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India has a historic opportunity to lift its remaining 400 million poor people out of poverty and ensure that the sizeable numbers who have recently escaped poverty are not vulnerable to falling back.
The World Bank Group’s new Country Partnership Strategy will guide its support to India from 2013 through 2017. The strategy aims to help the country lay the foundations for achieving its longer-term vision of “faster, more inclusive growth.”
A key feature of the new strategy is the significant shift in support toward low-income states, where many of India’s poor and disadvantaged live.