EXPLAINER: National Multidimensional Poverty Index --How Niti Ayog Uses MPI To Measure Poverty In India
Over time, both NITI Aayog and its predecessor, the Planning Commission, have methodically produced estimates of poverty in their efforts to address the complexities of poverty.
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No of millionaires to soar by over 50% by 2022: Report
The report further said the country would have 3,70,000 millionaires in 2022, up from 2,45,000 now, an increase of over 50 percent.
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A man-made water crisis in Mumbai's backyard (video inside)
When water starts to flow out of the pipe, they pass the pipe down to their respective family members, mostly women, who fill up the blue drums.
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Higher growth best antidote to poverty: FM Jaitley
The government estimates growth to be between 8-8.5 percent in the current fiscal.
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Need for easing entry barriers for MNCs to boost growth: FM
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said there is a need to ease entry barriers for global corporates and ensure stability in taxation policies to sustain high growth and eradicate poverty.
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30 crore people still live in extreme poverty in India: Report
About 30 crore people still live in extreme poverty in India even as the Millennium Development Goal (MGD) programme will expire in December, a United Nations report has said.
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Nominal tax on super rich can lift 9 cr out of poverty: Report
The study found that in India, the number of billionaires increased from two in the 1990s to 65 in 2014.
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Poverty cannot be abolished,remove core problems: Meghnad Desai
Arguing that "poverty cannot be abolished", eminent India-born British economist, author and Labour Party politician Lord Meghnad Desai today said the better approach will be to concentrate on the core problems of poverty and try to remove them.
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100 million more Indians defined as poor: Reports
The poverty line is used to help determine government welfare benefit entitlements.
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