Despite India’s claim of historic poverty decline, new data raises doubts. Are vulnerable lives masked by changing metrics? Dig into the real numbers.

Debates on India’s poverty and inequality trends are welcome. We should be careful with global comparisons, though, and keep track of inter-generational mobility as well.

India's Gini Index score of 25.5 places it among the world's most equal societies, ahead of China and the US, reflecting shared growth and effective poverty reduction efforts ...

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In an extreme form it also means the prevalence of starvation deaths. By these rather grim benchmarks, India’s extreme poverty rate now stands at 5.3 per cent of the population.

The benefit of rise in per capita income has not percolated to the masses to the extent it was happening before 2015-16 ...

A Progress Review 2023', Singh said that between 2015-16 and 2019-21, the poverty rate reduced from 24.85 per cent to 14.96 ...

“At an aggregate level, we believe poverty rates in India could now be in the range of 4-4.5 per cent with almost minimal existence of extreme poverty,” it said.

The government must focus on improving development outcomes in the districts that have the lowest development indicators.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said India’s inflation rate has come down from double digits before 2014 to around 2% ...