Development Class 10 Important Questions
Very Short Answer Questions (VSA) 1 Mark
Question 1. Define the term National Income?
Question 2. Define GDP.
Question 3. What is the main criterion used by the World Bank in classifying different countries?
Question 4. Why is the total income of countries not used to make comparisons between them?
Question 5. Literacy rate measures the proportion of literate population in which age group?
Question 6. Which state of India has the lowest infant mortality rate?
Question 7. What is Human Development Index?
Question 8. Name the report published by UNDP which compares countries based on the
educational levels of the people, their health status and per capita income.
Question 9. What term is used to describe the ‘average number of years a person is expected to
live at birth’?
Question 10. What is the advantage of per capita income? Mention any one.
Question 11. What do final goods and services mean?
Question 12.
Why is sustainable development essential? Give one reason.
Question 13. Why is per capita income of different countries calculated in dollars and not in
their own currencies by the World Bank?
Question 14. “What may be development for one may not be development for the other.” Explain
with a suitable example.
Question 15. What is meant by sustainability of development?
Question 16. Define:
Infant mortality rate
Literacy rate
Net attendance ratio
BMI
Question 17. Literacy rate measures the proportion of literate population in which age group?
Short Answer Questions (SA) 3 Marks
Question 18. Why do we use averages? Are there any limitations to their use? Illustrate with your
own examples related to development.
Question 19. What is per capita income? Mention any two limitations of per capita income as an
indicator of development.
Question 20. Kerala, with lower per capita income, has a better human development ranking
than Punjab. Hence, per capita income is not a useful criterion at all and should not be used to
compare States. Do you agree? Discuss.
Question 21. On the basis of which three indicators of HDI 2004 Sri Lanka has better rank than
India?
Question 22. ‘Conflicting goals can also be developmental goals’. Elaborate with examples.
Question 23. What are common developmental goals? Give any two suitable examples of
common developmental goals.
Question 24. “Money cannot buy all the goods and services that one needs to live well” Do you
agree with this statement? Justify your answer with any three suitable arguments.
Question 25. Apart from income, which other six things people look for as important aspects of
our lives?
Question 26. One what basis the rich and low income countries have been categorized in the
world? What are the limitations of this approach? According to the World Development Report,
2006, India comes in which category? Give reason for the same.
Question 27. Why do people look at a mix of goals for development? Explain.
Long Answer Questions (LA) 5 Marks
Question 28. Why do different persons have different notions of development? Which of the
following explanations is more important and why?
(a) Because people are different.
(b) Because life situations of persons are different.
Question 29. What does HDI stand for? Explain the main criteria of measuring HDI according to
UNDP Report of 1990.
Question 30. Explain with examples that there are other important development goals also
besides income.
Question 31. Explain any five fields other than income where development is needed.
Question 32. Explain with reasons why state of Punjab with a very high per capita income has a
low literacy rate.