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India News: India's extreme poverty dropped from 27.1% to 5.3% in a decade, even after World Bank raised its global poverty line. 270 million lifted out of poverty.

Extreme poverty (living on less than $2.15 per day) fell from 16.2% in 2011-12 to 2.3% in 2022-23, lifting 171 million people above this line,” the World Bank had said in its ‘Poverty & Equity ...