We’ve made significant progress on poverty reduction
2 years, 5 months ago

We’ve made significant progress on poverty reduction

Live Mint  

Some great news and some not so good news. Titled Unpacking Deprivation Bundles to Reduce Multidimensional Poverty, the report is based on robust household survey data from 111 underlying developing countries and covers 6.1 billion people. As India’s population has quadrupled in the 75 years since Independence, India’s progress on poverty reduction has been steady, particularly in the last 30 or so years. In 2019, my column used the World Poverty Clock estimates to suggest that India had made dramatic strides in reducing extreme poverty. In India, the most common ‘deprivation bundle’ comprises access to cooking fuel, housing, nutrition and sanitation.

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Is poverty being underestimated in India?
2 months ago

Is poverty being underestimated in India?

The Hindu  

Last month, the government released a factsheet on the 2023-24 Household Consumption Expenditure Survey, which recorded a decline in poverty in urban and rural areas. Over the last few years, policymakers and academics have debated the issues of incomparable data sets, the unavailability of data, and the definition of an adequate consumption basket to determine a poverty line. Bhanumurthy: In …

Mint Primer: How to read SBI’s latest poverty estimates
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Mint Primer: How to read SBI’s latest poverty estimates

Live Mint  

A recent report by the State Bank of India has stirred up the proverbial hornet’s nest with its claims of a sharp reduction in poverty levels in India, particularly rural areas, in the past decade. The Suresh Tendulkar Committee calculated the poverty line at ₹816 per capita per month for rural areas and ₹1,000 for urban areas in 2011-12. In …

The uphill battle against poverty
2 months, 4 weeks ago

The uphill battle against poverty

Live Mint  

As we look ahead to 2025, the international community’s aspiration to end poverty warrants closer attention. To assess the world’s prospects for tackling humanity’s oldest problem, we asked contributors to respond to the following proposition: “Progress toward the world’s 2030 poverty-reduction goals will continue to disappoint." Today’s world is characterized by the old dichotomy between developing and developed countries, and …

India’s Global Indices Rankings 2024: From poverty to happiness, here’s how the country is ranked for the current year
3 months ago

India’s Global Indices Rankings 2024: From poverty to happiness, here’s how the country is ranked for the current year

The Hindu  

The year 2024 has marked the onset of numerous conflicts, leaving the global community grappling with the implications. Editorial | Abject failure: On India’s Global Hunger Index ranking World Press Freedom Index India’s score in the World Press Freedom Index has declined over the past year, decreasing from 36.62 to 31.28, as reported by Reporters Without Borders, which compiles an …

Exposing the Flaws in Reporters’ Collective’s allegations against India's Poverty Index
3 months, 1 week ago

Exposing the Flaws in Reporters’ Collective’s allegations against India's Poverty Index

Op India  

Reporters’ Collective, an American Deep State-funded group of journalists, published a report on 18th December alleging that the Narendra Modi government has rigged a “Homemade Poverty Index” to show a dramatic decrease in poverty in India. It claims that the government’s report of pulling 25 crore people out of poverty in 10 years is false because the govt of India …

How China energizes global poverty fight
3 months, 3 weeks ago

How China energizes global poverty fight

China Daily  

Ending poverty has long been a major challenge for humanity since ancient times. Centering on "targeted poverty alleviation," China's poverty reduction strategy blends rapid economic growth with tangible improvements in well-being. China's contributions to global poverty alleviation also go beyond financial and technical aid. At the recently concluded G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Chinese President Xi Jinping outlined China's …

China Focus: China sees improving livelihood in 75 years
5 months, 3 weeks ago

China Focus: China sees improving livelihood in 75 years

China Daily  

A consumer shops at a supermarket in Shaoyang, Central China's Hunan province, April 11, 2024. The per capita disposable income of China's residents was only 49.7 yuan in 1949, but climbed to 39,218 yuan in 2023, an increase of 75.8 times, or an annual growth rate of 6 percent, adjusted for inflation, according to a report released by the National …

China's Per capita Living Standards Soar: A Journey of 75 Years
5 months, 3 weeks ago

