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Poverty removal - growth offers the only way out

Each time estimates of poverty are put out, you find the usual suspects—Opposition leaders and the nice gentile civil society types—pointing to how fictitious they are. If even a dozen bananas of indifferent quality cost over R50 in tony Gulmohar Park in south Delhi where I live, the argument goes, how can the poor even live—given the Tendulkar poverty line is R33 a day for urban areas and R27 for rural ones, what do the poor spend on rent, on medicine, on clothes…?

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