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History of Rural Development

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

It is a strategy to improve the economic and social life of people in rural areas, specifically the rural poor.

a)

Development Education

b)

Rural Development

c)

Urban Development

d)

Professional Development

2.

Since when that rural development established?

a)

1950's

b)

1960's

c)

1970's

d)

1980's

3.

What is the main focus of rural development?

a)

fishery productivity

b)

enhance farming

c)

increase rural income

d)

all of the above

4.

The following are the four components of the Project and the Global Environment Objectives, except one.

a)

focuses on local and national level planning

b)

infrastructure development

c)

enterprise development

d)

improving natural resources

5.

According to World Bank, the significant majority of the rural poor depend on _____________________ for most of their meager livelihoods.

a)

Information Communication Technology

b)

Health Services

c)

Agriculture

d)

Basketry

6.

According to NEDA, how many percent of the total population in the country belongs to the poverty line?

a)

57%

b)

67%

c)

77%

d)

87%

7.

It was mentioned in the State of the Nation Address, the president outlined a medium-term development plan anchored on the vision of "winning the war against poverty within the decade". Who is this president?

a)

Bongbong Marcos

b)

Cory Aquino

c)

Gloria Arroyo

d)

Joseph Estrada

8.

He was the president of the World Bank in 1973, wherein he defined rural development as a strategy designed to improve the economic and social life of a specific group.

a)

Mahatma Ghandi

b)

Michael Morris

c)

John Derek

d)

Robert McNamara

9.

High expectations of the promise of technology with a focus on technology transfer focused on a large scale, input-intensive agriculture based on packages of higher-yielding hybrids seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, mechanization, and post-harvest technologies which came to be known as the ____________.

a)

Use of land

b)

Green Revolution

c)

Most Urgent

d)

Red Velvet Revolution

10.

He is the President of the World Bank in 1997 wherein he aptly describes the global picture in his foreword:

  “Reducing poverty and ending hunger requires focused attention on the rural economy. Nearly three out of four of the world’s poor and hungry live in rural areas”.

a)

MacNamara

b)

James Wolfenson

c)

Renz Wolfenson

d)

Gloria Arroyo