China's Per capita Living Standards Soar: A Journey of 75 Years

China Daily  

China's living standards have significantly improved in the past 75 years, with per capita disposable income increasing from 49.7 yuan to 39,218 yuan. This growth has been driven by the development of the private economy and the expansion of the national economy. The Engel's coefficient, which measures food expenditures as a proportion of total household spending, has declined significantly, indicating …

Basic survival no longer an issue in India, says Niti Aayog
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Basic survival no longer an issue in India, says Niti Aayog

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: India has made significant progress in eliminating poverty, especially in the past nine years, and according to Niti Aayog’s SDG Index 2023-24, the country is expected to achieve the SDG target 1.2 of halving multidimensional poverty much ahead of 2030. In 2022-23, it further dropped to 11.28%, with 24.8 crore people moving out of multidimensional poverty between 2013-14 …

PM Modi's data on poverty eradication has no international recognition: Shashi Tharoor
10 months ago

PM Modi's data on poverty eradication has no international recognition: Shashi Tharoor

Hindustan Times  

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday took a jibe at PM Narendra Modi claiming that no data given by the Prime Minister has received international recognition. Amid the ongoing Lok Sabha Election 2024, PM Modi in his campaign rallies, has been claiming that his government lifted 25 crore Indians out of poverty. What NITI Aayog report on poverty alleviation …

Poverty and inequality debate resurfaces in election season
11 months ago

Poverty and inequality debate resurfaces in election season

Hindustan Times  

As Indians heads to the poll this season, a new chapter is being written in a very old debate about poverty and inequality in India. This debate has been stirred up by the release of new data from a government- The economist Maitreesh Ghatak spoke about the resurgent debate over poverty and inequality on last week’s episode of Grand Tamasha, …

Towards a less poor and more equal country
11 months, 1 week ago

Towards a less poor and more equal country

The Hindu  

In March, World Inequality Lab, a global research centre focused on inequality and public policies, published a working paper titled, ‘Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj’. It states that “the ‘Billionaire Raj’ headed by India’s modern bourgeoisie is now more unequal than the British Raj headed by the colonialist forces.” Inequality undermines both …

Data on what Indians earn does have plenty to reveal of poverty in India
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Data on what Indians earn does have plenty to reveal of poverty in India

Live Mint  

Even though the fact-sheet on the Consumption Expenditure Survey has been officially released, the debate on poverty is far from over. For all of India, it would imply a poverty line of ₹445 per day, slightly higher than the government notified minimum wages. This was only ₹310 per day in case of agricultural workers, lower than the estimate reported by …

What the new expenditure survey says about poverty
1 year ago

What the new expenditure survey says about poverty

New Indian Express  

The publication of a fact sheet by the National Sample Survey Office, containing the results of the NSS Household Consumer Expenditure Survey data for 2022-23, a decade after the publication of the last survey data in 2011-12, has again sparked a debate regarding poverty in India. Using the 2022-23 data on average monthly per capita consumer expenditure for rural and …

Breaking the poverty cycle: Charting India’s path to prosperity
1 year ago

Breaking the poverty cycle: Charting India’s path to prosperity

Firstpost  

There is a World Poverty Clock. Funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany, the World Poverty Clock shows the number of people living in extreme poverty worldwide, disaggregated by age, gender and rural/urban location. ‘Target Escape Rate’ is the average poverty reduction needed to achieve SDG1 by the …

Has poverty really dropped to 5% in India?
1 year ago

Has poverty really dropped to 5% in India?

The Hindu  

Subrahmanyam recently claimed that less than 5% of Indians now live below the poverty line. Mr. Subrahmanyam argued that the average consumption expenditure in the bottom 5% of India’s population, as estimated by the survey, is about the same as the poverty line in India, suggesting that the poverty rate in India is somewhere in the range of 0 to …

Has poverty really dropped to 5% in India?
1 year ago

Has poverty really dropped to 5% in India?

