Poor people face health problems, including widespread illnesses such as malaria and tuberculosis, as well as moderately common but serious conditions such as:

• A) Cough
• B) Fever
• C) HIV/AIDS
• D) Heat wave

The first goal of Millennium Development Goal is:

• A) Reduce child mortality
• B) Ensure environmental sustainability
• C) Improve maternal health
• D) Eradicate extreme poverty

Which people are exposed to a wide array of risks that make them vulnerable to income shocks and losses of well-being?

• A) Poor
• B) Vulnerable
• C) Deprived
• D) Non-poor

Which strategy entails the removal of institutional and policy induced biases against the poor?

• A) Pro trade
• B) Pro industry
• C) Pro-poor growth
• D) Pro-rich growth

Poverty reduction strategies are considered to be successful if after implementation, average:

• A) Investment rise
• B) Consumption rise
• C) Income rise
• D) Trade rise

According to whom poverty is as consisting of a “deprivation of capabilities”?

• A) Peter Townsend
• B) Amartya Sen
• C) John Travolta
• D) David Gordon

The World Bank measures poverty line on the basis of:

• A) Lira
• B) Dollar
• C) Paisa
• D) Pound Sterling

At the level of individual households, a lack of material opportunities is:

• A) Direct cause of poverty
• B) Variable cause of poverty
• C) Not a cause of poverty
• D) Indirect cause of poverty

Which country issued its “National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty 2005–2010”?

• A) South Africa
• B) Zimbabwe
• C) Tanzania
• D) Pakistan

What allow citizens to express their opinions on the performance and quality of government services?

• A) Citizen identity card
• B) Citizen report card
• C) Ration card
• D) Citizen passport card

Which of the following is constructed from Household Budget Surveys (HBS)?

• A) Standard measures of poverty
• B) Standard measures of income
• C) Standard measures of deprivation
• D) Standard measures of causality

Who have addressed the problem of pro-poor growth directly, in a paper entitled “Growth is Good for the Poor”?

• A) Nicola Acocella and Zoltan Acs
• B) Edith Abbott and Daron Acemoglu
• C) Henry Carter Adams and Walter Adams
• D) David Dollar and Aart Kraay

What are designed to extract information on corruption from households, the private sector, and public officials?

• A) Public expenditure tracking surveys
• B) Private enterprise survey
• C) World Bank corruption surveys
• D) Social log books

What includes indicators such as male and female shares of parliamentary seats, managerial positions, and earned income?

• A) Growth enterprise market
• B) Gateway to educational materials
• C) Inclusive investment
• D) Gender empowerment measure

Household survey data understates:

• A) Income
• B) Inequality
• C) Investment
• D) Vulnerability

In the process of poverty measurement, to measure the household data, the World Bank use:

• A) Lorenz curve
• B) Poverty curve
• C) Geopolitical map
• D) GINI curve

Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) mainly focuses on:

• A) Ethical inequality
• B) Gender inequality
• C) Gender discrimination
• D) Gender empowerment

What is helpful in generating sustainable growth and expanding opportunity for the poor?

• A) Social environment
• B) Good governance
• C) Well-functioning market
• D) Neutral analysis

National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty 2005–2010 of Tanzania known more commonly by its Swahili acronym MKUKUTA is divided into ---- main clusters.

• A) 3
• B) 4
• C) 2
• D) 5

The government of Tanzania focused on three development problems; ignorance, disease, and:

• A) Vulnerability
• B) Poverty
• C) Corruption
• D) Inequality