Business Standard / New Delhi August 21, 2008, 5:46 IST The Planning Commission's announcement that it is changing the definition of poverty from the current criterion, based predominantly on the daily calorific intake, to a much broader concept of "deprivation' is to be welcomed. For several years now, the persistence of such a minimalist criterion for poverty has flown in the face of the widely-held view that "development' is a multi-dimensional process, and that its success or failure can simply not be judged by changes in a particular indicator. The usual counter to this is that the