World underestimates India's achievements in reducing extreme poverty: Brookings Institution
"World Data Lab anticipates the effects of these methodological adjustments will result in a level of extreme poverty in India today of 50 million people, which will come down to 40 million (a poverty rate of below 3 percent ) by end 2019," the report said.
Brookings Institution has said the world may have underestimated India's achievements in reducing extreme poverty at a fast pace, Image source: PTI