Read the passage and answer the given questions from 46 to 50. The war on…
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Read the passage and answer the given questions from 46 to 50.
The war on poverty earlier was intertwined with the population problem. Statements and positions regarding population began to proliferate. In many instances, a crude form of empiricism was followed. It made Malthusian views and prescriptions inevitable. This is despite the experts making serious attempts to conceptualise the effect of demographic factors on development models and theories were formulated seeking to relate various variables and to provide a basis for policy and programme formulation. As the experience of the West suggested, it was hoped that population growth rates would begin to fall as the countries developed. But as many warned, countries could not wait for this process to occur. They should speed up the reduction of population growth by more direct means. To be sure, this preoccupation with population had existed for several decades, especially in relation to Asia. It was a central topic in discussion on race and racism. But the scale and form that the discussion took were new. The discussions held in academic circle or in the ambit of the nascent international organisations also had a new tone. They focussed on topics such as relationship between economic growth and population control. They also discussed topics such as demographic experience of rich countries and its possible impact on poor nations. Now the need is a new view of population, with new scientific and technological instruments to manage it.
Models relating to different variables of demography formed the basis of
Answer: D. Development policy formulation — CONCEPTLiteral comprehension identifies the relationship explicitly stated in a passage. The task is to connect the key noun in the question to the purpose…
- A.
Population distribution
- B.
Attempts to create new population concepts
- C.
Effects on poverty elimination
- D.
Development policy formulation
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Correct answer: D
CONCEPT
Literal comprehension identifies the relationship explicitly stated in a passage. The task is to connect the key noun in the question to the purpose assigned to it in the source sentence, without adding an outside interpretation.
APPLICATION
The passage says that models and theories were formulated to relate different variables and to provide a basis for policy and programme formulation. The question refers to those demographic-variable models, so their stated purpose maps directly to development policy formulation.
CROSS-CHECK / CONTRAST
Population distribution describes the spatial spread of people, not the stated purpose of the models.
Attempts to create new population concepts refer to the later call for a new view and new tools, not what the earlier models formed a basis for.
Effects on poverty elimination belong to the passage’s opening context, not the completion of the model-building statement.
Therefore, the models formed the basis of development policy formulation.