ECONOMICS

CHAPTER – 2 (People as Resource)

QUESTION BANK

1. Why are domestic services of house women not treated as economic activities?
2. Are the following activities economic or non-economic activities? Give reasons.
a. Vilas sells fish in the village market. (b) Vilas cooks food for his family. (c) Sakal works in a private firm. (d) Sakal looks after
his younger brother and sister.
3. Differentiate between Market Activities and Non-Market Activities
4. Differentiate between voluntary and involuntary unemployment. Give an example.
5. Discuss the factors responsible for the distribution of population in India.
6. Why is human resource the most important resource? What steps can be taken to improve the quality of
human resource? How does an improved quality of human resource help in establishing a virtuous cycle?
7. How does unemployment have a detrimental impact on the overall growth of an economy?
8. What is unemployment? Explain two types of rural unemployment?
9. What is Infant Mortality Rate? Why infant mortality rate is decreasing?
10. Explain in detail the disadvantages of unemployment?
11. Give three measures taken by government to improve literacy condition in India.
12. Suggest any three ways to transform population load into an asset.
LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (5 MARKS)
1. How the investment in Human Capital can be of immense importance for a society as a whole? State any
four advantages.
2. Is it necessary to check population growth? Fast population growth is considered as one of the major
3. Explain steps taken by the Government to solve the problem of unemployment in India.
4. What are the strategies that the government has undertaken to reduce unemployment?
5. Describe in brief the role of human resources in economic development.
6. What factors compel the rural people to migrate to cities?
7. What is an economic activity? What are various activities undertaken in the primary sector, secondary
sector and tertiary sector?
HOTS
1. What is the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan? What are its objectives?
2. Define human resource. When does a human resource become human capital?
3. Distinguish between labour force and work force.
4. What the nature of unemployment is as found in India?
5. ‘Unemployment is an economic as well as a social evil.’ Explain the statement.
6. What are the two types of economic activity? State two characteristics of each.
Value based questions
1. How are children of educated parents different from those of uneducated parents? Give three points of
difference.
2. Why did Japan emerge as a developed country inspite of its poor natural resource?
3. Suggest five steps to remove unemployment from the society?
4. What do you think about new economic policies help in economic development?
5. What are the main hurdles in development of the country?