Extreme poverty in India declined by 12.3 percentage points during 2011-19: World Bank
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A working paper of the World Bank, co-authored by economists Sutirtha Sinha Roy and Roy van der Weide, stated that the extreme poverty in India declined by 12.3 percentage points between 2011 and 2019, with rural areas doing better than urban centres. The paper highlighted that India has not released a new household consumption survey since the NSS from 2011.
