Poverty in India: Reasons, Responses, COVID Update
Pew Research Center, using World Bank data, has estimated that the number of poor in India (with income of $2 per day or less in purchasing power parity) has more than doubled from 60 million to 134 million in just a year because the pandemic-induced recession. This means India is back in a situation to be called a “country of mass poverty” after 45 years.