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25 cr Indians have been raised from poverty since 2013-14, says Govt. MPI uses indicators covering three main areas: health, education, and standard of living

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Interim Budget 2024 to be presented in Parliament at 11 am today is expected to continue with the government's big ticket expenditure on infrastructure projects and focus on agriculture and schemes for the ...

Budget 2024 highlights 3 tech schemes pulled people out of poverty; finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman 25 crore people above multidimensional poverty; 2013-14 29.2 percent population; decade later 2022-23 fell to 11.3 percent; latest news on news18.com

Given three alternate approaches to projecting poverty figures— (i) ignoring the impact of COVID-19, (ii) including it fully, and (iii) excluding only the peak impact—NITI Aayog choosing the data set that excludes the peak months of COVID-19 in 2020, as has been done in the National Family Health Survey-5, seems appropriate. However, any attempt to explain poverty reduction in

The multi-count index of poverty used by Niti Aayog provides a rounded look at the well-being of our worst-off but the idea of it is to identify dimensions that need more alleviation efforts. India’s government should re-adopt the use of consumption expenditure findings to estimate poverty.

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Until 2011-12, India relied on per capita monthly consumer expenditure data for estimating poverty levels. The Niti Aayog prefers to rely on a range of health, education and socio-economic indicators of the National Family Health Survey to estimate poverty.

A total of 4.03 lakh people in Nagaland transitioned out of multidimensional poverty (MPI) in the nine years leading up to 2022-23, according to a report released by the NITI Aayog on January 15.