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#MintCharts | An estimated 135 million Indians came out of ‘multidimensional poverty’ between 2015-16 to 2019-21, with Bihar & Uttar Pradesh alone accounting for 56.8 million of them, a Niti Aayog report said.

Multidimensional #poverty is a composite measure that takes into account the impact of poverty beyond money, in aspects of life such as education, health and standards of living.
#MintSnapView | "The ongoing debate on the number of Indians exiting #poverty is one area in which the quality and availability of official statistics will matter not just for policymaking, but also for electoral campaigns."



Read here: https://www.livemint.com/opinion/online-views/government-must-work-to-restore-faith-in-indian-statistics-11689760871036.html
As #Pakistan grapples with an ongoing economic crisis, the #WorldBank has issued a stark warning: the country's current economic model is no longer effective in reducing #poverty.

In a recently published report titled 'Time to Decide', the World Bank argues that Pakistan needs urgent economic reforms.

Read here: https://www.livemint.com/news/world/75-years-after-independence-40-of-pakistanis-live-below-the-poverty-line-and-its-economic-model-is-not-working-11695528712845.html