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Question 71 pts

Which of the following is identified in your text as a dimension of poverty?

Group of answer choices

Hunger.

Lack of access to roads, electricity, and other types of infrastructure.

Health problems.

All of the above.

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Question 81 pts

To lessen global inequality, your text recommends all of the following except:

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Education and family planning.

Reducing corruption.

Reducing aid from rich countries to poor countries.

Improving agriculture in poor countries.

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Question 91 pts

According to the case study in Chapter 4 of your text, the Green Revolution:

Group of answer choices

Helped to ease concerns about massive starvation by increasing crop yields.

Has had no negative environmental impacts.

Both A and B.

None of the above.

Answer 1

1) Poverty can be explained as a condition wherein a person is unable to get basic needs . There are a lot of dimensions to poverty measurement. It includes hunger, lack of education, basic infrastructure, health issues because hunger and poor diet also due to lack of hospital facilities.

Hence answer- (d) all of the above will be included under dimesions of poverty.

2) Ans - c) To lessen global inequality:

(a) Education and family planning in important. As education is an asset with high return which can help to refuce inequality. Also family planning is imporant as it is evident that countries with high population has huge gap betwern poor and rich, which is due to lack of family planning.

(b) Reducing corruption can actually help reduce inequality. The more the corruption is the less the poor get benifited as money goes into the hands of corrupted officials.

(c) Reducing aid from rich countries to poor countries can detee the situation and bring more inequality. Funds are more required by nation which are poor as poor nations have more inequality issues and fighting it needs more fund so as to allocate it to subsidise the poor. Thus it is the correct answer.

(d) Improving agriculture in poor countries can actually help poor countries to produce more. Often it is seen that poor people are engaged in agricultural activites. Thus boosting agricultual produce can help them earn better thus help in reducing inequality.

3) ans-a) Green revolution has helped to boost the agricultural products by using pesticides, chemicals, HYV Seeds, thus corp yeilds increased. Thus increase in yeild kf crops has helped to reduce starvation as more production led to more food thus helped to reducw food shortage.

Option (b) is wrong because , with the introduction of green revolution, the production increased drastically but it has impacted the soil and water quality. Soil loosed it fertileness and holding capacity. Also constant use of chemicals has resulted to lowering soil quality. These are due to the negative impacts of green revolution which has affectes the environment.