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Japan's Child Poverty Hits Record High: Survey
Japan's child poverty rate has hit a record high, according to a government survey, prompting criticism that Tokyo wasn't doing enough to fix the problem.
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Controversy over claim of 22% fall in poverty: your 10-point cheatsheet
The Planning Commission's declaration that the number of poor in India has fallen to 22% of the population in the last seven years has evoked strong protests from the opposition and from an important ally, Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party or NCP.
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Planning Commission's Rs 28/day poverty line figure to be reviewed: Prime Minister
After the government faced flak over the Planning Commission's latest poverty estimates, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said a government panel would devise new methods to assess poverty in the country as the issue needs a multi-layered approach.
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Planning Commission faces flak, blames data discrepancy for low poverty line
Facing flak over latest poverty numbers, the Planning Commission today admitted that there is serious discrepancy in NSSO data and national accounts which led to pegging poverty line at Rs 28.65 per capita daily consumption in cities.
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Japan's Child Poverty Hits Record High: Survey
Japan's child poverty rate has hit a record high, according to a government survey, prompting criticism that Tokyo wasn't doing enough to fix the problem.
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Controversy over claim of 22% fall in poverty: your 10-point cheatsheet
The Planning Commission's declaration that the number of poor in India has fallen to 22% of the population in the last seven years has evoked strong protests from the opposition and from an important ally, Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party or NCP.
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Planning Commission's Rs 28/day poverty line figure to be reviewed: Prime Minister
After the government faced flak over the Planning Commission's latest poverty estimates, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said a government panel would devise new methods to assess poverty in the country as the issue needs a multi-layered approach.
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Planning Commission faces flak, blames data discrepancy for low poverty line
Facing flak over latest poverty numbers, the Planning Commission today admitted that there is serious discrepancy in NSSO data and national accounts which led to pegging poverty line at Rs 28.65 per capita daily consumption in cities.
