Development class- X

 

Class X

Chapter 1: Development

1. Which is the most important attribute for comparing the development between countries?
2. What is the average income of a nation called?
3. Why does Kerala have low infant mortality rate?
4. ‘Different persons have different development goals.’ Explain.
5. Different persons may have conflicting developmental goals.’ Explain.
6. Give some examples where factors other than income are important aspects of our lives.
7. Why do you think average income is an important criterion for development?
8. In what respect is the criterion used by UNDP for measuring development different from the one used by the World Bank?
9. Why do we use averages? What are the limitations to their use?
10. Why is the issue of sustainability important for development?
11. Revise all the terms and definitions as well as the questions given at the back of the chapter.

SECTORS OF THE INDIAN ECONOMY

        

Economics Assignment

Chapter 2: Sectors of the Indian Economy

1. How can the Indian economy be classified 

• Ownership
• Nature of organisation
• Types of economic activities (primary, secondary & tertiary)

1. Define the term

• NSSO (national sample survey organization) It is the organization under the ministry of statistics of the government.It surveys the employment and unemployment of the workers.
• NSO National Statistical Office 
• Why do you think MGNREGA 2005 is referred to as ‘Right to work’?
• MGNREGA Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or MGNREGA in 2009, is an Indian labour law that aims to guarantee the 'right to work'.
• TISCO tata iron and steel company limited
• RIL reliance industries limited
• Define the following in detail 
• Primary sector
• Secondary sector
• Tertiary sector/service sector

1. Define the term GDP. 
2. Explain the historical change in the proportion of workers in the three sectors of the economy.
3. Explain the rising importance of the tertiary sector in production. (Important question)(max. 5 points)
4. Name the sector which is the largest employing sector. (Primary sector)
5. Name the sector which has the most significant proportion of incoming GDP. (Tertiary sector)
6. What does the history of developed countries indicate about the shifts that have taken place between sectors?
7. Compare and contrast the changes in India with the pattern that was observed for developed countries. What kind of changes between sectors were desired but did not happen in India?
8. Why would you consider Kerala a more      Developed state than Haryana inspite a lower per capita income?
9. What do you understand by the term Underemployment
10. What do you understand by the term Disguised unemployment
11. What do you understand by the term Casual worker
12. How can more employment be created in rural areas? (5marks)
13. Explain the characteristics of the organised sector
14. Explain the characteristics of the Unorganised sector
15. Who are the vulnerable people who need protection in the Rural areas
16. Who are the vulnerable people who need protection in the Urban areasWhy is government intervention needed in various sectors?
17. Why are public services run by the government only ?
18. In what respects is the criteria used by the UNDP for measuring development different from one used by the World Bank?
19. Explain the definition of the Service Sector.. How would income and employment increase if farmers were provided with irrigation and marketing facilities?
20. State a reason why intermediate goods are not considered in the value of final goods.
21. For each of the sectors that we came across in this chapter why should one focus on employment and GDP? Could there be other issues which should be examined? Discuss.
22.  Distinguish between open unemployment and disguised unemployment.
23. “Tertiary sector is not playing any significant role in the development of the Indian economy.” Do you agree? Give reasons in support of your answer.
24. Justify the statement that “Income and employment will increase if farmers are provided irrigation and marketing facilities”.
25. Workers are exploited in the unorganised sector. Do you agree with this view? Give reasons in support of your answer.
26. Give a few examples of public sector activities and explain why the government has taken them up.
27. Explain how public sector contributes to the economic development of a nation
28. “The problem of underemployment is not confined only to agriculture”. Support the statement with examples.
29. Explain any three ways to solve the problem of underemployment.

