As per the new World Bank report entitled: Addressing Inequality in South Asia (published in January 2015), if standard monetary indicators are to be taken at face value, South Asia has modest levels of inequality. Gini coefficients for consumption per capita range between 0.28 and 0.40 depending on the country, much lower than in China, Mexico,…
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As per the Report of the Expert Group to Review the Methodology for Measurement of Poverty (also called the Rangarajan Committee Report on Measurement of Poverty 2014), which was submitted to the Government of India in June 2014 (Please click here to download): • Based on the analysis presented in the Report by Rangarajan Committee, monthly per capita…
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The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) was created using a method developed by Sabina Alkire, OPHI Director, and James Foster, OPHI Research Associate and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University (2011). The Global MPI 2014 is an index of acute multidimensional poverty that covers 108 countries. It directly measures the nature…
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Please click here to access the key messages of the report entitled: Humanity divided: Confronting inequality in Developing Countries, UNDP (January, 2014). According to the report entitled: From poverty to empowerment: India’s imperative for jobs, growth, and effective basic services (2014), produced by McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) (please click here to download the report): • The Empowerment Line prepared by McKinsey…
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Please click here to access the salient findings of 69th Round of NSS regarding Key Indicators of Urban Slums in India (July 2012 to December 2012). Please click here to download the full report Key Indicators of Urban Slums in India, NSS 69th Round, July 2012-December 2012, MoSPI. Please click here to access the 32nd report by the Standing Committee on Finance…
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According to the paper titled: “The State of the Poor: Where are the Poor and Where are the Poorest?” (2013) by Pedro Olinto and Hiroki Uematsu, using data released in the latest World Development Indicators,http://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/document/State_of_the_poor_paper_April17.pdf: • India accounts for one-third (up from 22 percent in 1981) of the world poor in 2010 and China comes next contributing…
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According to the Press Note on Poverty Estimates, 2009-10, Planning Commission, March 2012, http://planningcommission.gov.in/news/press_pov1903.pdf: • The all-India head count ratio (HCR) has declined by 7.3 percentage points from 37.2% in 2004-05 to 29.8% in 2009-10, with rural poverty declining by 8.0 percentage points from 41.8% to 33.8% and urban poverty declining by 4.8 percentage points from…
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Please click here to access the key findings of the Suresh Tendulkar Committee Report on poverty, which was submitted in 2009. According to the 11th Five-Year Plan of the Planning Commissionhttp://www.planningcommission.nic.in/plans/planrel/fiveyr/11th/11_v3/11v3_ch4.pdf: • India has successfully reduced the share of the poor in the population by 27.4 percentage points from 54.9 in 1973 to 27.5 in 2004. Between 1973 and…
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KEY TRENDS • In 2018, India’s Human Development Index (HDI) ranking was 129th (HDI value 0.647) among 189 countries and UN recognized territories, while China’s ranking was 85th (HDI value 0.758), Sri Lanka’s 71st (HDI value 0.780), Bhutan’s 134th (HDI value 0.617), Bangladesh’s 135th (HDI value 0.614) and Pakistan’s 152th (HDI value 0.560) *8 • In 2017, India’s Human Development Index…
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