Sundaram said that the Report unveiled that poverty in the state has come down from 9.7 to 6.92 per cent by nearly 2.8 per cent in the same period. This, according to Sundar, was indicated in the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) of the survey report statistics.
A popular catchphrase during Sri Lanka’s recent protest movement was that the country has hardly achieved any progress since its Independence 74 years ago
The importance of the GKI, based on 133 variables, is that it provides a summary measure for tracking the knowledge performance of countries in seven broad areas ~ pre-university education, technical vocational education and training, higher education, research, development and innovation, information and communications technology, economy, and the general enabling environment.
Life expectancy of Indians at birth in 2019 was 69.7 years while Bangladesh has a life expectancy of 72.6 years and Pakistan 67.3 years, the 2020 Human Development Report said.
One key source of inequality within countries is the gap in opportunities, achievements and empowerment between women and men.
