Poverty Rate in India Drops Below 5% First Time Ever as Rural-Urban Divide Shrinks
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Poverty Rate in India Drops Below 5% First Time Ever as Rural-Urban Divide Shrinks

The images of Mother Theresa’s work in Calcutta gave many people the idea that post-independence India was a place of destitution and grinding poverty‚ but today it’s on course for one of the great economic miracles in history. This gargantuan nation-state has reduced the official poverty level to below 5%‚ according to the consumer-expenditure survey […] The post Poverty Rate in India Drops Below 5% First Time Ever as Rural-Urban Divide Shrinks appeared first on Good News Network.