NCERT Solutions for Chapter: Development, Exercise 10: EXERCISES

Development of a country can generally be determined by

Which of the following neighbouring countries has better performance in terms of human development than India?

Assume there are four families in a country. The average per capita income of these families is Rs $5000$. If the income of three families is Rs $4000$, Rs $7000$ and Rs $3000$, respectively, what is the income of the fourth family?

Find out the present sources of energy that are used by the people in India. What could be the other possibilities fifty years from now?

Why is the issue of sustainability important for development?

"The Earth has enough resources to meet the needs of all but not to satisfy the greed of even one person". How is this statement relevant to the concept of development? Discuss.

List a few examples of environmental degradation.

For each of the items given in the Table below, find out which country is at the top and which is at the bottom.

Source: Human Development Report, $2018$, United Nations Development Programme, New York

NOTES

1. HDI stands for Human Development Index. Ranks in the above table are out of $189$ countries in all.

2. Life Expectancy at birth denotes, as the name suggests, the average expected length of life of a person at the time of birth.

3. Per Capita Income (PCI) is calculated in dollars for all countries so that it can be compared. It is also done in a way so that every dollar would buy the same amount of goods and services in any country.