The Hindu  

Subrahmanyam recently claimed that less than 5% of Indians now live below the poverty line. Mr. Subrahmanyam argued that the average consumption expenditure in the bottom 5% of India’s population, as estimated by the survey, is about the same as the poverty line in India, suggesting that the poverty rate in India is somewhere in the range of 0 to …

While poverty is declining globally, number of poor people rise in Sub-Saharan Africa: Data
1 year ago

While poverty is declining globally, number of poor people rise in Sub-Saharan Africa: Data

The Hindu  

At a time when the number of people living in poverty has been declining worldwide, and significantly in some regions, Sub-Saharan Africa has seen a high increase. Click to remove AMP mode While the number of poor people in Sub-Saharan Africa increased, poverty in terms of the share of the region’s population reduced from 53.8% in 1990 to 35.4% in …

India has now officially eliminated 'extreme poverty', American think tank Brookings said in a report
1 year ago

India has now officially eliminated 'extreme poverty', American think tank Brookings said in a report

Op India  

India has now officially eliminated ‘extreme poverty’, which can be seen through the sharp decline in headcount poverty ratio and stark increase in household consumption, American think tank Brookings said in a report. According to Brookings, high growth and large decline in inequality have combined to eliminate poverty in India for the Purchasing Power Parity USD 1.9 poverty line. The …

Poverty levels below 5%, claims NITI Aayog chief
1 year, 1 month ago

Poverty levels below 5%, claims NITI Aayog chief

The Hindu  

Less than 5% of Indians are now expected to be below the poverty line, and extreme destitution has almost gone away, a top government official asserted on February 25, citing the findings of the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey for 2022-23. Subrahmanyam, the chief executive officer of the Centre’s think tank Niti Aayog, averred that growth is “broad-based” with rural Indians’ …

Multidimensional poverty in India: decoding the Niti Aayog report | In Focus podcast
1 year, 2 months ago

Multidimensional poverty in India: decoding the Niti Aayog report | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

A new paper released by the NITI Aayog has claimed that multidimensional poverty has declined from 29.17% in 2013-14 to 11.28% in 2022-23, and that 24.82 crore people “escaped” from multidimensional poverty during this 9-year period. Titled ‘Multidimensional Poverty in India since 2005-06: A Discussion Paper’, the NITI Aayog report claims that India is well on track to achieve the …

Multidimensional poverty: Can we eliminate it within a decade?
1 year, 2 months ago

Multidimensional poverty: Can we eliminate it within a decade?

Live Mint  

Going by Niti Aayog’s latest assessment, India has made substantial gains in its fight against deprivation. The Niti Aayog’s index has a formula that echoes what the United Nations Development Programme uses for multidimensional poverty, with parameters that differ slightly. Since the central think-tank’s 12 counts include several that targeted programmes can move the needle on—like nutrition, child mortality, sanitation, …

What poverty numbers reveal
1 year, 2 months ago

What poverty numbers reveal

Hindustan Times  

India has pulled 248 million out of multidimensional poverty between 2013-14 and 2022-23, according to a discussion paper released by the NITI Aayog on Monday. PREMIUM Elections aside, what is the real import of the multidimensional poverty numbers? Because multidimensional poverty numbers are not based on measuring consumption expenditure and, therefore, on whether or not a person is above the …

NITI Aayog report says 24.82 cr Indians escaped multidimensional poverty in last 9 yrs
1 year, 2 months ago

NITI Aayog report says 24.82 cr Indians escaped multidimensional poverty in last 9 yrs

Hindustan Times  

A total of 24.82 crore individuals in India escaped multidimensional poverty over the last nine years, with the largest decline reported in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, a report released by the NITI Aayog on Monday, said. The findings were published in NITI Aayog’s Discussion Paper "Multidimensional Poverty in India since 2005-'06", Multidimensional poverty is measured by improvement in …

Over 24.8 crore people moved out of poverty in India in nine years: NITI report
1 year, 2 months ago

Over 24.8 crore people moved out of poverty in India in nine years: NITI report

The Hindu  

As many as 24.82 crore people moved out of multidimensional poverty in nine years to 2022-23, with Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh registering the largest decline, Niti Aayog said in a report on January 15. According to the NITI discussion paper, multidimensional poverty in India declined from 29.17% in 2013-14 to 11.28% in 2022-23, with about 24.82 crore people …

