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It's not nonsense, but it does depend on the specific definitions of "extreme poverty" as a technical term. What remains is an awful lot of mere "poverty" that
by jfengel 3y ago
It's not nonsense, but it does depend on the specific definitions of "extreme poverty" as a technical term. What remains is an awful lot of mere "poverty" that anybody in Europe or the US would consider very, very extreme.
Part of the article is arguing for changing those definitions, though even revised definitions will still seem extreme to anybody in a wealthier country.
But the article also points out that improvements are being made. And it credits redistributive policies for those improvements.
- araes 3y agoThis tends be my view on the article. If you read far enough, its pretty obvious there's still a lot of "high poverty". Although the article title is extreme sounding, is seems like its mostly making the argument that India needs to shift focus on the "poverty scale." And there's the "it's relative" issue, that mostly Americans and Europeans would look at India, and it would not even equate with "poverty." The article is talking about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty "international extreme poverty" definition which is: "you survive on $1.90/day".