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

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 end of 2030. The ‘Current Escape Rate’ is the current speed of poverty reduction between the year before and the year after the current year.” Cross-country comparisons of development and deprivation are fraught with problems since comparable data are difficult to get. The seven targets for SDG-1 are: eradicate extreme poverty; reduce poverty by at least 50 per cent; implement social protection systems; equal rights to ownership, basic services, technology and economic resources: build resilience to environmental, economic and social disasters; mobilise resources to implement policies to end poverty; create pro-poor and gender-sensitive policy frameworks.