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Nearly 27 crore people lifted out of extreme poverty in India over 11 years, says World Bank report
India has made remarkable progress in reducing extreme poverty, with 269 million people moving out of it between 2011-12 and 2022-23. According to the latest World Bank data, extreme poverty rate dropped significantly from 27.1 percent in 2011-12 to just 5.3 percent in 2022-23. In 2011-12, ar...