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Extreme poverty in India has been cut by half, World Bank says
The number of poor in the populous country has dropped dramatically from 2011 to 2019, according to a new study Extreme poverty in India, the second-most populous country in the world, is estimated to have declined by 12.3 percentage points between 2011 to 2019, the Economic Times reported on Monday, citing a World Bank Policy Research Working Paper. According to the report, the count dropped from 22.5% in 2011 to 10.2% in 2019 and the decline in rural areas was much higher than in urban areas. The paper reportedly followed two approaches to estimating extreme poverty. “Both approaches yield qualitatively similar

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