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Poverty elimination is often noted as a core policy objective in India as well as globally. If poverty elimination “alone” is used to measure success (as was stated in the Cabinet Secretariat press note while constituting NITI Aayog.), then India’s report card on poverty is dismal. Despite rapid economic growth and improvement on a range of development indicators, a large proportion of India’s population continues to suffer extreme poverty in multiple dimensions.
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As was stated in the Cabinet Secretariat press note while constituting NITI Aayog.
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Available at http://nsap.nic.in/Guidelines/nsap_guidelines_oct2014.pdf accessed 16th April 2018.
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http://nsap.nic.in/ (accessed 16th April 2018).
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See Government of India (2016).
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See http://secc.gov.in/stateSummaryReport. Accessed 19th May 2018.
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Mehta, A.K., Bhide, S. (2018). Conclusions. In: Mehta, A., Bhide, S., Kumar, A., Shah, A. (eds) Poverty, Chronic Poverty and Poverty Dynamics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0677-8_9
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