New ‘poverty standards’ enrage Indians
November 09, 2011 07:07
The Indian government has announced a drop in the number of poor people in the country by massaging the criteria used to measure poverty. By its reckoning, less than a dollar a day is enough to get by – but the numbers don’t tell the whole story.
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