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THE evidence is piling up that without a dramatic change of course the economy will sink deeper into a quagmire that takes us all to a very bad place. The latest in the parade of grim numbers is a revelation by the Planning Commission that the number of people living below the poverty line has surged since 2018. Since 2001, these numbers had been declining, sometimes slowly, other times rapidly. But for the first time in nearly a quarter century, we have seen them rise, from 21.9 per cent of ...
26 Feb, 04:09 — 26 Feb, 04:09
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