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India likely to halve poverty rate by 2015: U.N. report [1]

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: India is expected to reduce its poverty rate from 51 per cent in 1990 to 24 per cent in 2015, slashing the number of extremely poor by 188 million. But progress in the rest of South Asia is not sufficient to halve the level of poverty by that target date, according to a United Nations report on the Millennium Development Goals for 2010.

Publication Date: 
24/06/2010
Hindu (New Delhi) [2]
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Economy [3], Economic Development [4], Poverty [5], UN [6], India [7], Hindu (New Delhi) [2]

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