-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Planning commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Monday admitted that the latest poverty estimates released last week is indeed low and needs to be revised upward. The commission said last week that only 21.9% of the population was poor, based on a per capita spending of 33.33 day in cities and 27.20 rural India, causing widespread outrage for being too low. "As the country becomes richer and...
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The dishonesty in counting the poor-Utsa Patnaik
-The Hindu The Planning Commission's spurious method shows a decline in poverty because it has continuously lowered the measuring standard The Planning Commission has once again embarrassed us with its claims of decline in poverty by 2011-12 to grossly unrealistic levels of 13.7 per cent of population in urban areas and 25.7 per cent in rural areas, using monthly poverty lines of Rs. 1000 and Rs. 816 respectively, or Rs. 33.3 and...
More »Ashish Bose, noted demographer interviewed by Somesh Jha
Ashish Bose coined the term BIMARU in a paper to then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in the 1980s to highlight the economic backwardness of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. He tells Somesh Jha he is not inspired by the Planning Commission’s bogus poverty figures. He says it is time the commission wound up. Excerpts: * You coined the term 'BIMARU', but these states performed well in alleviating poverty in...
More »Measuring poverty: How the world counts its poor -Gaurav Choudhury and Chetan Chauhan
-The Hindustan Times What does it mean to be poor across the world? It means different things in different countries depending on the definition of the poverty line-an income threshold below which families are considered poor. In most of Europe, a family with a net income of less than 60% of the "median net disposable income" - a broad measure of the national average income net of taxes income - is counted...
More »Facing flak, govt to revise poverty line benchmark
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government will soon revise the contentious poverty line upward from Rs 27.20 in rural areas and Rs 33.40 in urban areas after it receives the report of the Rangarajan committee that is examining the validity of the current yardstick. Minister of state for planning Rajeev Shukla told TOI the government was in the process of re-evaluating the poverty line in a bid to make it...
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