India has almost wiped out extreme poverty: International Monetary Fund

[Joe Shearer]

Its very easy, Just look at India you will know what extreme poverty is because any source or definition would be hogwash for you..

So just waving your hands about, nothing more than that? You must have been getting picked on a lot in real life.

 

[K_Bin_W]

So just waving your hands about, nothing more than that? You must have been getting picked on a lot in real life.

Gets one to know one

 

[Joe Shearer]

Gets one to know one

Yes. I have to prove myself to you

 

[jamahir]

No Indian has to sleep hungry with the Number of government and ngo schemes and organisations devoted to providing aid.

LOL, really ? Then why did this woman die of hunger on a train that stopped at a Bihar railway station during the 2020 COVID lockdown and the government-imposed reverse migration of laborers ? She died because neither she had the money to buy food at the railway station nor did the railway department provide her free food on the train nor did the state government ( the BJP government of "Vibrant Gujarat" ) and the central government tell her that she stay back in Gujarat where she worked and the government will provide her with food for free during the duration of the lockdown. And during the same lockdown of 2020 this starving laborer in Rajasthan was found eating the carcass of a dog on the highway because he didn't have money to buy food as everything in India needs money, India being the most Capitalist society in history. Fortunately that day a kindly man stopped his car upon seeing the starving laborer and gave him food and water :

A video is going viral on social media showing the shocking extent to which the coronavirus lockdown has hit the poor.

The video is of a man eating from a carcass, possibly of a dog, on the Jaipur-Delhi Highway.


The video was uploaded on YouTube by Pradhuman Singh Naruka, a Jaipur resident. In the video, Naruka claims he was on his way to Delhi when he spotted the man near Shahpura, which lies in Jaipur district. In the video, which was uploaded on May 18, Naruka asks the man what he was eating and tells him he will die. He then asks the man to move to a spot on the highway near a truck, where he feeds him.

In a Facebook post, Naruka claimed, "Humanity was put to shame in Shahpura when a labourer due to hunger was forced to eat a dog. What is worse is that no person stopped their vehicle and saw the need to help him. I gave him food and water to drink..." Naruka appealed to people to help those in need.

Speaking to THE WEEK, Naruka said the man was possibly a homeless person. He said the incident happened on afternoon of May 18. Naruka added that police officials had contacted him on Thursday, seeking details of the man and the spot where he was found.

Many people shared the video on social media, tagging mediapersons and government officials. Lavanya Ballal, who has been associated with the social media team of the Congress, targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the video. She wrote, "This is beyond heartbreaking. No one deserves this He is eating the carcass of a dead dog. @narendramodi India won’t forget this amount of pain and humiliation heaped of the poor...".

In recent weeks, incidents of deaths of migrant workers walking to their homes and images of their hardship have shocked India. More than 100 migrant labourers have been killed in multiple road and rail accidents across India in recent weeks.

Watch the vid in the article.

Let me modify your post to say the truth : No dog in India has to sleep hungry with the number of government and NGO schemes and organization to provide aid to the dog even if millions of humans go hungry or are otherwise deprived.

Today in India, a poor guy can do bypass surgery in India in an expense lower than a guy taking dinner in a good restaurant in US or Europe.

Googled and found this :

How much does Coronary Bypass Surgery cost in India? The average cost of Coronary Bypass Surgery in India is approximately Rs. 95,000 to 4,50,000.. However, the prices may vary depending upon the hospitals in different cities.

Now what if the patient and his or her family don't have the money ? Millions of Indians become indebted because the Indian healthcare system doesn't provide most treatments for free and the patient and his or her family only have the option of letting the patient die or taking loan from usurious banks or that other atrocity called medical insurance companies and then paying off that loan for years sacrificing so many things because in India everything is based on money. My late father in his last years had to be hospitalized and the hospital bill came to a few lakhs and then there was the continuing medication and care costs after the hospitalization and it was only payable because both my brothers had medical insurance. It wasn't Modi ji's "Sabka saath, sabka vikass" government who paid for the treatment or enabled free treatment. So please stop spreading untruths and understand the truths of India for yourself.

Small operations like cataract, teeth tratment etc is done free in hundreds of places by expert doctors.

