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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.