Growth and inclusion

That growth is the best antidote to poverty has been well established from the results of successive National Sample Surveys, including the last one for 2011-12. The Planning Commission has used this data to show that the rate of poverty decline between 2004-05 and 2011-12 was almost three times more than that between 1993-94 and 2004-05. The fact that the Indian economy grew by an average 8.3 per cent a year over the latter period, as against 6.2 per cent from 1993-94 to 2004-05, played no small part here.

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