Multidimensional Poverty Index reduction under the NDA is flawed
1 year, 3 months ago

Multidimensional Poverty Index reduction under the NDA is flawed

The Hindu  

Samuel Johnson, a profound literary critic and essayist, wrote, “Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.” In sharp contrast, conventional measures of poverty in terms of income are limited and narrowly focused on scarcity of resources to eke out a bare subsistence. The MPI story …

India among top countries with high income, wealth inequality: UNDP report
1 year, 4 months ago

India among top countries with high income, wealth inequality: UNDP report

Live Mint  

India has emerged among top countries with high income and wealth inequality but the share of the population living in multidimensional poverty fell from 25 to 15 per cent between 2015-16 and 2019-21, the UNDP said in a new report. Despite these successes, poverty remains persistently concentrated in states that are home to 45 per cent of the country's population …

Consumption-based poverty estimates have relevance
1 year, 7 months ago

Consumption-based poverty estimates have relevance

The Hindu  

A recent report by NITI Aayog on multidimensional poverty shows that the percentage of the poor has gone down from 25% in 2015-16 to 15% in 2019-21 and around 135 million people were lifted out of poverty during this period. The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index report of 2023 of the United Nations Development Programme and the Oxford Poverty & Human …

The week in 5 charts | Manipur unrest, INDIA alliance, Alcaraz wins Wimbledon, and more
1 year, 8 months ago

The week in 5 charts | Manipur unrest, INDIA alliance, Alcaraz wins Wimbledon, and more

The Hindu  

Unrest in Manipur continues More than two months after three women were stripped and paraded by a mob in violence-hit Manipur, police arrested four accused in a case of gang rape and abduction, one of whom was seen in a viral video clip of the incident which surfaced online on Wednesday. 26 Opposition parties form INDIA alliance The leaders of …

Govt’s claim on poverty reduction based on multidimensional poverty index questionable: Parakala Prabhakar
1 year, 8 months ago

Govt’s claim on poverty reduction based on multidimensional poverty index questionable: Parakala Prabhakar

The Hindu  

The Union government’s claim that the number of people living in poverty has significantly reduced in recent years based on multidimensional poverty index is highly questionable, political economist Parakala Prabhakar said here on Saturday. During an interaction with N. Ram, Director, THG Publishing Private Ltd., organised by the Dravidian Professionals Forum, on his new book — The Crooked Timber of …

India’s triumphs over poverty marred by an alarming hunger crisis as over 70 per cent of Indians fails to afford healthy food
1 year, 8 months ago

India’s triumphs over poverty marred by an alarming hunger crisis as over 70 per cent of Indians fails to afford healthy food

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 21, 2023 12:38 IST - 3 MINS READ Government think-tank NITI Aayog’s recent report, released on July 17, revealed a remarkable achievement in India’s fight against multidimensional poverty. However, despite these positive strides in economic development, a consortium of esteemed organisations including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, …

Niti Aayog report claims decrease in multidimensional poverty
1 year, 8 months ago

Niti Aayog report claims decrease in multidimensional poverty

The Hindu  

India has registered a significant decline of 9.89 percentage points in the number of multidimensionally poor, from 24.85% in 2015-16 to 14.96% in 2019-2021, according to the ‘National Multidimensional Poverty Index: A Progress Review 2023’. It claims that about 13.5 crore people came out of multidimensional poverty during the period, assessed by identifying “acute deprivations in health, education and standard …

13.5 crore Indians move out of multidimensional poverty in five years: Niti Aayog report
1 year, 8 months ago

13.5 crore Indians move out of multidimensional poverty in five years: Niti Aayog report

The Hindu  

India witnessed 13.5 crore people moving out of multidimensional poverty between 2015-16 and 2019-21 with fastest reduction in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Rajasthan, a Niti Aayog report said on Monday. The report — 'National Multidimensional Poverty Index: A progress of Review 2023' — was released by Suman Bery, Vice-Chairman, Niti Aayog. Providing multidimensional poverty estimates for the …