Free ? From where did you get that info ? There is an ad on NDTV India of an international NGO called Sightsavers which asks for the citizens to fund eye treatment of Indians. What is the government doing except for spending financial, material and human resources in nonsense or harmful things ?

 

[Maula Jatt]

Pakistan - 1250 usd per capita
sri Lanka - 3800 usd per capita

Pakistan is above wartorn Afghanistan .
Same as nepal.


i was chased by beggers in your shiny china just outside a high speed rail station.

your per Capita it's from 2005 base year which itself was very shoddy/little work and took almost everything from 90s era base years

Here's the extreme poverty rate in south Asia- Sri Lanka, Pak from South Asia
@Imran Khan because of this conversation I was asking for the screenshot

 

[Surya 1]

LOL, really ? Then why did this woman die of hunger on a train that stopped at a Bihar railway station during the 2020 COVID lockdown and the government-imposed reverse migration of laborers ? She died because neither she had the money to buy food at the railway station nor did the railway department provide her free food on the train nor did the state government ( the BJP government of "Vibrant Gujarat" ) and the central government tell her that she stay back in Gujarat where she worked and the government will provide her with food for free during the duration of the lockdown. And during the same lockdown of 2020 this starving laborer in Rajasthan was found eating the carcass of a dog on the highway because he didn't have money to buy food as everything in India needs money, India being the most Capitalist society in history. Fortunately that day a kindly man stopped his car upon seeing the starving laborer and gave him food and water :

Watch the vid in the article.

Let me modify your post to say the truth : No dog in India has to sleep hungry with the number of government and NGO schemes and organization to provide aid to the dog even if millions of humans go hungry or are otherwise deprived.



Googled and found this :

Now what if the patient and his or her family don't have the money ? Millions of Indians become indebted because the Indian healthcare system doesn't provide most treatments for free and the patient and his or her family only have the option of letting the patient die or taking loan from usurious banks or that other atrocity called medical insurance companies and then paying off that loan for years sacrificing so many things because in India everything is based on money. My late father in his last years had to be hospitalized and the hospital bill came to a few lakhs and then there was the continuing medication and care costs after the hospitalization and it was only payable because both my brothers had medical insurance. It wasn't Modi ji's "Sabka saath, sabka vikass" government who paid for the treatment or enabled free treatment. So please stop spreading untruths and understand the truths of India for yourself.



Free ? From where did you get that info ? There is an ad on NDTV India of an international NGO called Sightsavers which asks for the citizens to fund eye treatment of Indians. What is the government doing except for spending financial, material and human resources in nonsense or harmful things ?

I am ready to provide many reference in my support. If I do that, are you ready get away from here? The speciality of a person like you is that when some one is talking about a billion people, you will give one example to counter it and think that you have provrd your point. India has pulled out 99 pc population out of hunger poverty means that there are still over ten million people bellow poverty line. Your example is one of that of a person devoid of any logoc.

 

[jamahir]

I am ready to provide many reference in my support. If I do that, are you ready get away from here?

Do provide your many references. And why should I get away from here, just because your preach Dear Leader's propaganda ?

The speciality of a person like you is that when some one is talking about a billion people, you will give one example to counter it and think that you have provrd your point. India has pulled out 99 pc population out of hunger poverty means that there are still over ten million people bellow poverty line. Your example is one of that of a person devoid of any logoc.

Even one person hungry is a tragedy and there are millions who are so, while the 60+ million stray dogs in India not going hungry is a comedy. All this while the government spends vast amounts of resources on building ridiculous, unnecessary things or buying unnecessary things. And a Hindutvadi talking about logic is yet another joke.

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

India has almost wiped out extreme poverty: International Monetary Fund​

In India, the number of people living in extreme poverty -- defined by the World Bank as living on US$1.9 or less in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms -- was 0.8% of the population in the pre-pandemic year 2019, stated the IMF paper, published on April 5, 2022.

India has almost wiped out extreme poverty, says IMF(REUTERS)
Updated on Apr 07, 2022 05:40 PM IST

ByZia Haq
New Delhi: India has almost eradicated extreme poverty and brought down consumption inequality to its lowest levels in 40 years through state-provided food handouts, according to a new working paper published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The IMF working paper -- authored by economists Surjit Bhalla, Arvind Virmani and Karan Bhasin -- said that the proportion of people living in extreme poverty, at less than 1%, remained steady even during the pandemic on the back of “in-kind” subsidies, especially food rations.


