The other India story
Welcome to the Babel of numbers. Till last week, every third person in the world living on an income of less than a dollar a day, was an Indian. This week, the World Bank announced a new measure of poverty. Now anyone living with an income of under $1.25 (Rs 55) per day was poor. By this measure again, every third person living under the poverty line was an Indian.
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