Chapter MCQ Test 2 — Development Experience of India and Its Neighbours
10 Questions • 12 min • Chapter MCQ
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Question 1 of 10
China's big head start in growth is largely explained by the fact that it began market reforms:
Earliest, in 1978
Latest, in 1991
Never
In 1947
Explanation: Reforming a full 13 years before India gave China an early and decisive growth advantage.
Question 2 of 10
A key structural difference is that China created mass employment through manufacturing while India's services-led growth was relatively:
Less job-creating for the masses
More job-creating
Agricultural
Colonial
Explanation: High-skill services generated fewer jobs for the large unskilled workforce than China's factories did.
Question 3 of 10
Despite slower population growth, China still has a large population because the one-child policy:
Slowed but did not reverse an already huge base
Increased births
Was never enforced
Applied only to cities
Explanation: A lower growth rate on an enormous existing population still leaves China among the world's most populous.
Question 4 of 10
That China leads on the HDI shows that high growth translates into human development only when paired with investment in:
Health and education
Defence alone
Imports
Tourism
Explanation: China combined fast growth with strong social investment, lifting life expectancy, schooling and incomes.
Question 5 of 10
India generally edges ahead of Pakistan on several indicators, but both remain challenged by:
Poverty and gaps in health, education and sanitation
Too much wealth
Over-education
No population
Explanation: Both still face widespread poverty and shortfalls in basic human-development services.
Question 6 of 10
The comparison suggests India's top priority should be to combine fast growth with:
More jobs and heavy investment in people
Less education
Closing the economy
Ending all industry
Explanation: Job-rich growth plus investment in health, education and skills would convert growth into inclusive development.
Question 7 of 10
All three countries started as poor, agricultural economies, which shows that differences today come mainly from their:
Choices of strategy and timing of reform
Starting wealth
Climate only
Language
Explanation: Similar starting points but different outcomes highlight the decisive role of policy choices and reform timing.
Question 8 of 10
China shifting workers from agriculture into factories illustrates the development process of:
Structural change toward manufacturing
De-industrialisation
Drain of wealth
Colonial trade
Explanation: Moving labour from low-productivity farming to manufacturing is classic growth-promoting structural change.
Question 9 of 10
India's large young population can become an engine of growth only if the country provides:
Education, health, skills and jobs
No schooling
Fewer hospitals
Less investment
Explanation: Realising the demographic dividend needs a skilled, healthy, employed youth — otherwise it becomes a burden.
Question 10 of 10
The deepest lesson of Class 12 Economics, this chapter concludes, is that the real goal of economics is:
A better life for all the people, not just bigger numbers
Maximum pollution
Only GDP
Only exports
Explanation: From scarcity to development, economics ultimately aims to improve human well-being for everyone.