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The Moving Bar Of Poverty Statistics [1]

Ahead of the much-awaited Suresh Tendulkar committee report on poverty estimation, another committee appointed by the rural development ministry has come out with its report. The committee, headed by N.C. Saxena, says that the percentage of rural population below the poverty line (BPL) could be as high as 50 per cent

Publication Date: 
05/10/2009
Kandula Subramaniam [2]
Business World (Kolkata) [3]
Tags:
Poverty [4], Ministry Of Rural Development [5], Rural Poverty [6]

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