71st BPSC Prelims (2025), question 36

📈 Economy

  1. Which statement(s) about UNDP's Capability Poverty Measure (CPM) is/are correct?
    1. Includes child malnutrition.
    2. Includes female illiteracy.
    3. Considers male illiteracy as key.
    4. Includes lack of clean drinking water.

    1. 1 and 2
    2. 1, 2 and 3
    3. Only 1
    4. More than one of the above
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    Answer: D — More than one of the above

    CPM includes child malnutrition, female illiteracy AND lack of clean drinking water access (not male illiteracy) — so statements 1, 2 and 4 apply.

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