Poverty in India down by 27 per cent: UN
Riding on the better social indicators like health and primary education, India has achieved an over 27 per cent decline in poverty and is well on track to meet the target set for 2015, according to the United Nations. Even as it painted a bleak outlook for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for the World , the UN in its annual report on Thursday said India had made significant inroads into the health and primary education sectors.
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