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June 7, 2025, 11:35 AM - 4 min read
India’s extreme poverty rate has fallen sharply from 27.1% in 2011-12 to 5.3% in 2022-23, lifting 269 million people above the poverty line, according to the World Bank. The decline has been broad-based, covering both rural and urban areas across major Indian states.
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April 26, 2025, 02:13 PM - 5 min read
India has lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty between 2011–12 and 2022–23, the World Bank has said, citing a dramatic drop in both rural and urban poverty rates. However, wage inequality, informal employment, and concerns over data comparability continue to cast a shadow on India’s poverty alleviation success story.
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July 1, 2024, 03:57 PM - 2 min read
The report quotes NITI Aayog, stating that in the past decade, India has seen a significant reduction in poverty. The proportion of people living in poverty in "all its dimensions" decreased to 14.96% in 2019-21 from 24.85% in 2015-16. This reduction is attributed to sustained economic growth during the period (6.7% average growth between FY16-FY20) and the implementation of various welfare schemes focused on nutrition, health, education, housing, drinking water, sanitation, skill development, and social protection.
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June 19, 2024, 07:33 PM - 2 min read
“We still do not have an official poverty line after the Tendulkar [Committee] and the multidimensional poverty index is not quite a poverty line. Should we now have a new poverty line in which this data can be used,” Debroy noted at a Data Users Conference on the household consumer expenditure survey on Wednesday.
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April 22, 2024, 11:20 PM - 2 min read
In its complaint, the BJP also accused Gandhi of continuing to create a North-South divide in the country based on language and region to vitiate the poll atmosphere.
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