High growth, steep poverty fall

Rapid GDP growth is the best antidote for poverty. That is the big message that comes blaring out of the poverty data for 2009-10. Record GDP growth of 8.5% per year between 2004-05 and 2009-10 has reduced poverty at a record rate of 1.5 percentage points per year, double the 0.7 percentage points per year in the preceding 11 years. There can be no better refutation of the leftist myth that fast growth has benefited only a small rich coterie while bypassing the poor.

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