Poverty, Unemployment & Development Questions with Solutions

This topic covers the problems of the Indian economy and how they are measured: poverty and the poverty line, committees on poverty estimation, types of unemployment, human development indices, and the programmes designed to tackle poverty and unemployment. Questions often ask which committee estimated poverty (such as the Lakdawala, Tendulkar and Rangarajan committees), what disguised and seasonal unemployment mean, and which organisation publishes the Human Development Index (UNDP). Rankings and indices change every year, so check the latest reports for those questions. Practise the poverty, unemployment and development questions below, written in the style of the general awareness sections of exams such as SSC, banking, railways, CUET GAT, MAH CET and CLAT. Each question comes with a detailed explanation that adds related facts, so every question helps you revise more than one point.