New Delhi:The United Nations denoted a ‘historic change’ in India, recording a stark fall in the number of poor people in the country. As per the international agency, the number of poor people declined by nearly 415 million between the years 2005-2006 and 2019-2021. Moreover, a demonstration that the Sustainable Development Goal goals of reducing at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty by 2030 is feasible and even at large scale, as per the UN.
On Monday, a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) was released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford said that in India 415 million people came out of destitution between 2005-2006 and 2019-2021.
It demonstrates that “Sustainable Development Goal target 1.2 of reducing at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions, according to national definitions, by 2030 is possible to achieve, and at scale,” it said.
