Fact Check: Has Extreme Poverty in India Really Dropped Below 1%, as a New IMF Paper Claims?
Economists are sceptical of the claim that the country’s food security scheme helped avert a rise in extreme poverty. Here’s why.
India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Economists are sceptical of the claim that the country’s food security scheme helped avert a rise in extreme poverty. Here’s why.
The poverty line is based on the expenditure required to maintain a minimum level of health, education and nutritional outcome.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
Address: D-15, Ganesh Prasad, Naushir Bharucha Marg, Mumbai- 400007.
Help us increase our readership.
If you are enjoying reading Janata Weekly,
DO FORWARD THE WEEKLY MAIL to your mailing list and
invite people to subscribe for FREE!