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From poverty to empowerment: India’s imperative for jobs, growth, and effective basic services [1]

India has made encouraging progress by halving its official poverty rate, from 45 percent of the population in 1994 to 22 percent in 2012. This is an achievement to be celebrated—yet it also gives the nation an opportunity to set higher aspirations.

[2]While the official poverty line counts only those living in the most abject conditions, even a cursory scan of India’s human-development indicators suggests more widespread deprivation. Above and beyond the goal of eradicating extreme poverty, India can address these issues and create a new national vision for helping more than half a billion people attain a more economically empowered life.

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Publication Date: 
01/02/2014
McKinsey Global Institute [15]
Tags:
Poverty [16], Consumption Patterns [17], Food Security [18], Education [19], Health Care [20], Drinking Water [21], Sanitation [22], Services [23], Subsidies [24], Anti-Poverty Programmes [25], Rural Poverty [26], Agriculture [27], Infrastructure Development [28], Land Acquisition Act 2013 [29], Workers [30], Unemployment [31], National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) [32]

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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/poverty-empowerment-india%E2%80%99s-imperative-jobs-growth-and-effective-basic-services
[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/poverty to empowerment.pdf
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[5] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/388024/mgnrega-wage-rates-wef-01-04-14/
[6] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/387190/millennium-development-goals-india-country-report-2014/
[7] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/387331/employment-and-unemployment-situation-in-india-july-2011-june-2012/
[8] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/381622/report-of-the-committee-for-evolving-a-composite-development-index-of-states-raghuram-rajan-panel-report/
[9] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/384081/india-rural-development-report-2012-13/
[10] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/379386/implementation-of-mahatma-gandhi-national-rural-employment-guarantee-act-2005-standing-committee-on-rural-development-2012-13/
[11] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/national-food-security-bill-2013-1
[12] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/introducing-conditional-cash-transfers-india-proposal-five-ccts
[13] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/388002/interim-budget-2014-15-full-text-of-speech-by-p-chidambaram-minister-of-finance/
[14] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/search/?q=poverty+agriculture
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/mckinsey-global-institute
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[17] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/consumption-patterns
[18] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security
[19] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/education
[20] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-care
[21] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/drinking-water
[22] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sanitation
[23] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/services
[24] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/subsidies
[25] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/anti-poverty-programmes
[26] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rural-poverty
[27] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[28] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/infrastructure-development
[29] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-acquisition-act-2013
[30] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/workers
[31] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/unemployment
[32] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/national-rural-employment-guarantee-act-nrega