WorksheetsHistory of Rural Development
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 4mins
It is a strategy to improve the economic and social life of people in rural areas, specifically the rural poor.
Development Education
Rural Development
Urban Development
Professional Development
Since when that rural development established?
1950's
1960's
1970's
1980's
What is the main focus of rural development?
fishery productivity
enhance farming
increase rural income
all of the above
The following are the four components of the Project and the Global Environment Objectives, except one.
focuses on local and national level planning
infrastructure development
enterprise development
improving natural resources
According to World Bank, the significant majority of the rural poor depend on _____________________ for most of their meager livelihoods.
Information Communication Technology
Health Services
Agriculture
Basketry
According to NEDA, how many percent of the total population in the country belongs to the poverty line?
57%
67%
77%
87%
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?
Bongbong Marcos
Cory Aquino
Gloria Arroyo
Joseph Estrada
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.
Mahatma Ghandi
Michael Morris
John Derek
Robert McNamara
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 ____________.
Use of land
Green Revolution
Most Urgent
Red Velvet Revolution
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”.
MacNamara
James Wolfenson
Renz Wolfenson
Gloria Arroyo
