In a conversation with ThePrint, the two economists talked about how India needs a national poverty line, an updated Census, and must focus on releasing more data instead of less.
A reasonable question to include in poverty measurement exercises would be the extent to which a person can carve out a life outside of the tentacles of the Indian state.
Bibek Debroy, chairman of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, also suggested that analysing inequality at the state level might provide a clearer picture of inequality, as a national estimate could be misleading.
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.
India's official poverty estimates are more than a decade old. A consumption expenditure survey was last conducted in 2017-18 but its findings were never accepted by the govt.
People who are undernourished are chronically hungry, meaning they don’t have enough to eat for a normal, healthy and active life for a period of at least a year.
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