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(a) First Five Year Plan of ________________ commenced in the year 1956. (Pakistan/China)
(b) Maternal mortality rate is high in _____________. (China/Pakistan)
(c) Proportion of people below poverty line is more in __________. (India/Pakistan)
(d) Reforms in ______________ were introduced in 1978. (China/Pakistan)

Compare and contrast the development of India, China and Pakistan with respect to some salient human development indicators.

How is RBI controlling the commercial banks?

Explain the steps taken by the government in developing rural markets.

What are the functions of the environment?

Distinguish between the following

(i) Strategic and Minority sale
(ii) Bilateral and Multi-lateral trade
(iii) Tariff and Non-tariff barriers.

Why was the public sector given a leading role in industrial development during the planning period?

Match the following:

Infrastructure contributes to the economic development of a country. Do you agree? Explain.

Find the odd man out (i) owner of a saloon (ii) a cobbler (iii) a cashier in Mother Dairy (iv) a tuition master (v) transport operator (vi) construction worker.

Highlight any two serious adverse environmental consequences of development in India. India’s environmental problems pose a dichotomy — they are poverty induced and, at the same time, due to affluence in living standards — is this true?

What programmes has the government adopted to help the elderly people and poor and destitute women?

Differentiate the six systems of Indian medicine.

Highlight the salient features of India’s pre-independence occupational structure.

Are the following workers — a beggar, a thief, a smuggler, a gambler? Why?

Trace the relationship between human capital and economic growth.

Explain the term ‘infrastructure’.

Find the odd man out (i) owner of a saloon (ii) a cobbler (iii) a cashier in Mother Dairy (iv) a tuition master (v) transport operator (vi) construction worker.

Discuss the reforms which have been initiated recently to meet the energy crisis in India.

Why was the public sector given a leading role in industrial development during the planning period?

Why were reforms introduced in India?