Author name: Peter Schulte

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Street in India

India’s poverty rate drops below 1%

After decades of concerted efforts, the 2045 UNDP Multdimensional Poverty Index shows that India has finally achieved a near-complete elimination of poverty across the massive South Asian nation. As recently as 2014, India accounted for 33% of the entire world’s population living in extreme poverty.