A. in a county
B. between countries
C. for a decade
D. None of these
Poverty in Pakistan
The World Bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than……………?
A. 1 dollar per day
B. 2 dollars per day
C. 3 dollar per day
D. None of these
In developed countries the official definition of poverty used for statistical purposes is based on………….?
A. Absolute poverty
B. Relative poverty
C. both a and b
D. None of these
In 50s and 60s the national affairs of the country were controlled by………….?
A. Industrialist
B. Feudal
C. Intelligentsia
D. None of these
Murray though that the underclass consisted of people who…………..?
A. formed an inferior race with low levels of intelligence
B. lived morally unsound lives of crime and squalor
C. were too reliant upon welfare benefits
D. all of the above
The term assets refers to……………?
A. the culturally valued commodities and standards of living that make the poor feel relatively deprived
B. the flow of money a person receives from their salary or wage
C. a stock of economic resources including land shares and bank deposits
D. the slices of the population who own differing amounts of wealth
Critics of the concept of relative poverty argue that……………?
A. it concentrates too much on kinship ties
B. the government should be raising benefit levels
C. in modern affluent societies no one is truly poor
D. it is wrong to make comparisons between countries
Which of these ethnic groups has the greatest proportion of its members in the bottom income quintile ?
A. Whites
B. Indians
C. Black Caribbean
D. Pakistan /Bangladeshis
Which of these constitute the three worlds of welfare capitalism ?
A. social democratic socialist communist
B. social democratic corporatist liberal
C. social democratic Christian-democratic nationalist
D. none of above
Dependency theorists from low-income countries drew the ideas………..?
A. Walt Rostow
B. Karl Marx
C. Immanuel Wallerstein
D. Bretton Woods