NCERT Solutions for Class 11 Economics Chapter 4 Poverty

Q.1: In Sections 4.2 and 4.3, you will notice that the poor are identified not only with income and expenditure related indicators but also with many other items such as access to land, housing, education, health, sanitation. Also to be considered is discriminatory practices. Discuss how an alternative poverty line could be constructed in such a way that it includes all the other indicators.

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Q.2: On the basis of the given definition for poverty line, find out whether people who work as domestic help, dhobies and newspaper vendors etc. in your locality/neighbourhood are above the poverty line or not.

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Q.3: You may come across washermen and barbers in your neighbourhood. Spare a few moments and speak to a few of them. Collect details about what made them to take up this activity, where they live with their family members, number of meals they are able to consume in a day, whether they possess any physical assets and why they could not take up a job. Discuss the details that you have collected in the classroom.

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Q.4: List the activities of people in rural and urban areas separately. You may also list the activities of the non-poor. Compare the two and discuss in the classroom why the poor are unable to take up such activities

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Q.5: Discuss and then develop a list of three employment opportunities each that can arise in coastal areas, deserts, hilly tribal areas, tribal areas under : 
(i) Food for Work Programme and 
(ii) self-employment.

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