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Center-Right Owned by Living Media IndiaIndia lifted 50 crore out of severe poverty with welfare and anti-Naxal initiatives
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India has reduced extreme poverty, with a World Bank assessment indicating that nearly 496 million people have moved above the poverty threshold in the past 12 years, a change described as a historic socioeconomic transformation. Yet the country’s high prosperity gap means millions remain far from a comfortable standard of living, and factors such as informal work, stagnant wages and limited employment opportunities continue to constrain upward mobility.
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India has reduced extreme poverty, but its high prosperity gap shows that millions remain far from a comfortable standard of living; informal work, stagnant wages and limited employment opportunities continue to constrain upward mobility
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New Delhi, November 7 (IANS): The World Bank’s latest assessment that nearly 496 million Indians have moved above the poverty threshold in just 12 years, marks one of the most significant socioeconomic transformations in modern history, according to a report in Gulf Today.It highlights the World…
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India lifted 50 crore out of severe poverty with welfare and anti-Naxal initiatives