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India's poverty rate may 'fall' to 24% by 2015

India's poverty rate may 'fall' to 24% by 2015

Rediff.com23 Jun 2010

The global financial crisis has hit the realisation of Millennium Development Goals hard with loss of employment and food inflation slowing down the progress and an additional 64 million people expected to be thrown into extreme poverty by 2010-end relative to a no-crisis scenario.