

But these were present even as previous growth spurts lifted millions out of poverty. There are plenty of problems with India’s economy, from poor primary education to an inability to grow its limited manufacturing sector. Many people have given up looking: labour-force participation rates have fallen since the pandemic. cmie surveys suggest the unemployment rate is also higher, averaging more than 7% over the past two years.

Take-up for a rural-employment programme, which guarantees low-wage work to participants, remains above pre-covid levels. Labour-market data also bely India’s impressive headline growth figures.

Rural food costs have risen by 28% since 2019 onion prices by an eye-watering 51%. Poor families, for whom food makes up 60% of household expenditure, have felt the strongest pinch. Since then inflation has further eroded purchasing power: real wages in rural areas, where most of the poor live, have stagnated, and annual inflation jumped to 6.5% in January. The World Bank estimates shutdowns pushed 56m Indians into extreme poverty. The recovery from the pandemic, when harsh lockdowns whacked the economy, has been horribly slow. According to a survey of 44,000 households by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy ( cmie), a research outfit, only 6% of India’s poorest households-those bringing in less than 100,000 rupees ($1,200) a year-believe their families are better off than a year ago. These suggest poverty reduction has stalled, and maybe even reversed. Thus assessments and inferences must be made using other surveys and data sets, such as vehicle sales. Ministers have not published a poverty estimate in more than a decade. The problem is that answering the question is fraught with difficulty. Mike Snider of USA Today contributed to this report.Not many questions are more central to Indian politics than the wellbeing of the country’s everyman. So, who wouldn't want to drink a world-class craft beer while making a difference to someone in need?’’

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