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When data is used as a weapon against reality: Deviations in the HCES & CES, claims of poverty line
This Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) is qualitatively different in methodology (including sampling) from the earlier Household Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) last conducted in 2011-12, and therefore the two are not comparable. So the claim that India’s poverty has declined to below 5% doesn’t hold water: Second, the NITI Aayog has made no effort to even determine an official poverty line, last defined in the Census 2001.
Centre refers to 2011-12 data to discuss current poverty!
Minister of State of Ministry Of Planning and the Ministry Of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) talks about current poverty in India using 2011-12 data.
Poverty alleviation requires revision of Poverty Line
How the World Bank’s model is flawed and has kept us from making any meaningful progress in lifting people out of poverty
Poverty forces Kerala children to eat mud to survive
An alcoholic husband has pushed Sridevi and her six kids to this situation
Children living in extreme poverty are most vulnerable to effects of climate change
Suburban rains, Chennai Text of the note prepared by...
How the Indian Economy should be revived
A Wide-Angled Perspective: A rural-led strategy will deliver slower...
Why India’s New Wage Code Will Push Migrants Deeper Into Poverty
Ahmedabad: “I get Rs 300 for a day’s work...
Opinion: Why Hindutva philosophy never discusses poverty
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologues were for the...
Two friends’ brief encounter with poverty taught them why food security is so essential for all
Late last year, two young men decided to live...
9 Indian billionaires hold as much wealth as 50% population at the bottom: Oxfam report
The combined revenue and capital expenditure of the Centre...
Call for action against inequality and poverty ahead of World Trade Forum annual meet in Davos
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To mark the World Economic Forum meet in Davos...