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    India’s policies must be more nuanced to fight poverty

    According to some number crunching done by Business Standard, OECD data indicates that the average Indian in a low-income household will take seven generations to reach median income levels!

    Subir Roy
    October 04, 2023 / 09:19 IST
    India’s policies must be more nuanced to fight poverty

    There are at least five estimates, made between 2014 and 2022, of the number of poor people in India ranging from the low of 34 million (2.5 percent of the population) to 373 million (29.5 percent of the population).

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