Ujjwal PriyankAIR 10 · CSE 2025 · 119 wordsTheir whole copy
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The recent World Bank estimation of poverty based on $3/day on PPP was 5.3% in India. Thus, showing a drastic reduction in past decade.
However, poverty has various dimension of deprivation, exclusion and marginalisation: Thus, there is a need for a credible and periodically updated
Poverty estimation in India
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B) Multidimensional Poverty Index -> ~11.7% poverty based on deprivation of education, health, basic necessity of life (C) OXFAM report -> ~40% wealth with top 1% in INDIA
Thus, there is a need for a credible and periodically updated
Poverty estimation in India
One of the earliest based on Y.K. Alagh Task force on calorie requirement
However, now India follows Tendulkar committee recommendation
Utilisation of Household consumption expenditure survey for measuring urban and rural average household consumption
Utilisation of mixed modified reference period to calculate the level of deprivation and consumption.
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Thus, an objective assessment based on qualitative as well as quantitative survey study is needed for measuring POVERTY.
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