India has pulled out 271 million people out of poverty in last ten years, a report by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has said. The report has praised India’s “momentous progress” in reducing multidimensional poverty. The UNDP, which released in 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in partnership with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), said that the incidence of multidimensional poverty has almost halved between 2005-06 and 2015-16, from 54.7% to 27.5%.
India has pulled out 271 million people out of poverty in last ten years, a report by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has said. The report has praised India’s “momentous progress” in reducing multidimensional poverty. The UNDP, which released in 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in partnership with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), said that the incidence of multidimensional poverty has almost halved between 2005-06 and 2015-16, from 54.7% to 27.5%.