According to the Global MPI 2018 Report, India has reduced its poverty rate drastically from 55% to 28% in 10 years, with 271 million people moving out of poverty between 2005-06 and 2015-16.
About:
The Global MPI 2018 Report is prepared by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative.
The report measures multidimensional poverty index (MPI), which can be broken down to show
Who is poor: Poverty rate as a percentage of the population.
How they are poor: Intensity as the average share of deprivations that poor people experience.
The product of these two is MPI. If someone is deprived in a third or more of 10 weighted indicators, the global index identifies them as “MPI poor”.
Global findings:
Worldwide 1.3 billion people live in multidimensional poverty in the 105 developing countries it covered.
Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia together account for 83% of all multidimensionally poor.
Children accounts for nearly half (49.9%) of the world’s poor.
Indian Scenario:
India has reduced its poverty rate drastically from 55% to 28% in 10 years, with 271 million people moving out of poverty between 2005-06 and 2015-16.
However, India still had 364 million poor in 2015-16, the largest for any country, although it is down from 635 million in 2005-06.
Of the 364 million people who were MPI poor in 2015-16, 156 million (34.6%) were children.
50% of ST members were still poor in 2015-16.
31% of Muslims were still poor in 2015-16.
Bihar was the poorest state in 2015-16, with more than half its population in poverty.
The four poorest states —Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh — were still home to over half of all the MPI poor people in India.
Jharkhand had the greatest improvement in reducing poverty.
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