Extreme poverty in India

Extreme poverty in India reduced by over 12 percentage points in 2019 as compared with 2011 and the poverty headcount rate has declined from 22.5 per cent in 2011 to 10.2 per cent in 2019, according to a Working Paper of the World Bank. It…

Extreme poverty is estimated to have declined 12.3 percentage points between 2011 to 2019 in India, says a World Bank Policy Research Working Paper. The extreme poverty count fell from 22.5% in 2011 to 10.2% in 2019 and the decline in rural…