Answer to Question #285120 in Economics for Sorie

Question

Chose the best answer to each question?

23. If Total Poverty Gap is $5,000, the number of persons whose income fall below the poverty line is 200, and the size of population is 1,000, then what is the Average Poverty Gap? 

 (a) $5       (b) $250      (c) $1 million     (d) $10 

 

24. Which of the following is included into the computation of both Gender Development Index(GDI) and Gender Inequality Index(GII)? 

(a) women’s educational attainment   (b) women’s life expectancy at birth

 (c) women’s participation in the workforce (d) women’s income per person  

 

25. Which of the following can have a value bigger than 1? 

(a) Gender Inequality Index         (b) MPI

(c) Gini coefficient             (d) Normalized Poverty Gap

(e) Gender Development Index

Answer 1

23. APG = 5000/1000 = $5.

So, the correct answer is (a).

24. Women’s educational attainment is included into the computation of both Gender Development Index(GDI) and Gender Inequality Index(GII).

So, the correct answer is (a).

25. Normalized Poverty Gap can have a value bigger than 1. So, the correct answer is (d).