Recent World Bank data highlights that extreme poverty plunged to 2.6 percent by 2023, largely supported by a national welfare program distributing subsidized foodgrains to 800 million citizens. Even so, households without land face intense strain from open-market prices, leaving many statistically non-poor families in persistent deprivation. Adding to the policy debate, India has not produced an official consumption-based poverty estimate in over a decade.
The absence of official domestic consumption-based poverty estimates for over a decade fo…: The absence of official domestic consumption-based poverty estimates for over a decade forces reliance on outside calculations.
Vulnerable families freed from extreme poverty remain susceptible to slipping backward du…: Vulnerable families freed from extreme poverty remain susceptible to slipping backward due to single economic shocks.
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World Bank says India has pulled record numbers of citizens out of poverty, but millions among them are one shock away from being thrust back into destitution.
Rajsamand and New Delhi, India – Hema Prajapat, 25, says even “thorns growing inside her stomach” would not hurt as much as hunger does.
By the end of each month, her kitchen shelves are empty; her husband, Hari Prajapat, sinks deeper into debt; and an increasing share of their food supplies is set aside for their nine-year-old son, Divyansh.
But Hema’s family is no longer poor – at least on paper.
She spends 11,000 rupees ($117) a month on her household of three. That is about 49 percent more than the roughly 7,380 rupees ($78) monthly threshold for a family of that size, based on the World Bank’s poverty line.
India, the world’s most populous country, no longer counts its poor. It has not published an official consumption-based poverty estimate in more than a decade. That leaves the World Bank to provide internationally comparable estimates, using newer consumption surveys and its own poverty…
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