Tag: Poverty

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

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Opinion: Why Hindutva philosophy never discusses poverty

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologues were for the...

9 Indian billionaires hold as much wealth as 50% population at the bottom: Oxfam report

The combined revenue and capital expenditure of the Centre...

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