415 MILLION INDIANS CAME OUT OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY IN 15 YEARS, SAYS UNDP STUDY

Question 1

A total of 415 million people moved out of poverty in India within just 15 years from …………… the United Natons (UN) said on July 11

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2005/2006 to
2019/2021,

Question 2

global Multdimensional Poverty Index (MPI) was released by

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United
Natons Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development
Initatve (OPHI) at the University of Oxford.

Question 3

……….. countries, including India, successfully halved their global MPI values within 15
years, showing that rapid progress is atainable.

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25 countries

include Cambodia, China,
Congo, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Serbia, and Vietnam.

Question 4

……………India surpassed China to become the world’s most populous naton with 142.86 crore
people, according to UN data

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in april 2023

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india signnificant reduction in poverty

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with
incidence falling from 55.1% in 2005/2006 to 16.4% in 2019/2021

Question 6

According to the 2023 release, 1.1 billion out of 6.1 billion people (just more than 18%) live in
acute multdimensional poverty across 110 countries. Sub-Saharan Africa (534 million) and
South Asia (389 million) are home to approximately five out of every six poor people

Question 7

three dimensions of the report -

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education
health
standard of living

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first launched in

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2010

Question 9

• The MPI monitors deprivatons in……….indicators spanning health, educaton and standard of
  living and includes both incidence as well as intensity of poverty

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10