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Tanay Sukumar
@TanaySukumar
Editor (Data) @LiveMint | #MintPlainFacts #MintCharts | Most of my pastimes revolve around words, numbers, maps & calendars
Jul 19, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Did 13.5 crore Indians really exit "poverty" in 5 yrs as some of the reporting around Niti Aayog data suggests?

No — and this needs some unpacking.

Four things we need to know:

1. This has nothing to do with any "resilience" of India's poor during the pandemic because... Image ... the data is based on NFHS 2019-21, for which survey fieldwork was complete in 22 of the 36 states/UTs by Feb 2020.

2. It's 'multidimensional' poverty (more on that in my explainer today), NOT poverty.

It's only a *complement* to poverty data, as Niti Aayog itself says.