The study comes at a time when several recent global reports have pointed to the widening gap between the rich and poor in Asia’s third-largest economy, while studies on the economic shocks of the Covid-19 pandemic vary in their conclusions.

In India, the number of people living in extreme poverty -- defined by the World Bank as living on US$1.9 or less in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms -- was 0.8% of the population in the pre-pandemic year 2019, stated the IMF paper, published on April 5, 2022.

Food rations were “instrumental” in ensuring that extreme poverty did not increase and “remained at that low level” in the pandemic year 2020, the study found. PPP is a metric that equalises the buying power of different currencies to make comparisons easy.
Our results also demonstrate the social safety net provided by the expansion of India’s food subsidy program absorbed a major part of the pandemic shock,” the authors stated. Such back-to-back low poverty rates suggest India has eliminated extreme poverty, they concluded.

Also read:

What sets their study apart, according to the authors, is the effect of subsidy adjustments on poverty. The results are “striking”, they said in the working paper. Food handouts curbed poverty by acting like “cash transfers”.

IMF states that its working papers describe research in progress, and are published to elicit comments.

Real (inflation-adjusted) inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, which stands at 0.294, is now very close to its lowest level 0.284 observed in 1993-94, the paper stated. The Gini coefficient ranges from 0 to 1, with 0 representing perfect equality and 1 representing perfect inequality.

The food subsidy is 5kg per person. In terms of a household, that would be about 25 kg a month. Now if you convert that into prices, that would come to about ₹750. This is not an insignificant amount for really poor households,” said Pronab Sen, former chief statistician of India.

“But I cannot imagine ₹750 changing the inequality part of it. Absolute poverty in terms of hunger…yes, but inequality is a different ballgame. ₹750 is just not enough to move the needle on inequality,” Sen added.

Also read: Why IMF praised PM Modi’s food security scheme during pandemic

Most previous studies and measures of poverty and inequality did not account for the role of food handouts, the paper’s authors noted. “These (new) estimates include, for the first time, the effect of in-kind food subsides on poverty and inequality,” the paper stated.

India has almost wiped out extreme poverty: International Monetary Fund

In India, the number of people living in extreme poverty -- defined by the World Bank as living on US$1.9 or less in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms -- was 0.8% of the population in the pre-pandemic year 2019, stated the IMF paper, published on April 5, 2022.

www.google.com

The above article is from an indian newspaper so likely to be FAKE news as india is the BIGGEST propaganda and FAKE news factory in the world:

Pro-Indian 'fake websites targeted decision makers in Europe'

Fake sites and groups lobbying for India influenced decision makers in Europe, researchers say.

www.bbc.co.uk

EU NGO report uncovers Indian disinformation campaign

EU DisinfoLab’s report a ‘deep dive into a 15-year operation targeting the EU and UN to serve Indian interests’.

www.aljazeera.com

Is there any evidence from INDEPENDENT, GENUINE, RELIABLE, IRREFUTABLE and HONEST sources that confirm india has wiped out "extreme poverty?".

 

[Black Vigo]

I did not think that you, as an individual, were eligible for IMF intervention. What a surprise

Are you actually retarded or acting like one?

 

[Joe Shearer]

Are you actually retarded or acting like one?

Sit down, get a cold compress, guess.

Don't post till you've figured it out.

 

[Black Vigo]

Sit down, get a cold compress, guess.

Don't post till you've figured it out.

You didn’t really leave anything to guess to be honest your flag makes it evident already

 

[Joe Shearer]

You didn’t really leave anything to guess to be honest your flag makes it evident already

Oh, good. Sounds like your British bits have caught up, and we needn't worry about drivel happening for some time.

 

[khansaheeb]

India has almost wiped out extreme poverty: International Monetary Fund​

In India, the number of people living in extreme poverty -- defined by the World Bank as living on US$1.9 or less in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms -- was 0.8% of the population in the pre-pandemic year 2019, stated the IMF paper, published on April 5, 2022.