415 mn Indians no longer poor, says UN
1 year, 8 months ago

415 mn Indians no longer poor, says UN

Live Mint  

As many as 415 million Indians moved out of poverty in the 15-year period between 2005/2006 and 2019/2021, the UN said in a report on Tuesday. “Countries halved their MPI in periods as short as four to 12 years, demonstrating the feasibility of the Sustainable Development Goal target of halving poverty according to national definitions within 15 years,” it added. …

India registers remarkable reduction in poverty: UN
1 year, 8 months ago

India registers remarkable reduction in poverty: UN

Deccan Chronicle  

United Nations: A total of 415 million people moved out of poverty in India within just 15 years from 2005/2006 to 2019/2021, the UN said on Tuesday, highlighting the remarkable achievement by the world's most populous nation. "Notably, India saw a remarkable reduction in poverty, with 415 million people exiting poverty within a span of just 15 years," the report …

415 million Indians came out of multidimensional poverty in 15 years, says UNDP study
1 year, 8 months ago

415 million Indians came out of multidimensional poverty in 15 years, says UNDP study

The Hindu  

A total of 415 million people moved out of poverty in India within just 15 years from 2005/2006 to 2019/2021, the United Nations said on July 11, highlighting the remarkable achievement by the world's most populous nation. "Notably, India saw a remarkable reduction in poverty, with 415 million people exiting poverty within a span of just 15 years," the report …

UN praises 'remarkable' India as 415 million exit poverty levels in 15 years
1 year, 8 months ago

UN praises 'remarkable' India as 415 million exit poverty levels in 15 years

Hindustan Times  

A total of 415 million people moved out of poverty in India within just 15 years from 2005/2006 to 2019/2021, the UN said on Tuesday, highlighting the remarkable achievement by the world's most populous nation. In India, 415 million poor people moved out of poverty from 2005/2006 to 2019/2021, with incidence falling from 55.1 per cent in 2005/2006 to 16.4 …

AAP’s Atishi Marlena follows Rahul Gandhi’s lead, and defames India at Cambridge based on lies: Here is the truth about HDI, Hunger Index and more
1 year, 9 months ago

AAP’s Atishi Marlena follows Rahul Gandhi’s lead, and defames India at Cambridge based on lies: Here is the truth about HDI, Hunger Index and more

Op India  

On Thursday, Aam Aadmi Party Minister Atishi Marlena went on an anti-India tirade during a conference on ‘India at 100; Towards becoming a global leader’, which was held at the University of Cambridge. First, UNDP itself acknowledged that India’s decline is in line with global trends in the face of crises such as the Russia-Ukraine war, the Covid-19 pandemic and …

The simmering debate over poverty rate
1 year, 10 months ago

The simmering debate over poverty rate

Live Mint  

London/Boston: As the 2024 elections approach, taking stock of the economy after a decade-long rule of the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi becomes a natural talking point. View Full Image Graphic: Mint According to the World Bank’s earlier $1.90 PPP per day line that defines extreme poverty, 23% of India’s population was poor in 2011-12, the last estimate …

When asked for data on poverty reduction, Government of India gives 10 year old data
2 years ago

When asked for data on poverty reduction, Government of India gives 10 year old data

The Hindu  

The Union government seemed to have acknowledged that it had no data to assess whether the poverty levels in the country had reduced in recent years, a reply provided in the Rajya Sabha on Monday for a question raised by two DMK Rajya Sabha MPs showed. Rajeshkumar had asked whether large number of people were living below poverty line in …

Claims of spike in poverty in India during COVID-19 patently false, says paper co-authored by Arvind Panagariya
2 years ago

Claims of spike in poverty in India during COVID-19 patently false, says paper co-authored by Arvind Panagariya

The Hindu  

Claims of a spike in poverty and inequality in India during the COVID-19 pandemic are patently false as such claims are based on uncomparable different surveys, according to a paper co-authored by eminent economist Arvind Panagariya. Mr. Panagariya, Columbia University Professor and former Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog and Vishal More of Intelink Advisors, New Delhi have co-authored a detailed paper …

