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    The brouhaha over poverty reduction

    The missing census is putting policymaking on the dodgy ground of guesstimates

    Prosenjit Datta
    January 14, 2025 / 13:42 IST
    In the absence of an official poverty measure, anyone is free to come up with their own poverty estimates
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