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DEVELOPMENTAL GOALS OF DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF PERSONS CAN BE DIFFERENT DISCUSS

•  Landless rural labourers
•  Prosperous farmers from Punjab Farmers who depend only on rain for growing crops
• A rural woman from a land owning family 

• Urban unemployed youth 
• A boy from a rich urban family 
• A girl from a rich urban family 
• An adivasi from Narmada valley

1. What is development?
2. Different persons can have different developmental goals, Discuss
3. What may be development for one may not be development for the other. It may even be destructive for the other, Discuss
4.  For development, people look at a mix of goals
5. Give some examples where factors other than income are important aspects of our lives.
6. Money in your pocket cannot buy all the goods and services that you may need to live well. 
7. What is average income? What is another name of average income?
8. In World Development Reports, brought out by the World Bank, What criterion is used in classifying countries. Discuss.
9. Define -
10. Infant Mortality Rate (or IMR) indicates the number of children that die before the age of one year as a proportion of 1000 live children born in that particular year. 
11. Literacy Rate measures the proportion of literate population in the 7-and-above age group. 
12. Net Attendance Ratio is the total number of children of age group 14 and 15 years attending school as a percentage of total number of children in the same age group.
13. What is the main criterion used by the World Bank in classifying different countries? What are the limitations of this criterion, if any? 
14. In what respects is the criterion used by the UNDP for measuring development different from the one used by the World Bank? 
15.  Why do we use averages? Are there any limitations to their use? Illustrate with your own examples related to development. 
16. Kerala, with lower per capita income has a better human development ranking than Haryana. Hence, per capita income is not a useful criterion at all and should not be used to compare states. Do you agree? Discuss.
17.  Why is the issue of sustainability important for development? 
18. “The Earth has enough resources to meet the needs of all but not enough to satisfy the greed of even one person”. How is this statement relevant to the disscusion of development? Discuss. 
19. List a few examples of environmental degradation that you may have observed around you. 
20. What is BMI ? What is  HDI ? What are its 3 perimeters?
21. What is sustainable development?

SECTORS OF THE INDIAN ECONOMY X Q

 SECTORS OF THE INDIAN ECONOMY

1. How can Indian economy be classified in the basis of:-

• Ownership
• Nature of organisation
• Types of economic activities (primary, secondary & tertiary)
• Define the term
• NSSO (national sample survey organization) It is the organization under the ministry of statistics of the government.It surveys the employment and unemployment of the workers.
• NSO National Statistical Office 
• MGNREGA Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or MGNREGA in 2009, is an Indian labour law that aims to guarantee the 'right to work'.
• TISCO tata iron and steel company limited
• RIL reliance industries limited

Q. Define the following in detail 

• Primary sector
• Secondary sector
• Tertiary sector/service sector

Q. Define the term GDP. 

Q. Explain the historical change in the proportion of workers in the three sectors of the economy.

Q. Explain the rising importance of tertiary sector in production. (Important question)(max. 5 points)

Q. Name the sector which is the largest employing sector. (Primary sector)

Q. Name the sector which has the largest proportion of incoming GDP. (Tertiary sector) 

Q. What do you understand by the term 

•  Underemployment
• Disguised unemployment
• Casual worker

Q. How can more employment be created in rural areas? (5marks)

Q. Explain the characteristics of the organised sector / Unorganised sector

Q. Who are the vulnerable people who need protection in the Rural areas/ Urban areas

Q. Why is government intervention needed in various sectors?

Q. Why are public services run by the government only ?

We are subservient of economics, a poem by Reginold Ajay Jacob, India

We are subservient of economics

a poem by Reginold Ajay Jacob, India

We are subservient of economics,

It's economics that divides us into parts,

The difference may not be visible,

They are present deep within our heart,

Though we try to conceal them to the utmost,

Though we try it with all our power,

The distance is just unbridgeable,

Its furrows are on our hearts.

Poor sighs because of disparities,

There are unfulfilled dreams in his hearts,

Which all his lifetime earnings,

Can't simply ever impart.

He weeps sighs and weeps alone,

Covering his poverty as shame,

This world of capitalist doing,

Who can the labourer blame?

Hiding his poverty the greatest sin,

He turns hollow from shore to shore and,

To cover that hollowness,

He has words and words in store.

He tries for a way out,

Yet he simply doth fail,

In front of capitalism,

No labourer prevails.

note: I wrote this poem in 1992.