All the surveys coming from India itself are BS because they play with the numbers but surveys done by 3rd countries are more precise and the situation is much more severe than the Indian surveys themselves.. This is an Australian survey.
India growing strongly, but poverty gap widens
More than 700 million Indians subsist on less than $2 a day, and 420 million are living in extreme poverty.
INDIA has impressed the world with its GDP growth rate. Last year the economy expanded by more than 9 per cent and the International Monetary Fund has forecast growth of nearly 8 per cent this year, despite the world's economic travails.
But it's increasingly apparent that the well-being of the whole population is not improving at anything like the stellar pace of growth. India's growth rates have been far more impressive than its development outcomes - a much broader concept encompassing the economic and social progress of the entire society.
Last year India's economy expanded by more than 9 per cent, despite the world's economic travails.
www.smh.com.au
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Believe me when I say India is a poverty belt. I have been to Africa and India and there is no comparison in poverty. There is breathing space, clean and way less poverty in Africa compared to India.. The world capital of poverty
en.m.wikipedia.org
m.timesofindia.com
www.telegraph.co.uk
www.google.co.uk
