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🔆 India Lifts 171 Million Out of Extreme Poverty
Source: World Bank Poverty & Equity Brief, Spring 2025

📍 Key Findings from the Report:

✅ Extreme poverty dropped from 16.2% (2011-12) to 2.3% (2022-23)
✅ 171 million people lifted above the $2.15/day poverty line
✅ Rural poverty fell from 18.4% → 2.8%, urban poverty from 10.7% → 1.1%
✅ Lower-middle-income poverty (at $3.65/day) fell from 61.8% → 28.1%
✅ Multidimensional Poverty reduced to 15.5% in 2022-23
✅ Gini Index improved from 28.8 → 25.5, showing reduced inequality
✅ States like UP, Bihar, MP, WB, Maharashtra contributed to two-thirds of the decline
✅ Self-employment and female rural workforce saw significant rise
✅ Urban unemployment dropped to 6.6% in Q1 FY24-25 (lowest since 2017-18)

📘 Quote Source: World Bank Spring 2025 Poverty & Equity Brief
🔗 https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/publication/poverty-and-equity-briefs

📝 Prelims Question:
Which of the following benchmarks is used by the World Bank to define extreme poverty?

A. $1.90/day
B. $2.15/day ✅
C. $3.65/day
D. $5.50/day

📝 Mains Question:
Discuss the factors contributing to India’s sharp decline in extreme and multidimensional poverty over the past decade. What challenges remain in sustaining this momentum?



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🔆 India Lifts 171 Million Out of Extreme Poverty
Source: World Bank Poverty & Equity Brief, Spring 2025

📍 Key Findings from the Report:

✅ Extreme poverty dropped from 16.2% (2011-12) to 2.3% (2022-23)
✅ 171 million people lifted above the $2.15/day poverty line
✅ Rural poverty fell from 18.4% → 2.8%, urban poverty from 10.7% → 1.1%
✅ Lower-middle-income poverty (at $3.65/day) fell from 61.8% → 28.1%
✅ Multidimensional Poverty reduced to 15.5% in 2022-23
✅ Gini Index improved from 28.8 → 25.5, showing reduced inequality
✅ States like UP, Bihar, MP, WB, Maharashtra contributed to two-thirds of the decline
✅ Self-employment and female rural workforce saw significant rise
✅ Urban unemployment dropped to 6.6% in Q1 FY24-25 (lowest since 2017-18)

📘 Quote Source: World Bank Spring 2025 Poverty & Equity Brief
🔗 https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/publication/poverty-and-equity-briefs

📝 Prelims Question:
Which of the following benchmarks is used by the World Bank to define extreme poverty?

A. $1.90/day
B. $2.15/day ✅
C. $3.65/day
D. $5.50/day

📝 Mains Question:
Discuss the factors contributing to India’s sharp decline in extreme and multidimensional poverty over the past decade. What challenges remain in sustaining this momentum?

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