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Subir Gokarn
By Subir Gokarn - Mar 08,2014
As India gears up for its general election next month, it has some cause to celebrate: extreme poverty is finally in retreat.
In 2012 — two decades after the government launched a series of economic reforms aimed at opening up the economy — the official poverty rate