the most important social positions
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What does the term ‘feminisation of poverty’ refer to?
Correct answer A. Women's increased chances of being in poverty due to low pay and greater welfare dependency
Extreme poverty is often defined as living on less than US$1 a day. How did the number of people in extreme poverty change between 1981 and 2004?
Correct answer B. Fell from 1.5 billion people to 1 billion
Social exclusion describes how people are cut off from full involvement in society. How did Veit-Wilson (1998) distinguish its main versions?
Correct answer A. Weak/strong
What do critics of the concept of relative poverty argue?
Correct answer D. In modern affluent societies no one is truly poor
Children who live in poverty are more likely to do what?
Correct answer A. To be killed in a road accident