Old handicapped man carry food tied to the crutch in a busy road on July 28,2013 in Hyderabad,AP,India.

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Poverty in India is widespread,which is measured using differnt methods. The official measure of Indian government, before 2005, was based on food security. Since 2005, Indian government adopted the Tendulkar methodology which moved away from calorie anchor to a basket of goods and used rural, urban and regional minimum expenditure per capita necessary to survive. The World Bank has similarly revised its definition and benchmarks to measure poverty since 1990, with $ per day income on purchasing power parity basis as the definition in use from 2005 to 2013.

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Location: Ujjaini Temple Road,Secunderabad,Hyderabad,AP,India
Photo credit: © R RAMANA REDDY BATTULA / Alamy / Afripics
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