Mains Focus POVERTY FELL SIGNIFICANTLY LAST YEAR. MUCH OF IT WAS DRIVEN BY GDP GROWTH "India has entered 2025 with poverty in single digits for the first time since Independence and a visibly flatter consumption distribution. Two consecutive rounds of the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES 2022-23 & 2023-24) as well as the World Bank Poverty & Equity Brief and the National Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) provide the empirical bedrock for this claim." https://blog.lukmaanias.com/2025/06/02/poverty-fell-significantly-last-year-much-of-it-was-driven-by-gdp-growth/ ..