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.Management Sciences
Category: Poverty,Social,Exclusion and Welfare
Median earnings are a better benchmark for poverty than mean earnings because____________?
A. the mean is distorted by a few people at the very top of the distribution
B. they lead more people to be defined as in poverty
C. the median is a more accurate measurement of earnings than the mean
D. all of the above
Which of these constitute the three worlds of welfare-capitalism ?
A. social democratic socialist communist
B. social democratic corporatist liberal
C. social democratic Christian-democratic nationalist
D. none of the above
The notion of citizenship rights is associated with______________?
A. T.H Huxley
B. A.H Halsey
C. T.H Marshall
D. E.H Carr
Which of these ethnic groups has the greatest proportion of households below 60 per cent of median income ?
A. Whites
B. Indians
C. Black Caribbean’s
D. Bangladeshis
Which of these is not an example of social exclusion ?
A. tax avoidance
B. gated communities
C. homelessness
D. none of these
Extreme poverty is often defined as living on less than US$1 per day how has extreme poverty changed between 1981 and 2004 ?
A. stayed the same around 1.5 billion people
B. rose from 1.5 billion people to 3 billion
C. fell form 1.5 billion people to 1 billion
D. rose from 1.5 billion people to 2.5 billion
Social exclusion refers to ways in which people are cut off from full involvement in society How has Veit-Wilson (1998) distinguished the main variants of this concept ?
A. primary/secondary
B. weak/strong
C. general/specific
D. old/new
Critics of the concept of relative poverty argue that______________?
A. it concentrates too much on kinship ties
B. the government should be raising benefit levels
C. in modern affluent societies no one is truly poor
D. it is wrong to make comparisons between countries
Put these stages in the evolution of citizenship in chronological order _____________?
A. civil rights political citizenship social citizenship environmental citizenship
B. social citizenship political citizenship environmental citizenship civil rights
C. political citizenship social citizenship environmental citizenship civil rights
D. civil rights environmental citizenship social citizenship political citizenship
Children living in poverty tend to be more likely______________?
A. to be killed in road accident
B. to have a diet consisting primarily of vegetables
C. to live in male-headed households
D. none of the above
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