India has almost wiped out extreme poverty, says IMF(REUTERS)
Updated on Apr 07, 2022 05:40 PM IST

ByZia Haq
New Delhi: India has almost eradicated extreme poverty and brought down consumption inequality to its lowest levels in 40 years through state-provided food handouts, according to a new working paper published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The IMF working paper -- authored by economists Surjit Bhalla, Arvind Virmani and Karan Bhasin -- said that the proportion of people living in extreme poverty, at less than 1%, remained steady even during the pandemic on the back of “in-kind” subsidies, especially food rations.


The study comes at a time when several recent global reports have pointed to the widening gap between the rich and poor in Asia’s third-largest economy, while studies on the economic shocks of the Covid-19 pandemic vary in their conclusions.

In India, the number of people living in extreme poverty -- defined by the World Bank as living on US$1.9 or less in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms -- was 0.8% of the population in the pre-pandemic year 2019, stated the IMF paper, published on April 5, 2022.

Food rations were “instrumental” in ensuring that extreme poverty did not increase and “remained at that low level” in the pandemic year 2020, the study found. PPP is a metric that equalises the buying power of different currencies to make comparisons easy.
Our results also demonstrate the social safety net provided by the expansion of India’s food subsidy program absorbed a major part of the pandemic shock,” the authors stated. Such back-to-back low poverty rates suggest India has eliminated extreme poverty, they concluded.

Also read:

What sets their study apart, according to the authors, is the effect of subsidy adjustments on poverty. The results are “striking”, they said in the working paper. Food handouts curbed poverty by acting like “cash transfers”.

IMF states that its working papers describe research in progress, and are published to elicit comments.

Real (inflation-adjusted) inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, which stands at 0.294, is now very close to its lowest level 0.284 observed in 1993-94, the paper stated. The Gini coefficient ranges from 0 to 1, with 0 representing perfect equality and 1 representing perfect inequality.

The food subsidy is 5kg per person. In terms of a household, that would be about 25 kg a month. Now if you convert that into prices, that would come to about ₹750. This is not an insignificant amount for really poor households,” said Pronab Sen, former chief statistician of India.

“But I cannot imagine ₹750 changing the inequality part of it. Absolute poverty in terms of hunger…yes, but inequality is a different ballgame. ₹750 is just not enough to move the needle on inequality,” Sen added.

Also read: Why IMF praised PM Modi’s food security scheme during pandemic

Most previous studies and measures of poverty and inequality did not account for the role of food handouts, the paper’s authors noted. “These (new) estimates include, for the first time, the effect of in-kind food subsides on poverty and inequality,” the paper stated.

India has almost wiped out extreme poverty: International Monetary Fund

In India, the number of people living in extreme poverty -- defined by the World Bank as living on US$1.9 or less in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms -- was 0.8% of the population in the pre-pandemic year 2019, stated the IMF paper, published on April 5, 2022.

www.google.com

Slums of India tell a different stats:-

 

[GiantPanda]

Let's see, rampaging inflation and unemployment on top of 75 million pushed into poverty by Covid.

How do you reduce poverty when your poverty stricken population grew by 75M and you have no jobs and food is less affordable?

You can't -- unless they stopped counting the poor (may be they just died.)

Food prices likely pushed India inflation to 16-mth high in March: Reuters poll

India's retail inflation likely sped up to a 16-month high of 6.35% in March, well above the Reserve Bank of India's upper tolerance band for a third straight month, in part due to a sustained rise in food prices, a Reuters poll found.

www.reuters.com

In 2021, India's Urban Unemployment Rose to 12.6% in 2nd Qtr From 9.3% in 1st

The figure had however come down from the unemployment rate of 20.8 percent in the April-June quarter in 2020, when the first wave of COVID-19 was at its peak.

www.thequint.com

youth unemployment: Youth unemployment in urban India rose to 26% in Q1 FY21 - The Economic Times Video | ET Now

According to the latest data released by Govt, youth unemployment in urban areas across India spiked to nearly 26% during April to June quarter in 2021. Avni Raja breaks down this data. Listen in.

m.economictimes.com

Covid pandemic pushes 75 million more people into poverty in India, study shows

That number for India accounts for nearly 60% of the global increase in poverty in 2020, an analysis by Pew Research Center showed.

www.cnbc.com

 

[GumNaam]

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india's idea of wiping out extreme poverty is to wipe out the extremely impoverished!