planning economic development & five year plans section 5 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Question : 11

First Plan adopted

a) Mahalanobis model

b) Lewis-Fei model

c) Keynesian model

d) Harrod Domar model

Question : 12

Which one of the following states was having the highest Human Development Index in the year 2012?

a) Uttar Pradesh

b) Kerala

c) Assam

d) Madhya Pradesh

Question : 13

When the productive capacity of the economic systems of a state is inadequate to create sufficient number of jobs, it is called

a) structural unemployment

b) seasonal unemployment

c) cyclical unemployment

d) disguised unemployment

Question : 14 [UPPCS (Mains) 2004]

‘The Rolling Plan’ for backward countries was suggested by

a) A. Samuelson

b) G. Myrdal

c) R. Nurkse

d) W.A. Lewis

Question : 15

Consider the following statements :

1. PURA model of the economic model was advocated by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
2. PURA model of economic development is mainly aimed to bridge the gap between the rural-urban divide.

a) 2 only

b) Both 1 and 2

c) 1 only

d) Neither 1 nor 2