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For a very long period of time “Gareebi Hatao” was a mere political slogan but did not translate into much, except for political dividends for the parties that used such empty slogans. In fact even.
As we marked World Poverty Day on October 17th, a blog published recently by World Bank staff highlights that poverty has finally receded to pre-COVID pandemic levels, which in essence means we have lost three years in the global fight against poverty. The recent World Bank blog is based on a meticulous analysis of survey data in the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP). This interactive web-based tool offers users quick access to data on poverty trends from a database comprising 2,200 household surveys from over 160 economics across the world, up from the 36 countries in one of the earliest such analyses published by the Bank in 1979.