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.Management Sciences
Category: Population And Development
The total fertility rate (TFR) is ?
A. The total number of children born in a country in given year a divided by labor force
B. The number of children born to the average woman during her reproductive years.
C. The number of births in a country divided by total population in a given year.
D. The number of woman age 15-45 in a country divided by total population
The major segment of “Saraiki” speaking population lives in ?
A. Punjab
B. K.P.K
C. Azad Kashmir
D. Sindh
Organized family-planning programs and the demand for birth control resulting from urbanization, modernization, economic development and increased education have contributed to ?
A. a decline in fertility
B. The demographic transition from stage 3 to stage 2
C. increases in the ratio of labor to capital
D. an increase in the dependency ratio
Malthus’s theory was that population ?
A. increased proportionally to economic growth
B. increased geometrically, outstripping food supply which grew arithmetically
C. increased stagnantly with food supply and economic development
D. increased disproportionately surpassing agricultural production
The goal of integrated pest management (IPT) is to?
A. reduce yield losses by pests while minimizing the negative effects of pest control
B. have year-round plantings of a single crop
C. undertake monoculture pest planning
D. encompass biological control through fertilizers
Economics in India Pakistan the Philippines and Mexico argue the foodgrain growth would not have kept up with population growth in the last four decades without ?
I- improved packages of high-yielding seed varieties
II- fertilizers, pesticides and irrigation
III- improved transportation
IV better extension service
A. I and III only
B. II and III only
C. I, II and III only
D. I, II, III and IV
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