{"id":52758,"date":"2015-01-26T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=52758"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:26:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:26:11","slug":"odds-of-escaping-poverty-in-india-u-s-same-world-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/01\/odds-of-escaping-poverty-in-india-u-s-same-world-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds of Escaping Poverty in India, U.S. Same: World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"india<\/a>21 Jan 2015 – <\/em>A World Bank report has challenged the conventional understanding of India\u2019s inequality. The report, \u201cAddressing inequality in South Asia,\u201d has found that the probability of a poor person moving out of poverty in India in 2014 was as good as that in the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is good news \u2014 India is no longer the land of extremes and there are some bright spots,\u201d said Martin Rama, one of the authors of the report and World Bank Chief Economist for South Asia.<\/p>\n

The report has found that sons from Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe households are no longer stuck in the jobs done by their fathers. Across generations, mobility of occupational profiles among Muslims has been similar to that of higher caste Hindus, whereas mobility among Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes has become higher than that of upper caste Hindus over time.<\/p>\n

The report shows that one of the main drivers of upward mobility is the increase in number of non-farm jobs in rural India.<\/p>\n

Urbanisation reducing inequality: World Bank report<\/strong><\/p>\n

A World Bank report has found that between 2004-05 and 2009-10, 15 per cent of India\u2019s population, or 40 per cent of the poor, moved above the poverty line. In the same period, a sizeable portion of the poor and the vulnerable \u2014 over 9 per cent of the total population or about 11 per cent of the poor and vulnerable \u2014 moved into the middle class.<\/p>\n

However, over 9 per cent of the total population, or about 14 per cent of the non-poor group, slipped back into poverty, revealing the greater risks faced by the vulnerable and even the middle class than in other countries, the report, \u201cAddressing inequality in South Asia,\u201d said.<\/p>\n

The third finding of the report that challenges the conventional understanding of inequality in India, said Onno Ruhl, World Bank Country Director in India, is that urbanisation is reducing inequality, not increasing it.<\/p>\n

Mr. Ruhl said the policy takeaways from the report for Prime Minister Narendra Modi included \u201cstrive for universal health and sanitation; leverage the opportunity for urbanisation; and create jobs for all and build skills not just through technical training but also with servicing the population with primary and secondary education and nutrition.\u201d<\/p>\n

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