Inclusiveness in Poverty Reduction in India: A Great Leap Forward?

Abstract

Copyright: © 2015 Thomas S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The growth story of Indian Economy has been significant in the recent years. But in terms of poverty reduction India is lagging behind and it has lot more to do. India’s performance is dismal with regard to the Multidimensional Poverty Index introduced by UNDP in its Human Development Report 2010. This is an attempt to evaluate the findings of the expert groups on the measurement of poverty and to analyse how far we have achieved our target of inclusiveness in poverty reduction.