Did poverty fall miraculously between 2009-10 and 2011-12?

The Planning Commission’s ridiculously low threshold for computing poverty has drawn a lot of criticism and there is undoubtedly an unholy desire to put a political spin on the reduction in the poverty numbers. But, as the planners point out, even if a higher cut-off point for the poverty line is drawn, “while the absolute levels of poverty would be higher, the rate of decline would be similar”.

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