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India’s poverty challenge stretches from UP to Bengal

India has sharply reduced extreme poverty, but hardship remains concentrated in parts of the north and east. The World Bank says about 57 percent of the country’s poor live in a connected belt from Uttar Pradesh to West Bengal.
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