UNDP index released Tuesday shows 55% of India was living under multidimensional poverty by 2005-06. This halved to 27.7% by 2015-16 and reduced further to 16.4% by 2019-21.
An update to global Multidimensional Poverty Index report 2022 found that deprivation across all indicators had declined in India. Post-pandemic data wasn’t available for report.
Data gathered through household surveys for over 6.1 billion people across 111 countries. In India, common deprivations were lack of housing, sanitation, cooking fuel & nutrition.
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022 covers 111 developing countries & shows India's progress outranks countries worldwide & also contributed to decline in overall poverty in South Asia.
Youth of Bahraich, Balrampur and Shravasti go wherever they learn there is work. Many prepare for this before they are adults, drop out of school if opportunity arises.
Healthcare workers, officials in Bahraich, Balrampur and Shravasti districts say there’s no one reason behind high malnutrition level in one of most backward regions in India.
ThePrint travelled across 3 UP districts in top 5 of Niti Aayog’s Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index, which measures deprivation in terms of health, education, living standards.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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