IX E2 People as a Resource-II

Why is literacy rate low in the females?

• lack of equal education opportunities

• lack of infrastructure

• lack of transport facilities

• lack of income

Trade, transport and communication is an example of

• Primary Sector

• Secondary Sector

• Tertiary Sector

• Non Economic sector

_____________makes all other resources useful and puts them to productive use.

• Land

• Money

• Technology

• Human Resource

Education contributes towards

• Efficiency of government

• National Income

• Society

• All of above

When there is investment made in the form of education, training and medical care, the population becomes

• Working Capital

• Human Capital

• Fixed Capital

• National Capital

Construction is an activity of which sector?

• primary

• secondary

• tertiary

• non market

Market activity known as production for

• exchange

• earning income

• earning profit

• all the above

Investment in human capital (through education, training, medical care) is similar to investment in physical capital as_______

• a.Both results into higher income generation through increasing the productivity

• b.Both are undertaken by the employers/producers

• c.Both physical capital & human capital mean the same

Why human capital is superior to other resources like land and physical capital?

• a. Land and capital cannot become useful on its own

• b. Human resource can make use of land and capital

• c. Human beings are the most supreme creation of the God

• d. Both (a) & (b)

Countries like Japan are developed/rich because

• a. They have adequate or surplus natural resources

• b. The governments of such countries are rich

• c. They have invested on people, especially in the field of education and health.