India has successfully reduced poverty—but has extreme poverty really fallen by 90 percent in a little over a decade, as new World Bank estimates indicate?
Eeshani Kandpal calls for more care and rigor in measuring India's progress: cgdev.org/blog/india-has…
Eeshani Kandpal calls for more care and rigor in measuring India's progress: cgdev.org/blog/india-has…
www.cgdev.org India Has Reduced Poverty. The Question Is: By How Much? India has reduced poverty. But the World Bank’s claim that extreme poverty fell by 90 percent rests on surveys whose redesign makes it hard to be certain about the size of the decline. Estimates from... 
