{"id":121359,"date":"2021-08-28T08:01:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T08:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=121359"},"modified":"2021-08-28T08:01:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T08:01:30","slug":"key-indicators-for-asia-and-the-pacific-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/key-indicators-for-asia-and-the-pacific-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : ADB has recently(August 2021) released the 52nd edition of \u201cKey Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2021\u201d. Accordingly, which of the following statement is correct ?<br>Statements &#8212;<br>1 Number of people living in extreme poverty fell to 203 million in 2017<br>2 Prevalence of undernourishment decreased to 316 million in 2019<br>3 In 2019, Asia and the Pacific accounted for 35% of global GDP<br>Options &#8212;<br><\/strong>a. Only 1.<br>b. Only 2.<br>c. Only 3.<br>d. All of the above<br><strong>Ans. d.<br>Related facts &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ADB has recently(August 2021) released the 52nd edition of \u201cKey Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2021\u201d.<\/li><li>Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2021 presents a practical framework to measure the digital economy, rooted in input-output analysis and using readily available national accounts data.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Key points &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Across developing Asia, the number of people living in extreme poverty fell from 1.2 billion in 1999 to 203 million in 2017.<\/li><li>The prevalence of undernourishment decreased from more than 521 million people in 2001 to 316 million in 2019.<\/li><li>Among reporting economies, completion rates for primary education have increased by 8 to 11 percentage points, on average, since 2000.<\/li><li>The region\u2019s impressive economic growth has contributed to these gains.<\/li><li>In 2019, Asia and the Pacific accounted for 35% of global gross domestic product (in current U.S. dollars)\u2014exceeding the share of Europe and North America.<\/li><li>While progress before the pandemic varied across developing member economies, the pandemic has further widened these differences.<\/li><li>In more than one-third of reporting economies, unemployment rates increased by at least 20% in 2020, relative to estimates recorded a year earlier, and this contributed to Asia and the Pacific losing about 8% of working hours.<\/li><li>By the end of the year, three in every four reporting economies posted declines in GDP.<\/li><li>The pandemic has pushed about 75 million to 80 million people into extreme poverty, compared with a scenario without COVID-19.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adb.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.adb.org<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adb.org\/sites\/default\/files\/publication\/720461\/ki2021.pd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.adb.org\/sites\/default\/files\/publication\/720461\/ki2021.pd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : ADB has recently(August 2021) released the 52nd edition of \u201cKey Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2021\u201d. Accordingly, which of the following statement is correct ?Statements &#8212;1 Number of people living in extreme poverty fell to 203 million in 20172 Prevalence of undernourishment decreased to 316 million in 20193 In 2019, Asia and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":121360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-121359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121361,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121359\/revisions\/121361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}