Centre in ‘denial mode’ of India’s poverty, hunger issues: P. Chidambaram
2 years, 5 months ago

Centre in ‘denial mode’ of India’s poverty, hunger issues: P. Chidambaram

The Hindu  

Veteran Congress leader and former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday said that the Narendra Modi-led Central Government is in "denial mode" vis-a-vis challenge of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, which he claimed was more evident when it rejected the latest Global Hunger Index report. Right after the report, India rejected the Global Hunger index 2022, saying it suffers from "serious …

India slips in Global Hunger Index, ranks 107 out of 121 nations
2 years, 5 months ago

India slips in Global Hunger Index, ranks 107 out of 121 nations

Al Jazeera  

Asia’s third-largest economy has registered impressive economic growth in recent decades but it fares poorly on UN human development indices. The GHI, jointly published by the German-based Welthungerhilfe and Dublin-based Concern Worldwide, which ranks countries by “severity”, gave India a score of 29.1 – a hunger level falling under the “serious” category. “South Asia … has the highest child stunting …

Inflation impact on India’s poor negligible, says FM citing UNDP report
2 years, 8 months ago

Inflation impact on India’s poor negligible, says FM citing UNDP report

The Hindu  

The impact of inflation on India’s poor would be negligible as per a United Nations Development Programme report on ‘Addressing the Cost of Living Crisis in Developing Countries’, which also looked at the ripple effects of the Russia-Ukraine war such as energy and food market disruptions. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman cited the UNDP’s conclusions in the report to emphasise that …

How Modi’s India Has Succeeded in Bringing Down Poverty in Rural Areas
2 years, 9 months ago

How Modi’s India Has Succeeded in Bringing Down Poverty in Rural Areas

News 18  

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” This oft-cited quote is attributed to Lord Kelvin or William Thomson, who also theorised a completely new temperature scale. The poverty line has been disaggregated state-wise and separately for rural and urban areas. In one of the most cited essays on poverty, Lipton and Ravallion note: “The highest incidence and severity …

Income Inequality Declined in India During Covid-19, Nation Managed Shocks Well: SBI Report
2 years, 9 months ago

Income Inequality Declined in India During Covid-19, Nation Managed Shocks Well: SBI Report

News 18  

Inequality of Income in India has declined significantly since FY17, while inequality has also declined during the pandemic, according to the latest SBI Ecowrap research report. The decline in income inequality has been significant since FY17, the year of big bang formalisation that started with demonetisation, RERA reforms and GST reform in FY18, said the report authored by Soumya Kanti …

Poverty in India: Decline over the decade
2 years, 9 months ago

Poverty in India: Decline over the decade

Live Mint  

Poverty is a much-debated issue. That poverty line is typically defined as a minimum basket of goods and services required for subsistence, converted into a nominal consumption expenditure figure, using appropriate prices. In other words, one uses monthly per capita consumption expenditure to define poverty line. If growth enabled those just below the poverty line to move above, it is …

A poverty trend in search of an explanation
2 years, 9 months ago

A poverty trend in search of an explanation

The Hindu  

A noticeable absence in the blitzkrieg of information on the economy periodically unleashed by the Union government over the past few years has been estimates of poverty. While the level of poverty estimated by these two studies varies considerably, with the one by Roy and van der Weide showing twice the poverty level estimated by Bhalla et al., they share …

India eradicates ‘extreme poverty’ via PMGKY: IMF paper
2 years, 11 months ago

India eradicates ‘extreme poverty’ via PMGKY: IMF paper

The Hindu  

A new IMF paper released on Tuesday, titled ‘Pandemic, Poverty, and Inequality: Evidence from India’ says that ‘extreme poverty was maintained below 1% in 2020 due to Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana. Dismissing the NSS 2017-18 consumer expenditure survey as 'ill-fated', this paper claims food subsidies have reduced poverty on a consistent basis since the enactment of the Food …

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