That is why, ignorants who cannot understand the difference between living
below poverty and living
in poverty measured through MPI have to be educated.
First a critique on the MPI for measuring the number of Poor people itself. And this is straight from the Horse's mouth,
Martin Ravillion, Director of the WB's Research group. And the measure adopted by the WB is the more widely followed one, since MPI is a theory stooped in flaws, where in the Sample sizes to determine the Measures itself are quite small.
Now, you required my source, Here's my
source.
The principle reasons : Inflation due to global rise in Prices, Economic Recession which led to an adverse correction strategy to account for the prices of basic ameneties. And BTW, the article you quoted, has the number of people living below Poverty line as 37.2% (increasing from 27.5%), whereas earlier you contradicted it that it was 55% ; So, either revise your figures or your understanding of Poverty Measurements. Either ways, enlighten yourself.