Poverty Figures

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Ending extreme poverty is essential to save lives and limit damage from disasters, U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon said, as figures revealed poorer nations bear the brunt of deaths from earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, storms and heat waves.

World leaders have drawn up ambitious goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and promote development over the next 15 years, but now they have to figure out how to pay the bill.

Almost 1 billion more people will face a life of extreme poverty unless world leaders make progress on poverty and climate change at two crucial summits this year, according to a campaign backed by public figures such as Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai.

Japan's child poverty rate has hit a record high, according to a government survey, prompting criticism that Tokyo wasn't doing enough to fix the problem.

Chhattisgarh, Manipur, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar and Assam figure among the poorest states where over 40 per cent of people are below poverty line, according to the C Rangarajan panel.

Why Jaitley's Thursday speech is crucial by Ashok Malik.

Pursuing an "inclusive reforms" agenda that boosts investments and generates more jobs will help to significantly reduce poverty in India, where over half of the population struggle to meet their essential needs, McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) said on Wednesday.

September's figure of 4.8 per cent was the fourth successive quarter of economic growth below 5 per cent and remained far below the 8 per cent the government says is needed to reduce poverty and provide jobs. A Reuters poll of economists forecast the economy would grow 4.6 per cent in the quarter.

The Planning Commission's declaration that the number of poor in India has fallen to 22% of the population in the last seven years has evoked strong protests from the opposition and from an important ally, Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party or NCP.

Virtually sticking to its earlier controversial way of calculating poverty figures, Planning Commission said on Tuesday the number of people living below the poverty line has shrunk in both urban and rural areas.

The survey also pointed out that 10 per cent of the population at the lowest rung in rural areas lives on Rs 15 a day, while in urban areas the figure is only a shade better at Rs 20 day.

After the government faced flak over the Planning Commission's latest poverty estimates, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said a government panel would devise new methods to assess poverty in the country as the issue needs a multi-layered approach.

Politicians cutting across party lines may have slammed the Planning Commission for its latest figures on the poverty line but many of their ilk think that it is time they looked within.

Facing flak over latest poverty numbers, the Planning Commission today admitted that there is serious discrepancy in NSSO data and national accounts which led to pegging poverty line at Rs 28.65 per capita daily consumption in cities.

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Ending extreme poverty is essential to save lives and limit damage from disasters, U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon said, as figures revealed poorer nations bear the brunt of deaths from earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, storms and heat waves.

World leaders have drawn up ambitious goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and promote development over the next 15 years, but now they have to figure out how to pay the bill.

Almost 1 billion more people will face a life of extreme poverty unless world leaders make progress on poverty and climate change at two crucial summits this year, according to a campaign backed by public figures such as Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai.

Japan's child poverty rate has hit a record high, according to a government survey, prompting criticism that Tokyo wasn't doing enough to fix the problem.

Chhattisgarh, Manipur, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar and Assam figure among the poorest states where over 40 per cent of people are below poverty line, according to the C Rangarajan panel.

Why Jaitley's Thursday speech is crucial by Ashok Malik.

Pursuing an "inclusive reforms" agenda that boosts investments and generates more jobs will help to significantly reduce poverty in India, where over half of the population struggle to meet their essential needs, McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) said on Wednesday.

September's figure of 4.8 per cent was the fourth successive quarter of economic growth below 5 per cent and remained far below the 8 per cent the government says is needed to reduce poverty and provide jobs. A Reuters poll of economists forecast the economy would grow 4.6 per cent in the quarter.

The Planning Commission's declaration that the number of poor in India has fallen to 22% of the population in the last seven years has evoked strong protests from the opposition and from an important ally, Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party or NCP.

Virtually sticking to its earlier controversial way of calculating poverty figures, Planning Commission said on Tuesday the number of people living below the poverty line has shrunk in both urban and rural areas.

The survey also pointed out that 10 per cent of the population at the lowest rung in rural areas lives on Rs 15 a day, while in urban areas the figure is only a shade better at Rs 20 day.

After the government faced flak over the Planning Commission's latest poverty estimates, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said a government panel would devise new methods to assess poverty in the country as the issue needs a multi-layered approach.

Politicians cutting across party lines may have slammed the Planning Commission for its latest figures on the poverty line but many of their ilk think that it is time they looked within.

Facing flak over latest poverty numbers, the Planning Commission today admitted that there is serious discrepancy in NSSO data and national accounts which led to pegging poverty line at Rs 28.65 per capita daily consumption in cities.