This chapter investigates how household income, income inequality, and poverty among urban residents in China have … growing more rapidly. The trend whereby fewer persons in urban China have incomes that are lower than the poverty line … continued. This also applied to the number of people falling below the relative poverty line. …

We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We ….75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates indicate that 144 million people were lifted from poverty during …. Our state-level estimates reveal that 20 states report less than 10 per cent headcount poverty, up from six states. COVID …